Brad has dedicated much of the past two years to the updating and expansion of the 2nd edition of Volume 1 of his Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands & Beyond book series.
Now that it’s finished, he invites all Tucsonans and visitors to the desert to come help him celebrate its completion and release, hear his latest talk that reflects the new & classic content of this new edition—integrated design; guiding principles to harvest free resources such as water, wind, sun, shade, and community; what the water-energy-carbon nexus is and what it has to do with you—and see a simple but epiphany-inspiring demonstration outside on the plaza on the core whys and hows of water harvesting. Copies of the new edition will be available for sale & signing!
Brad’s hope is that you’ll walk away afterwards with new ideas and inspiration to simultaneously enhance the vibrant quality of all our lives, our community, our economy, and our environment!
WHEN:
Saturday, July 27, 2013
11 am – 1 pm
WHERE:
Pima County Public Library
Main Downtown Branch
101 N Stone Ave
Tucson AZ 85701
COST:
Free!
DETAILS ABOUT BRAD’S TALK
Integrated Local Harvests: Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World
This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enhance free local resources—such as rain-, grey-, and stormwaters; sun, wind, and shade; and 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 shade, feeding the soil, sailing with the wind, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!
I will cover all the above and more in an entertaining and informative way. I’ll show folks myriad ways we can simultaneously enhance the quality of all our lives, our community, our economy, and our environment. I’ll show folks how we can all enhance more vibrant life.
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT HIS BOOK
“This book’s simple techniques (and the principles behind them) can help you save bunches of money, and make the landscape around you more productive and beautiful, with less work and upkeep than you can imagine.”
—Kevin Dahl, former Executive Director of Native Seeds/SEARCH and author of Native Harvest: Gardening with Authentic Southwestern Crops
“This wonderful book overflows with effective ways to beneficially cycle and enhance local water supplies, while maximizing free power from the sun.”
—Sandra Postel, founding director, Global Water Policy Project; Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic Society
“This is an important book about using rainfall as the primary driver in creating and restoring landscapes for agriculture and communities. It is ecological design at its best.”
—John Todd, Ph.D., Research Professor and Distinguished Lecturer; President, Ocean Arks International