Date: Saturday, April 9, 2011
Symposium hours: 8 am – 2 pm (click here for detailed agenda)
Brad’s Keynote: 9:15 – 10:15 am with Q&A  from 10:15 – 10:45 am. Book sales & signing to follow.

Event: Master Gardeners of San Luis Obispo County’s Sustainable Landscape Symposium
Venue: Paso Robles Culinary Institute
Address: 1900 Golden Hill Rd, Paso Robles CA 93446
Title of Brad’s Keynote:
Turning Drains Into Sponges, Rain Into Beer, Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance, and Urban Drool Into Urban Renewal
Description: This inspiring power point presentation shares eight universal principles of water harvesting along with simple strategies that turn water scarcity into water abundance. They empower you to create integrated water-sustainable landscape plans at home and throughout your community. Rainwater harvesting is the process of capturing rain and making the most of it as close as possible to where it falls. Greywater harvesting is the process of directing water from household sink, bathtub, shower, and washing machine drains into the soils of the landscape where the water is naturally filtered and reused to generate more on-site resources. The two work hand in hand, and can reduce our water consumption by 30 to 50%! You’ll see examples enhancing local food security, converting rainfall into rain beer, passively cooling cities in summer, reducing costs of living and energy consumption, making the best of urban drool, controlling erosion, averting flooding, reviving dead waterways, minimizing water pollution, building community, creating celebration, and more.
For more information about the Master Gardeners of San Luis Obispo County, click here.