Tijuana Innovadora 2016: November 3–10, 2016

Brad’s presentation date: November 10, 2016
Time: 11 am–noon
Venue: World Trade Center, Sala Veracruz
Address: Paseo del Parque #18025, Zona Río Tercera Etapa, Tijuana, Baja California, CP 22654
Water Harvesting & Native Plants in Urban Environments
Overpaved, drain-like urban environments eject precious local resources such as rainwater, creating the ‘need’ to import water from afar. This creates liabilities such as flooding, water shortages, pollution, and hotter temperatures paired with higher energy consumption. But we can create sponge-like urban environments that harvest resources such as rainwater, stormwater, greywater, and condensate as close to their sources as possible. In so doing, we turn would-be liabilities into assets such as street orchards that control flooding and produce native food; more resilient and more numerous water resources; living filters of soil, water, and air; and temperature-reducing, energy-conserving and -producing oases for native plants and wildlife. Examples, from small- to large-scale, from ancient to contemporary, from the Middle East and around the world, will be presented.
Cost for Brad’s talk: MX$250
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