Greenbuild 2009 Residential Summit

Building on last year’s success in Boston, the Greenbuild Residential Summit is a unique event that brings together leaders in the residential green building industry for two days of information sessions, networking, and sharing of best practices.

This year’s multi-day Summit will feature targeted educational tracks, covering topics from affordable housing to large-scale multi-family development, in addition to two inspiring keynote sessions.

We hope to see you there!

Brad will be speaking at a Residential Summit Educational Session on Thursday, November 12, at 10 am.

Visit the Greenbuild website for more information or to register.

Tennessee Carbon Farming Intensive

Broadacre Permaculture & Holistic Management for
Carbon Negative Agriculture

Exploring Soil, Water, Carbon, Energy & the Economy
through a 6-part holistic curriculum

August 25 – September 16, 2009

Ecovillage Training Center at the Farm
in Summertown, TN

www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Carbon_Farming_09.html

Including

Holistic Management, Advanced Permaculture Design, Keyline Design & Implementation, Soil Food Web, Rainwater Harvesting, Carbon-Farming, Food Forest Gardening, Energy, Economy Relocalization, and Much More.

Context

The Tennessee Carbon Farming Course will be the first in a national campaign to spread this cutting edge curriculum throughout the United States. The Ecovillage Training Center at the Farm offers an amazing opportunity to experience permaculture in action; the Farm’s 1,700 acres will undergo a massive keyline design and implementation during and after the course to help drought-proof the community and prepare for future growing.

Course Description

Taught by the leading experts in sustainable agriculture and carbon sequestration, this course will encompass all of the design elements needed to create a carbon sequestering agricultural system—returning carbon to the soil while increasing food production. This course will cover holistic landscape systems design, project management, and implementation.

Purpose

Studies have shown that permaculture-inspired soil building techniques lead to significant carbon sequestration, while also increasing soil fertility and water retention. This course will provide participants with an opportunity to learn these techniques in order to create resilient, drought proof, soil-rich, carbon-negative agricultural systems that produce organic food as well as additional income through the international carbon market.

Format

This course will be offered through six interrelated modules constituting the nation’s first holistic curriculum for carbon negative agriculture.  Participants can choose to attend the entire course or individual modules and/or combined selections based on their specific interests.

Modules

Module 1 - 8/25-30: Holistic Management®: with Kirk Gadzia
Module 2 - 9/1-6: Keyline Design Course: with Darren Doherty
Module 3 – 9/8-11: Regenerative Earthworks & Food Forestry: with Brad Lancaster & Eric Toensmeier
Module 4 – 9/13-16: Soil Food Web & Pathways to Relocalisation: with Dr. Elaine Ingham & Joel Salatin
Module 5 - 9/14-15: Regenerative Food Forestry: with Eric Toensmeier

For more information, visit:
www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Carbon_Farming_09.html

Watershed Management Group is offering a series of classes in a wide range of water-related topics. Information for the sessions Brad is teaching is listed below.

If you have questions or would like information on the other class sessions, contact WMG.

Level 1
Sunday, July 19th: 5-8pm. Site Assessment for Greywater System (site TBD)
Saturday, July 25th: 7-11am. Greywater System Install
Saturday, July 25th: evening hours. Open time available to finish installation of system if needed

Level 2
Tuesday, August 11th: 2-4pm. Integrated Design Lecture
Tuesday, August 11th: 4-6pm. Blackwater (KRD) System Site Assessment (Lisa & Catlow’s house)
Thursday, August 14th: 7am-12pm. Blackwater System Installation

Watershed Management Group is offering a series of classes in a wide range of water-related topics. Information for the sessions Brad is teaching is listed below.

If you have questions or would like information on the other class sessions, contact WMG.

Level 1
Sunday, July 19th: 5-8pm. Site Assessment for Greywater System (site TBD)
Saturday, July 25th: 7-11am. Greywater System Install
Saturday, July 25th: evening hours. Open time available to finish installation of system if needed

Level 2
Tuesday, August 11th: 2-4pm. Integrated Design Lecture
Tuesday, August 11th: 4-6pm. Blackwater (KRD) System Site Assessment (Lisa & Catlow’s house)
Thursday, August 14th: 7am-12pm. Blackwater System Installation

Watershed Management Group is offering a series of classes in a wide range of water-related topics. Information for the sessions Brad is teaching is listed below.

If you have questions or would like information on the other class sessions, contact WMG.

Level 1
Sunday, July 19th: 5-8pm. Site Assessment for Greywater System (site TBD)
Saturday, July 25th: 7-11am. Greywater System Install
Saturday, July 25th: evening hours. Open time available to finish installation of system if needed

Level 2
Tuesday, August 11th: 2-4pm. Integrated Design Lecture
Tuesday, August 11th: 4-6pm. Blackwater (KRD) System Site Assessment (Lisa & Catlow’s house)
Thursday, August 14th: 7am-12pm. Blackwater System Installation

Watershed Management Group is offering a series of classes in a wide range of water-related topics. Information for the sessions Brad is teaching is listed below.

If you have questions or would like information on the other class sessions, contact WMG.

Level 1
Sunday, July 19th: 5-8pm. Site Assessment for Greywater System (site TBD)
Saturday, July 25th: 7-11am. Greywater System Install
Saturday, July 25th: evening hours. Open time available to finish installation of system if needed

Level 2
Tuesday, August 11th: 2-4pm. Integrated Design Lecture
Tuesday, August 11th: 4-6pm. Blackwater (KRD) System Site Assessment (Lisa & Catlow’s house)
Thursday, August 14th: 7am-12pm. Blackwater System Installation

Saturday, September 19, 2009
du Bois Conference Center
on the Northern Arizona University campus
Flagstaff, Arizona

Brad Lancaster will give a keynote presentation at 1pm on Turning Water Scarcity to Water Abundance with Integrated Water Harvesting

September 12 – 13, 2009
Decatur, Georgia
http://www.arcsa.org/workshop.html

September 14-16, 2009
Holiday Inn Decatur Conference Center
Decatur, Georgia
http://www.arcsa.org/2009conference.html

Six Weekends, May to October, 2009
Brad Lancaster will be teaching with Toby Hemenway August 8 and 9, 2009
For more info, email Carrie Niskanen
and see Toby’s site www.patternliteracy.com