BOOK SIGNING  TOUR& SLIDE SHOW TOUR Little House on a Small Planet with author Shay Salomon and Book Photographer Nigel Valdez  Jan 17 / Feb 8 2007 San Diego to Arcata CA .Tour

Shay Salomon  will be selling her book and giving a Slide Show/Talk . Below is a list of locations for the tour below .
Hear Shay interviewed Fri Jan 10, 9-10am & Mon Jan13 9-10am  Radio Interview Sustainable world Radio www.kcsb.org 91.9 FM Santa Barbara


SANTA BARBARA PERMACULTURE NETWORK
Presents:

Little House on a Small Planet

Slide Show & Booksigning Tour in California with
Shay Salomon and Photographer Nigel Valdez

         Live in less space but have more room and enjoy it.  Does that sound like a contradiction? Smart readers will discover that on the contrary, living small can free up your mind, your wallet, and your soul.  With the cost of living rising, the environment suffering from excessive building, now is time to scale back.  Join the small house movement.

        In Shay Salomon's newly published book, with a foreward by Francis Moore Lappe, Little House on a Small Planet ( www.littlehouseonasmallplanet.com) is a guidebook and an invitation, with floor plans, photographs, advice, and anecdotes. Discover how to build, remodel, redecorate, or just rethink your needs.  Live close and simple and apply spiritual and social needs to your material desires. Pockets of people all over the continent are realizing the benefits of scaling down. You too can build a joyful, sane life that emphasizes home life over home maintenance.

        Little House is split into three sections; building small houses, altering existing
houses, and the politics of housing and lifestyle choices. The book is informative and hopeful, even empowering.  Salomon takes a refreshing approach, instead of focusing intently on the problem of current housing trends, she provides the data needed to understand them, then spends her energy on drawing out solutions that each one of us can choose to follow  through on.

        In fact, the politics of housing is a theme threaded throughout the entire book.
Reading news coverage after Hurricane Katrina, Salomon learned that in Houston, where many of the refugees were headed, 14% of all housing units (homes, apartments, duplexes, etc) were vacant. Salomon did some research on how this compares to the rest of the country. She found that in the year 2000 there were 10.4 million vacant units and 250,000 people sleeping in homeless shelters. This meant there were nearly 45 homes that were completely empty per person sleeping in shelters. Salomon asks, "How is it that we have a housing crisis? Maybe a homing crisis, or a sharing crisis, but this isn't a housing crisis. "

        Shay Salomon is a carpenter and construction manager who coaches owner-builders towards a mortgage-free life.  She has taught at least a hundred courses in carpentry, straw bale building, solar design, and women’s building courses.  A cofounder with Greg Johnson, Jay Shafer, and Nigel Valdez of the Small House Society ( www.smallhousesociety.org), she wrote Little House on the Small Planet , which chronicles the small house movement and offers advice to people who want to improve their life by living in far less space. The photographer for Little House, Nigel Valdez, chose pictures of real people on average days in their little houses. Nothing appears staged. People are relaxing with their kids, their feet up on the coffee table, or shaving in the bathtub, which happens to be in the kitchen. Shay Salomon and Nigel  Valdez have worked on this project for 7 years.

        The Santa Barbara Permaculture Network sponsors the event.  For more information please call (805) 962-2571, or email margie@sbpermaculture.org,  www.sbpermaculture.org.

Quotes about Housing from the book:

“The Union of Concerned Scientists ranks housing third among destructive human enterprises, just after transportation and agriculture.  But our housing need not be destructive.  Again we can chose !  We can chose human scale, enhancing our connections with those we love. We can chose eco-scale, reducing our demand for the kind of energy that is disrupting life now and for future generations.”

“Construction has some alarming effects on the environment.  Forty percent of all the raw materials humans consume, we use in construction.  Building an average house adds seven tons of waste to the landfill!  New house construction is arguably the single greatest threat to endangered species, even in areas where human population is on the decline, animals and plants are threatened each day, due to the construction of new houses. Might our houses feel more comfortable if they weren't so destructive.”

“Throughout North America building has been influenced by "green thinking", and houses have improved, but despite major advances in insulation and design, the typical house built today requires as much energy to heat and cool as one built in 1960. Why? Because it's bigger. House size and location are the greatest determinants of a home's effect on the environment.  The challenge is to build a single family housing as efficient as a New York City apartment, which, on average uses a fraction of the energy of a typical detached house.”

