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Brad Lancaster: Public Talk: Simple & E ffective Ways to Enhance the Natural Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World, February 10, 2014 — San Francisco CA
February 10, 2014 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
WHO & WHAT: Brad Lancaster shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enliven free local resources-such as rain, grey, and storm water, sun, wind, and shade, along with soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun – in a way that generates more potential than the sum of their parts. Scarcity is re-visioned into abundance through creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. This presentation covers simple, manageable, small site projects.
PRESENTED BY: Bay-Friendly Landscaping & Gardening Coalition
DATES: Monday, February 10, 2014
TIME: 6:30–9:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Hall of Flowers In Golden Gate Park, 9th Avenue @ Lincoln Ave, San Francisco
COST: Register by 2/7/2014 and the cost is $15 for Bay-Friendly members, and $20 for non-members.
After 2/7/14, the cost is $20 for Bay-Friendly members, and $25 for non-members.
TO REGISTER: Please click here to visit the registration portal
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This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enliven free local resources—such as rain-, grey-, and stormwaters; sun, wind, and shade; along with 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.