[Scpg] REMINDER: Eco Design Course - Part 4: Natural Materials and Construction this Saturday 10 am to 4 pm Santa Barbara

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

>FRIENDLY REMINDER...
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>Spring 2009
>Hand-on Ecological Design Course in Downtown Santa Barbara
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>with Leif H. Skogberg and local guest speakers
>Donations Only  (suggested donation is $25, but not required)
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>Please bring a lunch for yourself, and/or a potluck dish to share, 
>if possible.
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>Part 4 - Natural Material & Construction
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>Saturday June 27
>10:00 am - 4:00 pm
>1611 Olive Street
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>Discover your innate building skills working with natural material 
>and age-old technologies, used in modern applications. Learn how to 
>create healthy indoor environments using all natural non-toxic 
>material like wood, clay, sand and straw. This course will focus on 
>simple techniques for using natural material like cob, straw bale 
>and light-clay straw to retrofit existing structures to be more 
>energy efficient, have improved indoor air quality and enhanced 
>aesthetics.  Please be prepared to get muddy!  :)
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>Please RSVP.  Thank you!
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>For more information or registration, email: 
><mailto:LeifSkogberg at gmail.com>LeifSkogberg at gmail.com, or call (805) 
>886-6251
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>Instructor Bio:
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>Leif H. Skogberg
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>Ecological educator & designer, Leif H. Skogberg has been practicing 
>organic gardening, composting, natural building, permaculture and 
>ecological design for nearly a decade. Certified in Permaculture 
>Design, Green Gardening & Sustainable Landscape Operations, Leif has 
>degrees in Environmental Horticulture Science and Liberal Arts from 
>Santa Barbara City College.
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>As a student, Leif Co-founded & Chaired the SBCC Student 
>Sustainability Coalition, during which time he led several 
>successful student led efforts to promote and institutionalize 
>sustainability at SBCC, including; a campus sustainability 
>assessments; a campus ecological footprint analysis; an eight week 
>Adult Education lecture series entitled "Creating a Sustainable 
>Future: Ecology, Ethics & Design"; green purchasing practices; 
>expanded campus recycling programs; and more.  Leif also assisted 
>with the creation of the class "Projects in Sustainability" as well 
>as the SBCC Center for Sustainability. 
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>During this time as a student and activist, he led several dozen 
>natural building workshops during the process of design building a 
>small "mud meditation hut" out of all natural and recycled material 
>near downtown Santa Barbara.  Leif has consulted on several natural 
>building projects in Santa Barbara and California, as well as one in 
>New Mexico. Leif currently works full-time for the City of Santa 
>Barbara as a Recycling Educator while providing independent 
>environmental design consulting services on the side.
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