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SUMMARY:Water Harvester: An Invitation to Abundance—free movie screening
DESCRIPTION:I’ll be at the screening along with director/producer David Fenster for a question and answer panel after the screening. \nI’ll also be signing my books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, which will be available for purchase at the event. \n  \nTo reserve a seat at the screening go to the event website here \n  \nAnd to view the film at your leisure\, view it here. \n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvester-an-invitation-to-abundance-free-movie-screening/
LOCATION:Tohono Chul Park\, Tucson\, AZ
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SUMMARY:7th Biennial Russian River-Friendly Landscaping Event
DESCRIPTION:7th Biennial Russian River-Friendly Landscaping Event\nJoin industry professionals to discuss practical practices to capture rainwater\, carbon\, and greater potential in urban landscapes. \n\nBy Russian River Watershed Association\n\n\n\nWhen:\nTue\, February 7\, 2023\, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST\n\n\nWhere:\nUtilities Field Operations 35 Stony Point Road Santa Rosa\, CALIFORNIA 95401\n\n\nMore info at:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/7th-biennial-russian-river-friendly-landscaping-event-tickets-498915759467\n\n\n\n\nDoors open at 7:30 AM  \nContinental breakfast will be provided. CEU Certificates are available upon request! \nOur Featured Speakers: \nBrad Lancaster (Keynote Speaker): Teacher\, Consultant\, Designer of regenerative systems\, and Author of the Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond book series \nObi Kaufmann: American Naturalist\, Author\, and Illustrator \nRebecca Burgess: Executive Director of Fibershed\, Board Chair of the Carbon Cycle Institute\, Author \nLocal Resources – Lightening talks \n\nIntegrating Locally Sourced Compost XINCI TAN\, ZERO WASTE SONOMA\nRussian River Rainwater Catchment Systems JESSICA POLLITZ\, SONOMA RCD\n\nWith Additional Special Guests Panel – Where the shovel meets the soil: Best Practical Practices \n\nConstruct and Maintain Garden Sink Landscapes\nBusiness Cases (Obstacles/Challenges and Opportunities to Maintaining Landscapes)
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/7th-biennial-russian-river-friendly-landscaping-event/
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SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Design Certification Course – Tucson\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:For more info on this Watershed Management Group course\, plus how to register see:\nhttps://watershedmg.org/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-spring-2023 \nBrad will teach the morning of March 7th\, and he will also offer a guided tour of his place and some of his neighborhood’s rain-irrigated native food forest work\, Sunday March 12th.\nSign up for the tour once it is posted on Brad’s Events page.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-course-tucson-arizona-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230311T100000
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SUMMARY:Sustainable Landscapes Expo - Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:Time:\n10am – 2pm \nLocation:\n4210 N. Campbell Ave.\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \n  \nBrad Lancaster will give the following two dynamic one hour-long presentations at the event with questions and answers afterward: \n  \n10:30 am to 11:30 am:\nPlanting the Rain to grow regenerative abundance: Water-harvesting principles and practices \n  \nNoon to 1pm:\nRe-hydrating and Re-enlivening Our Communities with Rain- (and greywater-) watered Home & Neighborhood Food Forestry \n  \nMore info in the link below… \nhttps://pimasmartscape.arizona.edu/sustainable-landscapes-expo \n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/sustainable-landscapes-expo-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230312T090000
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SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 9am – 11am\, Sunday\, March 12\, 2023 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $14 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \n  \nSOLD OUT\nNext tours will be November 19\, 2023 and March 10\, 2024\n(Though I may schedule others\, and I usually post tours—and start taking sign ups—a month before the tour on my Events page—so keep checking back)\n \n\n  \nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more! \nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,500 trees and hundreds of understory plants in the neighborhood\n• how a county grant helped pay for water-harvesting strategies harvesting over 1 million gallons of annual stormwater in and along the streets\n• how a neighborhood-organized Neighborhood Foresters program is training up the neighborhood to steward these features and is implementing more.\n• public art & other strategies reclaiming the commons for more life! \n  \nBrad will also be selling (at deep discount) & signing copies of the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books; and Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers. \n  \n  \nFor self-guided water tours in Tucson see: \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour/ \n  \n  \nHere is a video of a 2016 tour of my place (more evolutions have since occurred)…
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-block-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az-4/
