Thank you to La Loma Development & The Shed for making this event possible.
Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Time: 6–9 pm
Venue: The Shed @ La Loma Development
Address: 1355 Lincoln Ave, Pasadena CA 91103
Requested contribution: $10 at the door
Brad will have his books on hand for sale & signing.
RSVP to info@theshedpasadena.com
Melanie Winter (6:30 pm):
Water L.A.: Urban Acupuncture for Climate Resiliency
For the past two years, The River Project has been piloting “Water LA” in the San Fernando Valley under a grant from the Coastal Conservancy. Working in collaboration with dozens of residents, sister non-profits, and half a dozen City agencies, they’ve developed consistent guidance for homeowners on how to Capture, Conserve and Reuse water on their own properties. From streamlining and reducing permit fees for greywater systems, to bringing the Tucson-style parkway retrofit to Los Angeles, the project aims to clear away numerous bureaucratic, financial, and social obstacles preventing us from making the meaningful adaptations that climate change requires.                                             
Brad’s talk (7 pm):
Integrated Local Harvests:
Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Natural Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World
This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enliven free local resources—such as rain-, grey-, and stormwaters; sun, wind, and shade; along with soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun—in a way that generates far more potential than the sum of their parts. Scarcity is re-visioned into abundance simply through creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. Costly and consuming habits and infrastructure, disconnected from their surroundings, are reoriented and reconnected to maximize enriching opportunities.
You’ll see many examples of such transformation, including how once-dying wetlands and creek flows are being regenerated with simple hand-built structures made of on-site materials; how ancient sun- and shade-harvesting sites are informing passively heated, cooled, and powered modern homes and retrofits; and how once-blighted, overheated neighborhood streets are being rejuvenated into thriving greenbelts of water, people, wildlife, art, food, and celebration by planting once-drained stormwater, seed, and yard prunings.
This talk is both an invitation for you to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and community, and a treasure map showing you the way—by planting the rain, dancing with the sun, growing fertile shade, and more to live as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!
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