[Scpg] REMINDER: Eco Design Series- Part 3:Solar Design for Home & Garden this Saturday 10 am to 4 pm]

Thu Jun 11 05:56:24 PDT 2009

FRIENDLY REMINDER...

Spring 2009
Hand-on Ecological Design Series in Downtown Santa Barbara

Part 3 - Solar Design for Home & Garden
Guest Speaker: Shawn Jacobson, Solar Energy Consultant and Designer
Saturday June 13
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
1611 Olive Street

Explore solar energy in a whole new light. This class will cover 
solar applications for homes including passive solar heating, 
Photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation, solar greenhouses and more, 
as well as how to design a garden in relationship to the sun. 
Students will participate in lecture, discussion and hands-on 
exercises to illustrate solar energ flows and simple techniques for 
solar heating, cooking, and cooling, as well as small scale 
applications and principles of PV integration.

with Leif H. Skogberg (more information below)
Donations Only (suggested $25, not required :))

Please bring a lunch for yourself, and/or a potluck dish to share. Thank you!

Background and Context:

Join us Saturday June 13 with Solar Design for Home & Garden as we 
continue to evolve a beautiful 1/3-acre downtown Santa Barbara lot 
into a model of urban sustainability using permaculture and 
ecological design as our guide.

Part 1 - Water Harvesting Earthworks on Saturday April 12th, was a 
great success and was an absolutely earth-moving fun day. With the 
initial earthworks completed, we were ready to take some serious soil 
building, living sponge creating, fertility enhancing steps.

Part 2 - Building Healthy Soil on Saturday May 30th, covered basic 
soil components as well as various strategies for improving and 
enriching soil fertility, including: composting, vermicomposting, 
sheet mulching, cover cropping and more. We moved 10 cubic yards of 
compost, made a demonstration compost, and got some mulch spread too.

Now Part 3 - Solar Design for Home & Garden will launch into the 
Element of Fire utilizing Permaculture design science and other 
eco-design principles to maximize the beneficial use of solar 
radiation wherever possible on our site. This course will cover basic 
laws of nature (with regards to solar radiation), solar/fire sector 
analysis, onsite solar design applications and solar electricity. To 
ensure dirty hands we will also plant a tree or two.

Guest speaker joining us this weekend is professional solar energy 
system designer, project manager and educator Shawn Jacobson who will 
be, quite literally, sharing his tool bag for solar design (with some 
really cool techy gadgets) while also covering basic principles of 
solar electric design, generation, transmission and storage. We hope 
you can join us under the oaks during lecture and in the garden for a 
Saturday full of fun in the sun!

More Design Course Series Details:

Part 3 - Solar Design for Home & Garden
Guest Speaker: Shawn Jacobson, Solar Energy Consultant and Designer
Saturday June 13
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
1611 Olive Street

Explore solar energy in a whole new light. This class will cover 
solar applications for homes including Photovoltaic (PV), passive 
solar and solar greenhouses, as well as how to design a garden in 
relationship to the sun. Students will participate in lecture, 
discussion and hands-on exercises to illustrate simple techniques for 
solar heating, cooking, and cooling, as well as small scale 
applications and principles of PV integration.

Part 4 - Natural Material & Construction
Guest Speaker: TBA
Saturday June 27
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
1611 Olive Street

Discover your innate building skills working with natural material 
and age-old technologies, used in modern applications. Learn how to 
create healthy indoor environments using all natural non-toxic 
material like wood, clay, sand and straw. This course will focus on 
simple techniques for using natural material like cob, straw bale and 
light-clay straw to retrofit existing structures to be more energy 
efficient, have improved indoor air quality and enhanced aesthetics.

Advanced registration is requested. Thank you! :)

For more information or registration, email: 
<mailto:LeifSkogberg at gmail.com>LeifSkogberg at gmail.com, or call (805) 
886-6251

About Instructor:

Leif H. Skogberg

Ecological educator & designer, Leif H. Skogberg has been immersed in 
organic gardening, composting, natural building, permaculture and 
ecological systems design for nearly a decade. Certified in 
Permaculture Design, Green Gardening & Sustainable Landscape 
Operations, Leif has degrees in Environmental Horticulture Science 
and Liberal Arts from Santa Barbara City College.

As a student, Leif Co-founded & Chaired the SBCC Student 
Sustainability Coalition, during which time he led several successful 
student led efforts to institutional sustainability at SBCC, 
including; a campus sustainability assessments; an ecological 
footprint analysis of the campus; an eight week Adult Education 
lecture series entitled "Creating a Sustainable Future: Ecology, 
Ethics & Design"; environmentally preferable purchasing; improved 
campus recycling; and more. He also assisted with the creation and 
framing of the course "Projects in Sustainability" and the SBCC 
Center for Sustainability.

During this time as a student and activist, Leif also led numerous 
Natural Building workshops while design building a small "mud hut" 
out of all natural and recycled material near downtown Santa Barbara. 
Leif currently works full-time for the City of Santa Barbara as a 
Recycling Educator/Coordinator, while also providing independent 
environmental design consulting services on the side.

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