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SUMMARY:Land & Water Restoration Workshop - Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:March 20-25\, 2023 \n  \nPlease join the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance (AVCA) and restoration experts Brad Lancaster\, Omar Ore-Giron\, and Kyle Thompson as we restore arroyos on the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge. Throughout the week\, we will: \n\nLearn about site assessment and design techniques applicable in rural and urban settings\nBuild rock & brush grade-control\, water harvesting\, & induced meandering structures (one-rock dams\, baffles\, etc.) in the Puertocito Wash\nMaintain existing structures at the Arroyo Hondo Wash using innovative rock and brush techniques\nConduct monitoring of stream morphology and vegetation\nWork in a system where roads\, tanks\, and arroyos are modified together to harvest rainwater\n\nPractitioners and volunteers are welcome for this free workshop any and all days from March 20-25. Camping is available on the Refuge. \n  \nHands-on land & water restoration workshop in Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge – SW Arizona \nThis is a great opportunity to get some hands-on experience with placement\, design\, and construction of water-harvesting erosion control and induced meandering structures in different sized arroyos to reconnect these downcut waterways with their floodplains for greater water spread and rehydration. In addition\, we’ll cover rolling dips—a strategy that diverts water off dirt roads where the water can do maximum good in the adjoining landscape. \nThese strategies work great in BOTH the urban and rural setting. If you aren’t familiar with them\, here is your opportunity to change that. Every water harvesting practitioner should know when and where to use these structures and how to effectively hybridize them when appropriate. \n  \nTo see similar projects in Altar Valley\, along with before and after photos see here. \n  \nFor more information\, please contact Julia Guglielmo\, AVCA Conservation & Science Director\, at julia@altarvalleyconservation.org. \nMore info & to register see link below \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/buenos-aires-national-wildlife-refuge-restoration-workshop-tickets-554283796757
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/land-water-restoration-workshop-buenos-aires-wildlife-refuge-arizona/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230429T070000
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SUMMARY:Hands-on cholla bud harvesting\, processing\, eating\, & planting workshop - Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:The cholla cactus flower buds just started blooming in our neighborhood this week\, so its time to harvest some (but not all)! \nCome join us as we harvest cholla flower buds from neighborhood-grown staghorn cholla cactus\, then process and enjoy the delicious bounty. \n  \nGet all the details here
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/hands-on-cholla-bud-harvesting-processing-feasting-planting-workshop-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230629T190000
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SUMMARY:Cool Boulder: Planting Rain - An Evening with Brad Lancaster\, Pioneer in Resilient Landscapes - Boulder\, Colorado
DESCRIPTION:What: Cool Boulder is excited to offer you an evening with rainwater planting pioneer\, Brad Lancaster\, sharing stories and inspirational examples of how planting rain could help create landscapes and communities that are resilient to climate change\, as well as healthier and happier places to live! \n\n\nBrad Lancaster has worked with communities all over the world to bring both indigenous and traditional knowledge of rainwater planting together with contemporary approaches and technologies that enable us to live and thrive on the water that comes to us for free from the sky. He will share stories from his experiences with these different places and cultures. \n\n\nRecognizing that Colorado’s future climate will much more closely resemble places like New Mexico\, we need to learn from those who have already been adapting to a limited ground/surface water future. Brad will share the emerging lessons and best practices that are reshaping both the way we approach infrastructure development and water policy\, both in his native home of Tucson\, AZ (average rainfall 10-12”/yr) and elsewhere. Learn about specific approaches being taken in other communities and examples of household and community projects that are easily implemented at both levels. \n\n\nGet a chance to meet others in the community who are interested in exploring these new approaches to rainwater planting! \n\n\nThis event is free\, but you must register on this Eventbrite page to attend in-person. A livestream and recording will be available as well. (more details below) \n\n\n\n\nWhen: Thursday\, June 29th; 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. \n\n\nWhere: Boulder JCC\, Levin Hall; 6007 Oreg Avenue\, Boulder\, CO\, 80303 \n\n\nImportant Details: \n\n\nInformal reception prior to presentation with hors d’oeuvers and non-alcoholic beverages\, a presentation from Brad Lancaster followed by a Q&A session and an opportunity to have Brad sign copies of his books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond” Vols 1-3! \n\n\nThis event is free\, but you must register on this Eventbrite page to attend in-person. \n\n\nDue to space limitations\, if you register for the event but can no longer attend\, please unregister so that someone else can sign up and enjoy this opportunity. Thank you! \n\n\nIf you are not able to attend in-person\, or are not available on the evening of Thursday\, June 29th\, this event will also be livestreamed and recorded and will be hosted on the Cool Boulder website. More details to come\, so stay tuned at www.coolboulder.org! \n\n\n\n\nIf you are interested in learning more about planting rain\, Brad’s innovating work and the techniques he has developed\, check out the following resources: \n\n\nBrad has literally written the book on rainwater harvesting practices! \n\n\nA short movie was recently made about Brad\, called\, “Water Harvester: An Invitation to Abundance“\, which shows some of the amazing transformations he’s helped create. \n\n\nHe has also done a number of great talks\, including this Ted Talk from a few years ago. \n\n\n  \nALSO check out the two follow up workshops on July 1st \nCool Boulder: A Two-Part Workshop with specialist\, Brad Lancaster\, on Planting Rain and Growing Absorbent Landscapes \n \n  \nhttps://www.coolboulder.org/cool-boulder-partners-events/planting-rain-with-pioneer-brad-lancaster
