[Sdpg] “THE BIG PICTURE-Moving Toward Sustainable Building and Development " Lecture and Slide Show with David Eisenberg Thursday, April 15, 7pm Santa Barbara and SLO

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

contact:
Margie Bushman/Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
e-mail sbpcnet at silcom.com
(805) 962-2571

"THE BIG PICTURE-Moving Toward Sustainable Building and Development"
                                         Lecture and Slide Show  with David 
Eisenberg
                                         Thursday, April 15, 7pm
                         Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery

ALSO                          Friday , April 16  7pm San Luis Obispo
                                     Ludwick Community Center 864 Santa 
Rosa Rd
                                      (Parking on Mill)

           In an entertaining and thought-provoking presentation---The Big 
Picture-Moving Toward Sustainable Building & Development---alternative 
buildings materials pioneer and author David Eisenberg will explore the 
larger context for design, development, and regulation as the need for 
dramatic change in all human systems becomes ever more obvious. From the 
use of alternative building materials and appropriate technology to issues 
of national security and the health of our communities, the talk weaves 
together many critical ideas, developing the foundation for a new set of 
criteria for all of our decision making processes.

         David Eisenberg co-authored the Straw Bale House, and is the 
co-director of the Development Center for Appropriate Technology 
(www.dcat.net). He has over twenty years of construction experience, 
including troubleshooting construction of the steel and glass cover of 
Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona; building a $2 million structural concrete 
house; a hypo-allergenic structural steel house, and building masonry, 
wood, adobe, rammed earth, and straw bale structures. He currently leads a 
broad-based collaborative effort "Building Sustainability into the Codes," 
with the goal of creating a sustainable context for building regulation. He 
is Vice-Chair of the ASTM E-06.71 Subcommittee on sustainability for 
buildings, where he leads a task group developing ASTM standards for 
low-environmental impact building materials and methods of construction 
such as earthen building systems. He is a member of the Board of Directors 
of the US Green Building council, serves on the Advisory Boards of 
Environmental Building News and Natural Home Magazine, and is a member of 
the Tucson/Pima county Joint Building Code Committee. He helped write the 
first load bearing straw bale construction building code for the City of 
Tucson and Pima county 
Arizona.
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Eisenberg is international lecturer and speaker on a wide range of topics 
and has presented at dozens of conferences and lectured at Arizona State 
University, University of Arizona, City College of New York, Oberlin 
College, University of Nebraska, Hannover University and the Bauhaus 
University (Germany).
           The talk will be held on Thursday April 15 at 7pm, at the 
downtown Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu St. 
A $7 donation is requested, no reservations are required.  For more 
information please call (805) 962-2571, or go to www.sbpermaculture.org. 
The event is sponsored by by The CALIFORNIA STRAW BUILDING ASSOCIATION 
(CASBA), The Sustainability Project and the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network.



Also CASBA would like to announce the following:

THE CALIFORNIA STRAW BUILDING ASSOCIATION is pleased to announce its 
Spring, 2004 Conference. This gathering will take place April 16, 17,18 at 
the Matilija Hot Springs in Ojai, California. Informative speakers, 
presentations and discussion groups will create a weekend of sharing and 
learning covering the entire spectrum of the Straw Building industry.
For more information to register  www.strawbuilding.org


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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571
sbpcnet at silcom.com
www.sbpermaculture.org

"We are like trees, we must create new leaves, in new directions, in order 
to grow." - Anonymous