[Lapg] Rainwater Harvesting talk 7:30 PM tonight at L.A. Eco-Village

[Lois Arkin]

We just got the new books, and it looks great: lots of easily accessible 
info and very readable.
Lois

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Friday, September 14, 2012 at 7:30 pm at L.A. Eco-Village

Cleo Woelfle-Erskine gives a public talk on his new book:

Creating Rain Gardens

Learn how to collect rain to reuse in your front or backyard, and help 
keep pollutants out of the L.A. River and the ocean in the process.
Water conservation expert Cleo Woelfle-Erskine  will talk about his new 
book, Creating Rain Gardens, covering everything from rain
barrels to simple living roofs, permeable patios, and other low-tech 
affordable ways to save water in the garden. From Puget Sound to
the Kansas prairie to the Chesapeake bay, communities are installing 
thousands of rain gardens and rain cisterns as part of watershed
restoration projects. These integrated urban waterscapes can be an 
alternative expanding dams, desalination plants, and sewer systems.

Creating Rain Gardens walks gardeners through the process of building a 
rain garden, with step-by-step instructions for designing and
building swales, French drains, rain gardens, and ephemeral ponds—the 
building blocks of rain-harvesting gardens. From soil preparation,
planting, troubleshooting, and maintenance, to selecting palettes of 
water-loving plants that provide all-season interest and a habitat for 
wildlife,
Creating Rain Gardens covers everything a gardener needs to create a 
beautiful rain garden at home. Books will be available to purchase.

About Cleo
Cleo Woelfle-Erskine is a hydrologist, educator, and scholar of water. 
He co-founded the Greywater Guerrillas, and has led dozens of
community-based workshops on rainwater harvesting and greywater reuse 
across North America. His writing on dam removal, environmental
justice, and urban gardening has appeared in High Country News and Yes, 
among other magazines, and in the anthologies Urban Wilds and
Dam Nation. An avid gardener, Cleo is also pursuing a PhD in the Energy 
and Resources group at UC Berkeley where he is investigating how
  rainwater harvesting affects streamflow.

Reservations requested:  crsp at igc.org or 213/738-1254
Fee:  $5 to $10 (sliding scale) no one turned away for lack of funds.

ADDRESS:  117 Bimini Pl, Los Angeles 90004