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/cool-boulder-planting-rain-an-evening-with-brad-lancaster-pioneer-in-resilient-landscapes-boulder-colorado/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230701T093000
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SUMMARY:Cool Boulder: A Two-Part Workshop with specialist\, Brad Lancaster\, on Planting Rain and Growing Absorbent Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:What: Join Cool Boulder guest speaker and rainwater utilization expert\, Brad Lancaster\, as he guides attendees through a hands-on workshop and site assessment activity at the Junkyard Social Club. Brad will demonstrate the potentials of “planting rain” through describing a body of existing work around the Western US\, and by walking participants through the steps in a site assessment and strategic plan for managing the water cycling in a way that feeds vegetation and minimizes stormwater runoff to create more resilient and healthy living landscapes! This workshop will include two sessions – one in the morning and one in the afternoon. You may register for one or both sessions if you’d like\, but please unregister if you can no longer attend. (registration details below) \n\n\nWhat to bring: \n\n\nClothes you are comfortable walking in\, getting dirty \n\n\nRefillable water bottle \n\n\nNotebook\, writing utensil or other method of capturing information \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession #1: Morning \n\n\nThe morning session will include: \n\n\nA show and tell around exciting rainwater utilization/growing absorbent landscapes that have taken place around the US\, \n\n\nAn introduction to the basic concepts and design strategies for incorporating rainwater into climate resilient landscapes\, and \n\n\nA hands-on training in simple site assessment techniques that participants can then apply to areas they can work with. \n\n\n\n\nWhen: Saturday\, July 1st; 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. \n\n\nWhere: Junkyard Social Club; 2525 Frontier Ave Suite A\, Boulder\, CO 80301 \n\n\nClick here to register for session #1 in the morning! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession #2: Afternoon \n\n\nThe afternoon session will include: \n\n\nA pizza lunch will be provided to those who attend the field portion of the workshop. \n\n\nA visit to 3 different types of urban landscape sites: \n\n\na public facility/park\, \n\n\nan urban single-family dwelling\, and \n\n\nan urban multi-family dwelling site. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants will be able to practice using the site assessment techniques they were introduced to in the morning session. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen: Saturday\, July 1st; 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. \n\n\nWhere: Aurora 7 Park (by High Peaks Elementary School); 3805 Aurora Ave\, Boulder\, CO 80303 \n\n\nClick here to register for session #2 in the afternoon! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrad Lancaster has worked with communities all over the world to bring both indigenous and traditional knowledge of rainwater planting together with contemporary approaches and technologies that enable us to live and thrive on the water that comes to us for free from the sky. He will share stories from his experiences with these different places and cultures. \n\n\nRecognizing that Colorado’s future climate will much more closely resemble places like New Mexico\, we need to learn from those who have already been adapting to a limited ground/surface water future. Brad will share the emerging lessons and best practices that are reshaping both the way we approach infrastructure development and water policy\, both in his native home of Tucson\, AZ (average rainfall 10-12”/yr) and elsewhere. Learn about specific approaches being taken in other communities and examples of household and community projects that are easily implemented at both levels. \n\n\n\n\nIf you are interested in learning more about rainwater harvesting and Brad’s innovating work and the techniques he has developed\, check out the following resources: \n\n\n\n\nBrad has literally written the book on rainwater harvesting practices! \n\n\nA short movie was recently made about Brad\, called\, “Water Harvester: An Invitation to Abundance“\, which shows some of the amazing transformations he’s helped create. \n\n\nHe has also done a number of great talks\, including this Ted Talk from a few years ago.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/cool-boulder-a-two-part-workshop-with-specialist-brad-lancaster-on-planting-rain-and-growing-absorbent-landscapes/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231107
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SUMMARY:Deadline to sign up for installation of rain gardens and plantings with the 28th Annual Dunbar/Spring (& 5th Annual West University) Neighborhood Rain\, Tree\, & Native Food Forest Planting – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:Get all the details here
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/deadline-to-sign-up-for-installation-of-rain-gardens-and-plantings-with-the-28th-annual-dunbar-spring-5th-annual-west-university-neighborhood-rain-tree-native-food-forest-planting-tu/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231114
