Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011
Time: 10 am – noon
Location: Laguna Beach City Hall
Address: 505 Forest Avenue, Laguna Beach CA 92651
Cost: Free
Brad will give his presentation Water Harvesting to Turn Drains Into Sponges and Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance:
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, passively cooling cities in summer, reducing costs of living and energy consumption, controlling erosion, averting flooding, reviving dead waterways, minimizing water pollution, building community, creating celebration, and more.
Afterward Brad will answer questions and sell and sign copies of his award-winning books from the Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond series.
For more information on either event or to register for the workshop later in the afternoon, contact Elise at (949) 285-1473 or yarrow68@gmail.com.
This talk and the workshop to follow are sponsored by:
SEEDS Art and Education, a non-profit that supports arts and education programs to promote stewardship of the land, such as organic gardening, environmental awareness, and conservation, and
Transition Laguna Beach, whose mission is to offer a positive approach in supporting the community toward sustainability and resilience.