[Scpg] Aug 28 , Thurs 7pm Ojai CA Brad Lancaster Author Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond:Vol 2, Water-Harvesting Earthworks,

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Aug 28 ,Thurs 7pm, 414 E. Ojai Ave., Ojai school district Chaparral 
Auditorium next to park & ride.
Asking $2 donation;
Contact Deborah Pendrey: 805-649-8631/805-311-4348 or 
coordinator at ojaivalleygreencoalition.com; 
www.ojaivalleygreencoalition.org, Sponsored by Ojai Valley Green Coalition


ABOUT HIS NEWLY PUBLISHED BOOK AND CALIFORNIA BOOKSIGNING TOUR AUG 
28-SEPT 21 2008
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond:Vol 2, Water-Harvesting 
Earthworks,

=Get out your shovels and dance in the rain! That is what Brad 
Lancaster's second volume in his trilogy on Rainwater Harvesting will 
make you want to do.

Join Brad Lancaster , as he shares his experiences traveling the 
world learning about harvesting rainwater---with simple landforms and 
earthworks---in places like India, Peru, Mexico, Africa and 
the  United States, where impoverished landscapes are turned into 
oases of life.

Harvesting rainwater was once a worldwide technology, but was 
replaced by pipes, canals, and sprinklers---inefficient and wasteful 
strategies that are running dry. In his newly published book 
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond:Vol 2, Water-Harvesting 
Earthworks, Brad Lancaster shares techniques for designing landscapes 
that passively harvest water using brilliant, low-tech, regenerative 
systems to hydrate the land and maximize the benefit that water 
brings to plants, animals and people.

Water has been identified as a global crisis in the making. Southern 
California has one of the most piped landscapes ever designed, 
relying on water from far away that may not be available in the 
future.  Brad's book encourages individuals and government agencies 
to redesign landscapes to live sustainably in their 
watersheds.  Earthworks, using
shovels to large earth moving equipment, can be the foundation 
strategy for sustainable landscapes.

         Brad Lancaster is a permaculture teacher, designer, 
consultant and co-founder of Desert Harvesters 
(DesertHarvesters.org). Living on an eighth of an acre in downtown 
Tucson, Arizona, where rainfall is lessthan 12 inches annually, Brad 
practices what he preaches by harvesting over 100,000 gallons of 
rainwater a year. Brad has taught programs for the ECOSA Institute, 
Columbia University, University of Arizona, Prescott College, Audubon 
Expeditions, and many others. He has helped design integrated water 
harvesting and permaculture systems for homeowners and gardeners, 
including the Tucson Audubon Simpson Farm restoration site, the 
Milagro and Stone Curves co-housing projects.

Tour Organizer Santa Barbara Permaculture Network contact Wes Roe 
wes at sbpermaculture.org , Schedule at Upcoming events www.sbpermaculture.org
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