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SUMMARY:APLD International Landscape Design Conference - Tucson\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:Brad Lancaster will give a presentation at the conference\, and lead a tour of his property and the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood rain-irrigated native food forest. \nFor more info see link below…\nhttps://www.apld.org/international-landscape-design-conference
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/apld-international-landscape-design-conference-tucson-arizona/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231119
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SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Design Certification Course – Tucson\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:For more info on this Watershed Management Group course\, plus how to register see:\nhttps://watershedmg.org/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-fall-2023 \nBrad will teach the morning of November 14th\, and he will also offer a guided tour of his place and some of his neighborhood’s rain-irrigated native food forest work\, Sunday November 19th.\nSign up for the tour once it is posted on Brad’s Events page.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-course-tucson-arizona-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20231119T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20231119T110000
DTSTAMP:20231118T191921Z
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SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 9am – 11am\, Sunday\, November 19\, 2023 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $14 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \nREGISTRATION/TICKETS: \nPick the number of attendees below\, and click on the “BUY NOW” button \nSOLD OUT \nThough there are openings in the December 9 tour\n \n\nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more!\nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,500 trees and hundreds of understory plants in the neighborhood\n• how a county grant helped pay for water-harvesting strategies harvesting over 1 million gallons of annual stormwater in and along the streets\n• how a neighborhood-organized Neighborhood Foresters program is training up the neighborhood to steward these features and is implementing more.\n• public art & other strategies reclaiming the commons for more life! \n  \nBrad will also be selling (at deep discount) & signing copies of the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books; and Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers. \n  \n  \nFor self-guided water tours in Tucson see: \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour/ \n  \n  \nHere is a video of a 2016 tour of my place (more evolutions have since occurred)…
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-block-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az-6/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20231209T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20231209T110000
DTSTAMP:20231118T194636Z
CREATED:20231118T190854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231118T194636Z
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SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 9am – 11am\, Saturday\, December 9\, 2023 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $15 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \nREGISTRATION/TICKETS: \nClick on the “BUY NOW” button below \n  \n\n\n$15.00 \nBuy now \n\n\n  \n\n  \n\nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more!\nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,500 trees and hundreds of understory plants in the neighborhood\n• how a county grant helped pay for water-harvesting strategies harvesting over 1 million gallons of annual stormwater in and along the streets\n• how a neighborhood-organized Neighborhood Foresters program is training up the neighborhood to steward these features and is implementing more.\n• public art & other strategies reclaiming the commons for more life! \n  \nBrad will also be selling (at deep discount) & signing copies of the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books; and Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers. \n  \n  \nFor self-guided water tours in Tucson see: \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour/ \n  \n  \nHere is a video of a 2016 tour of my place (more evolutions have since occurred)…
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-block-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az-8/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond":MAILTO:bradlank@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20231213T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20231213T200000
DTSTAMP:20231211T223154Z
CREATED:20231211T222322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231211T223154Z
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SUMMARY:Integrated Local Harvests presentation by Brad Lancaster in Joshua Tree\, CA
DESCRIPTION:WHERE:\nSunlight Ranch\n62323 Belmont St\nJoshua Tree\, CA 92252 \nWHEN:\n6pm\, Wednesday\, December 13\, 2023 \nCOST:\n$10 \nIntegrated Local Harvests:\nSimple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Natural Abundance of Your Home\, Community\, and the Larger World \nThis 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. \nYou’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. \nThis 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 fertile shade\, and more—to live as one of your community’s inspirational sparks! \nBrad will have the new full-color\, revised & expanded editions of his books for sale and signing\, along with rainwater harvesting caps\, shirts\, & stickers.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/integrated-local-harvests-presentation-by-brad-lancaster-in-joshua-tree-ca/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240131
DTSTAMP:20231210T045940Z
CREATED:20231210T045940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231210T045940Z
