This event is co-hosted by Daily Acts and OAEC’s WATER Institute, and co-sponsored by the Sonoma County Water Agency and Wyatt Irrigation Co., local partners in water conservation. Learn about Wyatt’s Million Gallon Challenge—an initiative to help our community save a million gallons this growing season.
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2014
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Venue: Activity Room at Petaluma Community Center—Lucchessi Park
Address: 320 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma CA 94954
Cost: $10 (but no one turned away for lack of funds)
Purchase advance tickets here.
Brad’s books will be available at the talk for sale & signing.
Talk & description:
Brad will share the stage with Brock Dolman and Trathen Heckman, the directors of both hosting organizations, who will root the solutions presented with local context and pathways for application right here at home before Brad gives his full-length talk:
Integrated Solutions for Drought:
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!