Sustainable World Radio: Friday mornings at 9:00-10:00 am PST on KCSB 91.9 FM in Santa Barbara, California and streaming live on www.kcsb.org. Also found on  www.sustainableworldradio.com, or www.radio4all.net later in the week..

        Join Jill Cloutier of Sustainable World Radio Fri. April 4 , 9am ,  interview with Brock Dolman permaculturalist, biologists and director of the Water Institute www.oaec.org/water-institute. Brock was a keynote speaker at the 9th International Permaculture Conference in May 16-18, 2007, in São Paulo, Brazil www.ipc9.org . He was part of the movie the 11th Hour narrated by Leonardo DiCapario wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/
        Also Adam Green will be on the program to talk about the launch of programs for the Santa Barbara City College Center for Sustainability "Environmental, Education, Science & Nature : Green Jobs Green Living".www.sustainability.sbcc.edu   Adam is the Environmental Studies Program Coordinator and Director of the Center for Sustainability. (see upcoming programs in April with Brock below )

Brock's Bio
Brock Dolman is a biologist, innovative design consultant, and
nationally recognized permaculture educator, having co-instructed 28
two-week permaculture design certificate (PDC's) courses. He is a
co-founder of both the Sowing Circle LLC intentional community and the
widely acclaimed Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC).www.oaec.org

He has extensive experience in irrigation, uplands and riparian
watershed management, natural building, wildlife biology, native plant
botany, organic agriculture, perennial polyculture, sustainable
forestry, seed saving, wildlands biodiversity preservation, school
garden teacher training and school garden installation, alternative
energy systems, consensus community and participatory social organizing
methodologies. He is founder of OAEC's Basins of Relations four-day
residential watershed training, which has resulted in the formation of
27 community-based watershed groups in Northern and Central California.
He is on the appointed board of the Sonoma County Fish and Wildlife
Commission.

ARTICLE
From Eco-Farm Conference Report www.eco-farm.org Jan 2008  in Hopedance Mar/Apri 2008 www.hopedance.org/cms/content/view/482/107/ by Noah Smulker
..."Not by coincidence, a personal highlight of this year’s Eco-Farm was the Water Workshop with permaculturalist and director of the Water Institute www.oaec.org/water-institute , Brock Dolman.  The energetic workshop focused on the Water Institute’s recently released manual, “Basins of Relations: A Citizen’s Guide to Protecting and Restoring Our Watersheds” and not only illuminated the currently unstable condition of California’s highly centralized water supply system, but on the necessary adjustments we must make in order to promote local self-sufficiency and sustainability.  As Brock puts it, “The critical head-waters (human brain) are in need of an ego-restoration project” and the “lifeboat in this restorative journey is our watershed.”  Poetically, our society must engage in a “Reverential Rehydration Revolution,” by adjusting our development and water management patterns away from the “problem-causing system of: Pave it, Pipe it, Pollute it” to a “solution-based system of Slow it, Spread it, Sink it.” Hope lies in world-wide “water literacy” and establishing a water management commitment to the four R’s of “Conservation Hydrology: Receive, Release, Recharge, and Restore.”  As Brock likes to ask, “Do you know where your watershed is tonight?”


BROCK'S LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS SLO AND SANTA BARBARA CA

SAN LUIS OBISPO CA
April 9th, Wednesday; 6 - 9:30pm Basins of Relations: Thinking Like a Watershed
with Brock Dolman SLO Botanical Garden Mediterranean Pavilion
Sustainability Social: Dinner, Drink, Friends, Music & Sustainability!!
SLO Botanical Garden Mediterranean Pavilion
www.slobg.org (El Chorro Regional Park, across Hwy 1 from Cuesta 
College, between Morro Bay & SLO)
Sponsored SLO Green Build, HopeDance, SLB Surfrider, Santa Lucia Sierra Club
$10 Suggested Donation (all proceeds go towards further sustainability efforts within SLO County).
For details please call the Sierra Club at (805) 543-8717.

SANTA BARBARA ALL EVENTS FREE

Brock Dolman Permaculture Teacher Lectures and Intro to Permaculture Class April 10, 11, 12,13 Santa Barbara City College

April 10, 7pm  Basins of Relations: Thinking like a Watershed Lecture with Brock Dolman
Water is our most important resource yet we face issues of water shortage and run-off pollution, two problems that can become one
solution.
Fe Bland Auditorium, Business Communication Forum (BC Forum) Santa Barbara City College, West Campus 721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA

Friday April 11, 7pm  Introduction to Permaculture Lecture  with Brock Dolman
Fe Bland Auditorium, Business Communication Forum (BC Forum) Santa Barbara City College, West Campus 721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA
Permaculture seeks to meet basic human needs while regenerating and sustaining natural systems. It is a belief and design system rooted firmly in applied ecology, proven sustainable practice, and protracted observation of living systems that holds great promise as a solution to our environmental crises.

Intro Workshop to Permaculture
Saturday, April 12, Weekend Intro Class, SBCC, EBS 309  - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, April 13, Weekend Intro Class, SBCC,   EBS-309 - 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Santa Barbara City College City College East Campus   Earth Sciences Building

Check Santa Barbara Adult Education Class Schedule http://ce.sbcc.edu for Spring 2008 page 32 for details
Co sponsored by Santa Barbara City College Center for Sustainability www.sustainability.sbcc.edu and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network www.sbpermaculture.org