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SUMMARY:16th Annual Saskatchewan Association of Watersheds Conference
DESCRIPTION:Conference theme: Building Resilience Through Urban Water Systems \nGet all the details in the link below:\nhttps://saskwatersheds.ca/2024-saw-conference/
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/16th-annual-saskatchewan-association-of-watersheds-conference/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240304
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240310
DTSTAMP:20230708T003507Z
CREATED:20230708T003328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230708T003507Z
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SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Design Certification Course – Tucson\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:For more info on this Watershed Management Group course\, plus how to register see:\nhttps://watershedmg.org/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-spring-2024 \nBrad will teach the morning of March 5th\, and he will also offer a guided tour of his place and some of his neighborhood’s rain-irrigated native food forest work\, Sunday March 10th.\nSign up for the tour once it is posted on Brad’s Events page.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-course-tucson-arizona-5/
LOCATION:watershed management group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240310T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240310T110000
DTSTAMP:20240310T121203Z
CREATED:20231028T221917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240310T121203Z
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SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 9am – 11am\, Sunday\, March 10\, 2024 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $15 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \nSOLD OUT \nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more! \nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,500 trees and hundreds of understory plants in the neighborhood\n• how a county grant helped pay for water-harvesting strategies harvesting over 1 million gallons of annual stormwater in and along the streets\n• how a neighborhood-organized Neighborhood Foresters program is training up the neighborhood to steward these features and is implementing more.\n• public art & other strategies reclaiming the commons for more life! \n  \nBrad will also be selling (at deep discount) & signing copies of the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books; and Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers. \n  \n  \nFor self-guided water tours in Tucson see: \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour/ \n  \n  \nHere is a video of a 2016 tour of my place (more evolutions have since occurred)…
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-block-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az-7/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond":MAILTO:bradlank@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240316T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240316T170000
DTSTAMP:20240222T215817Z
CREATED:20240222T212959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T215817Z
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SUMMARY:Altar Valley Conservation Alliance Arroyo Hondo Restoration Workshop
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: Saturday\, March 16\, 2024 \n9am to 5pm (with optional camping Saturday night) \n  \nWHERE: Buenos Aires Wildlife Refugee\, Southern Arizona \nCOST: Free \n  \nTO REGISTER: Click on this link \n  \nJoin us for a hands-on workshop to improve and maintain restoration work at the Arroyo Hondo drainage on the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge. This event will be lead by local restoration experts Brad Lancaster\, Omar Ore-Giron\, Jeff Rhody\, and Kyle Thompson. \nThe workshop is free of cost! We will learn about: \n• Low-technology\, process-based methods for stream restoration and wildlife habitat improvement \n• How to monitor a stream’s response to your work \n• Ways to use hand-built structures and machinery to maintain projects \n  \nFor more information about the workshop\, please contact Julia Guglielmo (Altar Valley Conservation Alliance): julia@altarvalleyconservation.org \n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/altar-valley-conservation-alliance-arroyo-hondo-restoration-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240413T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240413T100000
DTSTAMP:20240406T055215Z
CREATED:20240404T010228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240406T055215Z
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SUMMARY:28th Annual Dunbar/Spring neighborhood Rain & Native Food Forest Planting – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n \n\nThis planting of rain\, trees\, understory\, & wildflowers is occurring in the West University neighborhood\, but the planting event is open to anyone from any neighborhood\, and is a great opportunity to see how such an event\, or other Neighborhood Forester endeavors\, could be organized elsewhere. \n\nDate: Saturday\, April 13\, 2024.\nThe stormwater eddy basins (each having over 4\,500-gallon annual capacity) were just completed – so now we can plant. Got to plant the rain before we plant the plants! \nTime: 7:00 am for a planting demonstration\, then keep going to various parts of the neighborhood. The demonstration will show you how to plant the rain to maximize its potential\, how to plant food-bearing native trees by seed and/or with nursery stock to maximize passive summer shading/cooling\, and how to recycle/plant prunings and leaves as fertility-building\, carbon-sequestering\, pollutant-filtering\, water-harvesting mulch.