BOOK SIGNING TOUR& SLIDE SHOW Brad Lancaster author Rainwater
Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1 Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into
Your Life
www.harvestingrainwater.com/
Turn Water Scarcity into Water Abundance! Welcome Rain Into Your
Life and Landscape. Join Brad Lancaster as he explains tools &
techniques for implementing sustainable water systems for your home,
landscape, and community, using onsite resources. Brad is a teacher,
designer, and consultant on the sustainable design system of permaculture
& integrated rainwater harvesting systems since 1993.
Brad will also be on hand to sell and sign copies of his new book
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1 – Guiding Principles to
Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape.
Tour organizers in California Santa Barbara
Permaculture Network
www.sbpermaculture.org
805-962-2571 ,another great cooperative effort of sharing skills, connections and resources also visit Brad's Website for updates on other Book Signing Locations during the year www.harvestingrainwater.com/
TOUR DATES 2006 CA, Apr 17 -Apr 30 2006
CALIFORNIA DATES (Donations $5-$10 each location)
Monday April 17 San Diego, 7pm New School Of Architecture & Design (619-235-4100) 1249 F St
San Diego, CA 92101
Contact Brennan Hubbell 619-702-1604 tresmilusos@yahoo.com and sdecc@igc.org (619) 298-8879
Tues April 18 Laguna Beach, 7 pm Wells Fargo Bank 260 Ocean Av Laguna Beach CA 92651
Bill Roley drroley@cox.net 949-413-2524 cell
Wed April 19 Santa Monica, 7pm Global Green USA's Green Building Resource
Center 2218 Main St, Santa Monica
LA Permaculture Camille camicimino@yahoo.com & Monica
gbrc@globalgreen.org 310.452.7677
Thurs April 20 Santa Barbara 7:30 , SB Downtown Library Faulkner Gallery (free) 40 East Anapumu st
margie@sbpermaculture.org 805-962-2571
Friday April 21 Los Olivos 7pm Grange Hall 2374 Alamo Pintado Avenue Los Olivos, CA 93441 Donation $5-$10
Betty Seaman cobbetty@gmail.com, 805-698-3840
Sat April 22 Workshop Santa ,Barbara Santa Barbara City College 10-2 with
Art Ludwig (free) see details below
Sat Apr 22 Ojai 7:30 Meiners Oak (near Ojai) Oak Grove School 220
W. Lomita Ave contact (805) 646-8236
Mon April 24 San Luis Obispo 6:30 -8:30 pm SLO Public Library 995 Palm Street
Mikel Robertson gouldmund@hotmail.com 805 674 5534
Tues April 25 Ventura 7pm Art Barn 856 East Thompson Blvd., Downtown Ventura (between Ash and Kalorama, behind Kids & Families Together) contact lynne okun <lbokun@earthlink.net>
Wed April 26 Los Angeles 7:30 pm LA Ecovillage, 117 Bimini Place, Los Angeles 90004 (1 block east of Vermont just south of 1st St) LA Permaculture Guild Camille camicimino@yahoo.com, >, Joan Stevens <joaniebird007@yahoo.com>
Friday April 28 San Juan Capistrano at 6:30 pm Dinner and Show
Center for Universal Truth 27121 Calle Arroyo Ste. 2200, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 www.centerfortruth.org
contact "Deanna Moore" <moodea@wildmail.com> (949) 981-8067
Sat April 29 Workshop, 10-2 pm,Pomona, Turning Water Scarcity into Water Abundance. Workshop
Center for Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona, 4105 West University Drive Pomona, CA 91768.
Wear work clothes. $25, no one turned away for lack of funds. Eric Humel <ehumel@gmail.com > (949) 632-7462
Sat April 29, 7 pm, slide show and book signing. Center for Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona, 4105 West University Drive Pomona, CA 91768. Eric Humel < ehumel@gmail.com> (949) 632-7462. (see details below)
Sun April 30 Idyllwild Scott Horton 951-659-5362.
<lasemillabesada@hotmail.com>
April 22, 10 AM-2 PM. Workshop Santa Barbara: Turning Water Scarcity into
Water Abundance
Rain harvesting guru Brad Lancaster will join local ecological systems
designer Art Ludwig (www.oasisdesign.net) to show how to actualize the potential of your
landscape and neighborhood for rain and greywater harvesting. Simple site
assessment tools for the home, plus multiple-use water-harvesting
earthworks, will be constructed in this hands-on event. Art and Brad will
also sign copies of their new books Rainwater Harvesting for Dry lands,
Volume 1, Water Storage, and "Branched Drain Greywater Systems." Santa
Barbara City College Earth and Biological Science Building, Room EAB 309,
Sat, April 22, 10 AM-2 PM. Wear work clothes. Free admission. Lunch
available for purchase.
