Permaculture Now! is very excited to present an evening with Brad Lancaster:
Turning Drains Into Sponges and Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance.
Date: Friday, August 7, 2009
Time: 7 – 8:30 pm
Address: Greenlake YogaLife Studio, 7200 Woodlawn Ave NE, Seattle WA 98115
Suggested Donation: $10 at the door
Contact: Jenny Pell, (206) 949-0496
Please invite your friends, neighbors, extended email networks, and especially your local city public utilities officials, city council members, and other interested parties.
This inspiring and timely 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.