Date: Friday, October 7, 2011
Time: 7-8:30 pm
Location: Token Creek Eco-Inn
Address: 3919 Gray Rd, DeForest/Windsor WI (off Hwy 51 north of Madison)
Cost: Free for registrants of the next day’s workshop
$20 for all others
Brad will be giving his much-lauded general water-harvesting talk (description below) and his books will be available for sale and signing after the talk.
Turning Drains Into Sponges and Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance
This inspiring power point 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.
Please contact Kate Heiber-Cobb of Sustainability On Stilts for more details &/or to register for the October 8 workshop: seventhheaven@mailbag.com or call Kate at (608) 213-2230 with questions.