Contact for complete tour info Santa Barbara Permaculture Network,
margie@sbpermaculture.org, or visit www.HarvestingRainwater.com &
www.sbpermaculture.org. 805-962-2571
Sat April 29 Workshop, 10-2 pm, Center for Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly
Pomona: Turning Water Scarcity into Water Abundance.
Rain harvesting guru Brad Lancaster will show how to actualize the potential of your
landscape and neighborhood for rain and greywater harvesting. Simple site
assessment tools for the home, plus multiple-use water-harvesting
earthworks, will be constructed in this hands-on event. Center for Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona, 4105 West University Drive
Pomona, CA 91768. Wear work clothes. $25, no one turned away for lack of funds. Eric Humel <ehumel@gmail.com > (949) 632-7462
The following presentation will be given at the preceding Arizona, New Mexico and California book tour stops:
Turning Water Scarcity into Water Abundance with Water Harvesting: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape
This is the inspiring story of how a poor dryland farmer and his family turned a wasteland into an oasis in the driest region of Zimbabwe by teaching themselves how to harvest the rain – and you can do the same where you live! Eight guiding principles of integrated water harvesting are demonstrated that can be replicated anywhere to help turn water scarcity into water abundance.
This story and its principles are presented in the context of how my community of Tucson, Arizona, like many across the globe, has taken the wasteful path of scarcity by rapidly depleting its water resources by dehydrating the landscapes of its watersheds. Yet, we can choose the stewardship path to abundance by rehydrating our landscapes through simple water harvesting. Mr. Zephaniah Phiri Maseko and his family – the Zimbabwean water harvesters – are our example and the principles are our guides.
Brad will also be on hand to sell and sign copies of his new book Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1 – Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape.
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands by Brad Lancaster
Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape Volume 1
www.harvestingrainwater.com/
Now Available!
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for
Drylands, Volume 1 is the core of the complete three-volume guide on how to
conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems
for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to access
your on-site resources (rainwater, greywater, topsoil, sun, plants, and
more), gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential,
and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated,
multi-functional, and water-sustainable water-harvesting landscape plan
specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 40 photos and 115 illustrations, this volume
helps bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow yourself
and your community with skills of self-reliance and cooperation, and create
living air conditioners of vegetation growing beauty, food, and wildlife
habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain into their
life and landscape will invite you to do the same!
Learn more about the book and see sample chapters.
Water harvesting and water cycling.
© 2005 Brad Lancaster and Joe Marshall
By using simple and inexpensive techniques the Lancaster household now harvests over 100,000 gallons of rainwater in an average year of rain (mostly in the soil and vegetation), while using less than 20,000 gallons of municipal water. Due to the low water use, Tucson Water has visited a number of times thinking the water meter was broken. All utility bills have dropped due to a landscape design incorporating passive winter heating and summer cooling to the point that the combined bills of gas, water, and electric do not exceed $35 per month. Turning scarcity into abundance then extends into the neighborhood with neighborhood-wide native, food-producing tree plantings and water-harvesting traffic calming strategies that double as flood control measures that beautify the neighborhood. It will all get you dancing when it rains and lessen the negative effects of drought!
Brad Lancaster’s bio
Brad Lancaster is the author of “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1 Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape” (www.HarvestingRainwater.com). In addition, he has been teaching the sustainable design system of permaculture and integrated rainwater harvesting systems, and running his own permaculture design, consultation, and education business since 1993. He has taught programs for the ECOSA Institute, Columbia University, University of Arizona, Prescott College, Audubon Expeditions, Berea College, Sonoran Permaculture Teaching Guild, Permaculture Drylands Institute, the Amphitheater School District, and others. He has designed water harvesting permaculture systems for Milagro Co-housing, Stone Curves Co-housing, Rio Development, Civano, and others. Brad and his brother have created, and live on, a thriving 1/8th of an acre urban permaculture site in downtown, Tucson Arizona. Within his neighborhood and beyond, Brad feeds his passion for community building and activism, resulting in the creation of the Dunbar/Spring Organic Community Garden, mini-nature park, BICAS (Bicycle Inter-Community Arts and Salvage), annual neighborhood native tree plantings, and the desert harvesters project (www.DesertHarvesters.org).
Sponsors Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, SBEEC/Santa Barbara City College Adult Educ/Spring Program
The Sustainability Project, the Sustainable Builders Council of SLO, LA Permaculture Guild,
Permaculture Institute of S.CA , San Diego Permaculture Center,Global Green USA's Green Building Resource Center.
Hopedance Media,San Diego Permaculture Center, Ojai Permaculture Guild, South Coast Permaculture Guild, Art Barn, LA Ecovillage