\nEnd time of 10:00 is approximate (with a good showing of folks we’ll likely finish up early). \nMeeting spot:\n610 N. 9th Ave\nOnce we finish planting there\, we’ll move to the following locations in the neighborhood\, all just a block away from one another  (in the following order):\n124 W. 4th Street\n127 W. University Blvd\n920 N. Perry Ave\n905 N. 9th Ave\n \nCome join us in planting native shade trees\, understory vegetation\, and seed within or beside water-harvesting earthworks in the public rights-of-way. The idea is to plant native food-producing\, flood-controlling\, wildlife-habitat-producing\, beautiful\, air- and water-filtering\, living air conditioners. Street trees that shade up to 75% of the street’s surface can also cool summer neighborhood temperatures by up to 20ºF. \nThis enhances the walkability and bikeability of our neighborhoods\, which improves health and drops crime. When we harvest street runoff to irrigate the street trees\, we also reduce water consumption as we reduce downstream flooding. Thus far this annual event has resulted in over 1\,700 trees being planted in our neighborhood\, thousands of understory plants\, and contributed to annually harvesting over one million gallons of stormwater that used to go to the stormdrain—let’s keep going! \n  \nWhat to bring: Work clothes\, sun hat\, gloves\, and water as we’ll be working outdoors. A pointed shovel\, pruning tools\, and/or hard rake would also be great (and we’ll have some extra tools on hand for those lacking them). \n  \n\nBonus: We’ll also help you identify desired native wildflowers to encourage – and pesky invasive weeds to pull – so next year we have more wildflowers and fewer weeds. \n  \nFor info and photos from past plantings see here \n  \nFor more info on our Annual Neighborhood Rain\, Tree\, & Food Forest Planting see here \n  \n  \nWe’ll do the West University Neighborhood Planting on Saturday\, April 14\, 2024 \n  \n  \nFor more info on these and many other water harvesting strategies\, check out the full-color\, revised editions of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond available at deep discount direct from the author Brad Lancaster. \n  \n \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/28th-annual-dunbar-spring-neighborhood-rain-native-food-forest-planting-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240414T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240414T100000
DTSTAMP:20240404T135533Z
CREATED:20240404T010632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240404T135533Z
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SUMMARY:5th Annual West University neighborhood Rain & Native Food Forest Planting – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\nThis planting of rain\, trees\, understory\, & wildflowers is occurring in the West University neighborhood\, but the planting event is open to anyone from any neighborhood\, and is a great opportunity to see how such an event\, or other Neighborhood Forester endeavors\, could be organized elsewhere. \n\nDate: Sunday\, April 14\, 2024.\nThe stormwater eddy basins (each having over 4\,500-gallon annual capacity) were just completed – so now we can plant. Got to plant the rain before we plant the plants! \nTime: 7:00 am for a planting demonstration\, then keep going to various parts of the neighborhood. The demonstration will show you how to plant the rain to maximize its potential\, how to plant food-bearing native trees by seed and/or with nursery stock to maximize passive summer shading/cooling\, and how to recycle/plant prunings and leaves as fertility-building\, carbon-sequestering\, pollutant-filtering\, water-harvesting mulch.\nEnd time of 10:00 is approximate (with a good showing of folks we’ll likely finish up early). \nMeeting spot:\n341 E. 1st Street\nOnce we finish planting there\, we’ll move to the following locations in the neighborhood\, all just a block away from one another  (in the following order):\n1001 N. 3rd Ave\n604 E. 1st Street\n\n \nCome join us in planting native shade trees\, understory vegetation\, and seed within or beside water-harvesting earthworks in the public rights-of-way. The idea is to plant native food-producing\, flood-controlling\, wildlife-habitat-producing\, beautiful\, air- and water-filtering\, living air conditioners. Street trees that shade up to 75% of the street’s surface can also cool summer neighborhood temperatures by up to 20ºF. \nThis enhances the walkability and bikeability of our neighborhoods\, which improves health and drops crime. When we harvest street runoff to irrigate the street trees\, we also reduce water consumption as we reduce downstream flooding. Thus far this annual event has resulted in over 1\,700 trees being planted in our neighborhood\, thousands of understory plants\, and contributed to annually harvesting over one million gallons of stormwater that used to go to the stormdrain—let’s keep going! \n  \nWhat to bring: Work clothes\, sun hat\, gloves\, and water as we’ll be working outdoors. A pointed shovel\, pruning tools\, and/or hard rake would also be great (and we’ll have some extra tools on hand for those lacking them). \n  \n\nBonus: We’ll also help you identify desired native wildflowers to encourage – and pesky invasive weeds to pull – so next year we have more wildflowers and fewer weeds. \n  \nFor info and photos from past plantings see here \n  \nFor more info on our Annual Neighborhood Rain\, Tree\, & Food Forest Planting see here \n  \n  \nWe’ll do the Dunbar Spring Neighborhood Planting on Saturday\, April 13\, 2024 \n  \n  \nFor more info on these and many other water harvesting strategies\, check out the full-color\, revised editions of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond available at deep discount direct from the author Brad Lancaster. \n \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/5th-annual-west-university-neighborhood-rain-native-food-forest-planting-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240421T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240421T100000