Tour organizers
For Updates on Tour contact Santa Barbara Permaculture Network margie@sbpermaculture.org www.sbpermaculture.org 805-962-257  also check Shay Salomon Website  www.littlehouseonasmallplanet.com

SCHEDULE TOUR DATES  LITTLE HOUSE SMALL PLANET BOOK TOUR  Jan 17-Feb 8, 2007

Jan 12 Fri 9-10am & Mon Jan13 9-10am  Radio Interview Sustainable world Radio www.kcsb.org 91.9 FM Santa Barbara with Shay Salomon

Jan 17 Wed 7:30 pm .San Diego World Beat Cultural Center, 2100 Park Blvd 
contact sdecc@igc.org (619) 255-6111 San Diego Permaculture Center & SDECC www.sdecc.igc.org

Jan 18 Thurs 7pm? Laguna Beach Bill Roley Bill Roley drroley@cox.net 949-413-2524 cell (still waiting for details)

Jan 19  Fri 6:30 ­ 9 pm San Juan Capistrano
Center for Universal Truth 27121 Calle Arroyo Ste. 2200, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 949-481-4040
Cost: $25 for Organic Dinner and Slideshowor $5 for Slideshow only (begins at 7:30
Contact "Deanna Moore" <moodea@wildmail.com> (949) 981-8067

Jan 20 Sat 10am Los Angeles David Kohn  Audubon Center at Debs Park:
4700 North Griffin Ave.Los Angeles, CA 90031 (323) 221-2255
Sustainable Los Angeles Lecture Series!
Special Two Part Lecture and presentation:
Free Urban Permaculture Design Course followed by Talk and Slide Show Presentation:
"LITTLE HOUSE ON A SMALL PLANET Talk and Slide Show with
author Shay Salomon & Photographer Nigel Valdez
Contact David Kahn <info@sustainablehabitats.org> 1-323-667-1330

Jan 21 Sun 8pm LA Ecovillage, 117 Bimini Place, Los Angeles 90004 (1 block east of Vermont just south of 1st St)  ,Lois Arkin crsp@igc.org 213/738-1254 $10 (sliding scale okay)

Jan 22 Mon 7:45  Santa Barbara Public Library 40 East Anapumu St Donation $5 
Contact margie@sbpermaculture.org 805-962-2571 www.sbpermaculture.org


Jan 23 Tues 7:30 pm Ventura Tues April 25 Art Barn 856 East Thompson Blvd., Downtown Ventura (between Ash and Kalorama, behind Kids & Families Together) contact lynne okun <lbokun@earthlink.net> 805-338-2576. Donation $5

Jan 24 Wed 1pm U.C.of Santa Barbara campus talk David Cleveland 805-893-7502/2968
cleveland@es.ucsb.edu

Jan 24 Wed 6:30pm Solvang Library 1745 Mission Drive Solvang, CA 93463 (805) 688-4214.Donation $5-$10  Betty Seaman cobbetty@gmail.com, 805-698-3840

Jan25  Thurs 6:30-8:30  San Luis Obispo  Public Library 995 Palm Street
Mikel Robertson gouldmund@hotmail.com 805 674 5534

Jan 26 Fri 7pm Santa Cruz Louden Nelson Center 301 Center St. at Laurel St
Contact claudine desiree <claudinedesiree@yahoo.com> (831)423-5204. Donation $5-$10

Jan 27/28 Sat/Sun Oakland/Berkeley/SF Raines Cohen <rainesc@gmail.com> (planning talks on Sat and Sun)

Jan 29 Mon 7pm  Santa Rosa  New College 99 6th Street Santa Rosa.
Contact dbaker@newcollege.edu 707 568-2605

Jan 30 Tues Hopland 1pm - 3 pm Booksigning REAL GOODS SOLAR LIVING CENTER
Contact Solar Living Institute Kevin Pile Kevin.pile@solarliving.org 707.744.2017

Jan 30 Tues 7pm Hopland American Legion Hall 110 Feliz Creek Creek
Contact Solar Living Institute Kevin Pile Kevin.pile@solarliving.org 707.744.2017 www.solarliving.org

Jan 31 Wed Arcata ? (still in planning) Humboldt  University,  Campus Center for Appropriate Technology  contact CCAT Tatton tattonw@hotmail.com 1-707-826-3551

Feb 1  Thurs East Bay evening "Sergio Lub" <sergio@sergiolub.com>1-925-229-3600 ex 100
Friendly Favors( private invitation only event)
Cosponsored  Institute of Noetic Sciences and Gaia University Network

Feb 2  Fri evening Sacramento (still in planning stages)

Feb 3 Sat. Truckee CA (still in planning stages)

Feb 4 Sun Nevada City, 7pm  Helling Library Community Room 950 Maidu Avenue
Contact for info: Janaia Donaldson Yuba Gals Independent Media
janaia2004@yubagals.com 530-265-4244

Feb 6 Tues Pt Reyes 5:30 -6:30pm  Radio Show with   Jonathan Rowe Live interview with Shay
KWMR, 90.5 FM Pt Reyes and 89.3 FM Bolinas West Marin Community Radio


Feb 8, Thurs 7 - 8:30pm Builders Booksource 1817 Fourth Street (Near Hearst)
Berkeley, CA 94710  510-845-6874 service@buildersbooksource.com

END OF TOUR