[Southern California Permaculture] Water L.A. & Brad Lancaster: Integrated Local Harvests, April 29, 2014 ­ Pasadena CA

[Margie Bushman, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

<http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/2014/04/15/brad-lancaster-integrated-local-harvests-talk-april-29-2014-pasadena-ca/>Water 
L.A. & Brad Lancaster: Integrated Local Harvests, April 29, 2014 ­ Pasadena CA

April 29, 2014
6:00 pmto9:00 pm



Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Time: 6–9 pm

Venue: The Shed @ La Loma Development
Address: 1355 Lincoln Ave, Pasadena CA 91103

Requested contribution: $10 at the door

Brad will have his 
<http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/books/>books on hand for sale & signing.

RSVP to <mailto:info at theshedpasadena.com>info at theshedpasadena.com

Melanie Winter (6:30 pm):
Water L.A.: Urban Acupuncture for Climate Resiliency
For the past two years, The River Project has 
been piloting “Water LA” in the San Fernando 
Valley under a grant from the Coastal 
Conservancy. Working in collaboration with dozens 
of residents, sister non-profits, and half a 
dozen City agencies, they’ve developed consistent 
guidance for homeowners on how to Capture, 
Conserve and Reuse water on their own properties. 
 From streamlining and reducing permit fees for 
greywater systems, to bringing the Tucson-style 
parkway retrofit to Los Angeles, the project aims 
to clear away numerous bureaucratic, financial, 
and social obstacles preventing us from making 
the meaningful adaptations that climate change 
requires.

Brad’s talk (7 pm):
Integrated Local Harvests:
Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Natural 
Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World

This dynamic presentation shares patterns and 
strategies to harvest, integrate, and enliven 
free local resources­such as rain-, grey-, and 
stormwaters; sun, wind, and shade; along with 
soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun­in 
a way that generates far more potential than the 
sum of their parts. Scarcity is re-visioned into 
abundance simply through creative cycling and 
utilization of what is already at hand. Costly 
and consuming habits and infrastructure, 
disconnected from their surroundings, are 
reoriented and reconnected to maximize enriching opportunities.

You’ll see many examples of such transformation, 
including how once-dying wetlands and creek flows 
are being regenerated with simple hand-built 
structures made of on-site materials; how ancient 
sun- and shade-harvesting sites are informing 
passively heated, cooled, and powered modern 
homes and retrofits; and how once-blighted, 
overheated neighborhood streets are being 
rejuvenated into thriving greenbelts of water, 
people, wildlife, art, food, and celebration by 
planting once-drained stormwater, seed, and yard prunings.

This talk is both an invitation for you to engage 
and partner with your natural surroundings and 
community, and a treasure map showing you the 
way­by planting the rain, dancing with the sun, 
growing fertile shade, and more to live as one of 
your community’s inspirational sparks!

See the event on <https://www.facebook.com/events/633072536787609/>Facebook.
Check out the 
<http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/BradLancaster.pdf>event 
flyer (please share/post if you’re so
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