DTSTAMP:20240420T121336Z
CREATED:20240420T121141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240420T121336Z
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SUMMARY:Dunbar/Spring and West University Rain & Native Food Forest Planting (PART TWO) – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:Join Brad Lancaster and Neighborhood Foresters at this planting of rain\, trees\, understory\, & wildflowers occurring in the Dunbar/Spring and West University neighborhoods. \nThe planting event is open to anyone from any neighborhood\, and is a great opportunity to see how such an event\, or other Neighborhood Forester endeavors\, could be organized elsewhere. \n\nDate: Sunday\, April 21\, 2024.\nThe stormwater eddy basins (each having over 4\,500-gallon annual capacity) were just completed – so now we can plant. Got to plant the rain before we plant the plants! \nTime: 7:00 am for a planting demonstration\, then we plant the two sites. The demonstration will show you how to plant the rain to maximize its potential\, how to plant food-bearing native trees by seed and/or with nursery stock to maximize passive summer shading/cooling\, and how to recycle/plant prunings and leaves as fertility-building\, carbon-sequestering\, pollutant-filtering\, water-harvesting mulch.\nEnd time of 10:00 is approximate (with a good showing of folks we’ll likely finish up early). \nLocations:\n341 E. 1st Street (in West University neighborhood)\nOnce we finish planting there\, we’ll move to the next and last site at:\n920 N. Perry Ave (in Dunbar/Spring neighborhood)\n \nCome join us in planting native shade trees\, understory vegetation\, and seed within or beside water-harvesting earthworks in the public rights-of-way. The idea is to plant native food-producing\, flood-controlling\, wildlife-habitat-producing\, beautiful\, air- and water-filtering\, living air conditioners. Street trees that shade up to 75% of the street’s surface can also cool summer neighborhood temperatures by up to 20ºF. \nThis enhances the walkability and bikeability of our neighborhoods\, which improves health and drops crime. When we harvest street runoff to irrigate the street trees\, we also reduce water consumption as we reduce downstream flooding. Thus far this annual event has resulted in over 1\,700 trees being planted in our neighborhood\, thousands of understory plants\, and contributed to annually harvesting over one million gallons of stormwater that used to go to the stormdrain—let’s keep going! \n  \nWhat to bring: Work clothes\, sun hat\, gloves\, and water as we’ll be working outdoors. A pointed shovel\, pruning tools\, and/or hard rake would also be great (and we’ll have some extra tools on hand for those lacking them). \n  \n\nBonus: We’ll also help you identify desired native wildflowers to encourage – and pesky invasive weeds to pull – so next year we have more wildflowers and fewer weeds. \n  \nFor info and photos from past plantings see here \n  \nFor more info on our Annual Neighborhood Rain\, Tree\, & Food Forest Planting see here \n  \nFor more info on these and many other water harvesting strategies\, check out the full-color\, revised editions of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond available at deep discount direct from the author Brad Lancaster.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/dunbar-spring-and-west-university-rain-native-food-forest-planting-part-two-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240424
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240427
DTSTAMP:20240222T220345Z
CREATED:20240214T214842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T220345Z
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SUMMARY:Southwest Agroforestry Action Network (SWANN) 2024 Annual Conference
DESCRIPTION:Agroforestry for the Southwest: Integrating trees and food to regenerate landscapes and people. \nWHEN: April 24-26\, 2024 \nWHERE: Tucson\, Arizona on University of Arizona Campus (or Via Zoom on April 24) \nRegister and get more info at:\nhttps://www.aztrees.org/event-5453333 \nBrad Lancaster will be giving a presentation and guiding a tour at the conference. \n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/southwest-agroforestry-action-network-swann-2024-annual-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240709T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240709T173000
DTSTAMP:20240709T212136Z
CREATED:20240628T214157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T212136Z
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SUMMARY:Webinar - Plant the Rain to Grow Abundance with Brad Lancaster
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday July 9\, 2024 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM\nCalifornia (PDT) time\n\n\nContact\nDebbie Gliksman\ndebbie@urbanoasis-la.com\n\n\nLocation\nZoom webinar\n\n\nCost\n$10 Students $15 APLD Members $30 Non-Members\n\n\nSponsored by:\nGreater Los Angeles District\n\n\nAPLD CEUs\npending\n\n\nDescription\nSave the date!\nThis dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest\, integrate\, and enliven free local resources—such as rain-\, grey-\, and storm-waters; 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.\nYou’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 storm-water\, seed\, and yard prunings.\n \nThis talk is both an invitation to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and community and a treasure map showing you how to live as one of your community’s inspirational sparks by planting the rain\, dancing with the sun\, growing fertile shade\, and more!\n \n  \nSIGN UP at:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/planting-the-rain-to-grow-abundance-with-brad-lancaster-tickets-885287838757?aff=oddtdtcreator
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/webinar-plant-the-rain-to-grow-abundance-with-brad-lancaster/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240727
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240728
DTSTAMP:20240629T000851Z
CREATED:20240224T001453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240629T000851Z
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SUMMARY:Good Water Texas Master Naturalists conference
DESCRIPTION:Brad will be giving a virtual presentation at this conference\, which also includes in-person speakers. You can see it all in-person or virtually when you register.\nMore info at: \n  \nFrom Balconies to Backyards – Co-Existing in a Warmer Drier Climate
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/good-water-texas-master-naturalists-conference/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240915
DTSTAMP:20240628T220805Z
CREATED:20240628T220715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240628T220805Z
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SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Design Certification Course – Tucson\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:For more info on this Watershed Management Group course\, plus how to register see:\nhttps://watershedmg.org/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-september-2024 \nBrad will teach September 9 or 10\, and he will also offer a guided tour of his place and some of his neighborhood’s rain-irrigated native food forest work\, Sunday September 15th.\nSign up for the tour once it is posted on Brad’s Events page.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-course-tucson-arizona-6/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240915T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240915T110000
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SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 8am – 10am\, Sunday\, September 15\, 2024 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $15 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served! \n\nSOLD OUT – come to the next tour November 10 \n\nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more! \nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,500 trees and hundreds of understory plants in the neighborhood\n• how a county grant helped pay for water-harvesting strategies harvesting over 1 million gallons of annual stormwater in and along the streets\n• how a neighborhood-organized Neighborhood Foresters program is training up the neighborhood to steward these features and is implementing more.\n• public art & other strategies reclaiming the commons for more life! \n  \nBrad will also be selling (at deep discount) & signing copies of the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books; and Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers. \n  \n  \nFor self-guided water tours in Tucson see: \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour/ \n  \n  \nHere is a video of a 2016 tour of my place (more evolutions have since occurred)…
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-block-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az-9/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20241002T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20241002T190000
DTSTAMP:20240918T220146Z
CREATED:20240918T220146Z
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SUMMARY:Special screening of Weathered Earth's Extremes Episode Three: As Heat Waves Worsen PLUS live interview with Brad Lancaster
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/special-screening-of-weathered-earths-extremes-episode-three-as-heat-waves-worsen-plus-live-interview-with-brad-lancaster/
LOCATION:Zoom or online
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241110
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SUMMARY:Water Harvesting Design Certification Course – Tucson\, Arizona
DESCRIPTION:For more info on this Watershed Management Group course\, plus how to register see:\nhttps://watershedmg.org/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-november-2024 \nBrad will teach November 4 or 5\, and he will also offer a guided tour of his place and some of his neighborhood’s rain-irrigated native food forest work\, Sunday November 10th.\nSign up for the tour once it is posted on Brad’s Events page.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/water-harvesting-design-certification-course-tucson-arizona-7/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20241110T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20241110T110000
DTSTAMP:20241109T052238Z
CREATED:20240628T221857Z
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SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 9am – 11am\, Sunday\, November 10\, 2024 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $15 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \nSOLD OUT  \nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more! \nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,500 trees and hundreds of understory plants in the neighborhood\n• how a county grant helped pay for water-harvesting strategies harvesting over 1 million gallons of annual stormwater in and along the streets\n• how a neighborhood-organized Neighborhood Foresters program is training up the neighborhood to steward these features and is implementing more.\n• public art & other strategies reclaiming the commons for more life! \n  \nBrad will also be selling (at deep discount) & signing copies of the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books; and Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers. \n  \n  \nFor self-guided water tours in Tucson see: \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour/ \n  \n  \nHere is a video of a 2016 tour of my place (more evolutions have since occurred)…
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/guided-water-harvesting-home-neighborhood-block-tour-with-brad-lancaster-tucson-az-10/
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