Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster

Brad Lancaster: Free Public Water-Harvesting Talk, March 4, 2014 — Lubbock TX
2014-03-04 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Thanks to Texas Tech University Plant and Soil Science Department, Plant and Soil Science Graduate Student Council, Texas Tech International Cultural Center, and PSS Graduate Research Assistant Misha Manuchehri for making this event possible!
Date: March 4, 2014
Time: 7 pm
Talk: Water Harvesting for Food Production & Beyond
Venue: Texas Tech International Cultural Center, Hall of Nations
Address: 601 Indiana Avenue, Lubbock TX 79409-5004
Cost: Free & open to the public. Donations welcome!
Brad will have his books, including the new 2nd edition of Volume 1, available for sale & signing
FMI: Misha Manuchehri: misha.manuchehri@ttu.edu or (425) 246-7853

Brad Lancaster: Presentation at 2nd National Iranian Rainwater Catchment Systems Association Conference, February 19, 2014 — Mashhad, Iran
2014-02-19 - 2014-02-20
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Second Iranian National Conference on Rainwater Catchment Systems
February 19–20, 2014
Mashhad International Exhibition Center
Vakil Abad Boulevard
Mashhad, Iran
Brad is scheduled to speak on the afternoon of February 19, 2014, followed by a discussion and Q&A. Please see the program below (in Persian) for details about Brad’s and other conference participants’ sessions.
2nd National IRCSA Conference program

Main topics:
Traditional/local knowledge on rainwater harvesting
Effects of climate change on rainwater harvesting
New technologies in rainwater harvesting
Rainwater harvesting’s role in integrated water-resources management
Rainwater quality (in urban and rural areas)
Rainwater use challenges in urban and rural areas (social, economical, technical, etc.)
Rainwater harvesting for rangeland reclamation, irrigation, and livestock and wildlife use
This conference is co-organized by IRCSA and the Iranian Ministries of Power and Agriculture. Iranian government employees and foreigners are invited to attend free of charge.
For more information, visit www.ircsa.ir or send an email to info@ircsa.ir or conference chairman Dr. Dastorani at dastorani@um.ac.ir.

Many thanks to Dr. Javad Tabatabaee Yazdi (IRCSA President), Dr. Dastorani (IRCSA Conference Secretary),
and their many colleagues for inviting Brad to speak at their conference and for making his trip possible.

Brad Lancaster: Ancient Sun-, Shade-, and Water-Harvesting Strategies and Their Modern-Day Resurgence, February 13, 2014 — Winter Count (near Maricopa AZ)
2014-02-13 18:30 - 20:00
Noon, summer solstice. White House ruin, Canyon de Chelly. The orientation and placement of the buildings is ideal for passive shading and cooling. The natural overhang shades out the majority of the noonday sun that sits high in the sky, while the cliff shades out the hot early-morning and late-afternoon summer sun that rises in the northeast and sets in the northwest.
Weather permitting, Brad will give an evening presentation on Ancient Sun-, Shade-, and Water-Harvesting Strategies and Their Modern-Day Resurgence.
Date: Thursday, February 13, 2014
Time: After dark (given times are approximate)
Venue: Winter Count Primitive Skills Gathering
Location: Near Maricopa, AZ
For more information about Winter Count, including registration, visit: www.backtracks.net/wintercount.html
Full event runs February 9–15, 2014

Brad Lancaster: Integrated Local Harvests Talk & Book-Signing, February 12, 2014 — Glendale AZ
2014-02-12 18:00 - 20:00
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Time: 6–8 pm
Venue: Glendale Public Library Auditorium, 5959 W Brown St, Glendale, AZ 85302 (map)

Description: Brad’s talk, Integrated Local Harvests: Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World, will explore strategies to harvest, integrate, and enhance free local resources—such as rain-, grey-, and stormwater; 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.

Brad will have his new Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd edition, and Volume 2, Water-Harvesting Earthworks, on hand to sell & sign.

There is no fee to attend, although donations will be gratefully accepted at the door. This program is offered by the city of Glendale Conservation and Sustainable Living Office in partnership with the Watershed Management Group.

To register, please call (623) 930-3760 or email bpatrick@glendaleaz.com. For more information contact Ryan Wood with Watershed Management Group at rwood@watershedmg.org or (602) 618-6650.

Brad Lancaster: Free Public Talk: Integrated Local Harvests, February 12, 2014 — Chandler AZ
2014-02-12 11:15 - 13:00
Brad’s talk is made possible by Milos Podmanik and the
Center for Civic and Global Engagement at Chandler-Gilbert Community College.
Thank you!
Date: Wednesday, February 12
Time: 11:15 a.m – 1 p.m.
Venue: Performing Arts Center Auditorium
Location: Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Address: 2626 E Pecos Rd, Chandler AZ 85225
Cost: Free
Brad will have his books on hand for sale/signing.
TALK DESCRIPTION:
Integrated Local Harvests:
Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Natural Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World
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—by planting the rain, dancing with the sun, growing fertile shade, and more to live as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!

Brad Lancaster: Public Talk: Turning Drains Into Sponges and Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance, February 11, 2014 — Oakland CA
2014-02-11 09:30 - 12:30
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WHO & WHAT: Brad Lancaster shares eight universal principles of water harvesting along with simple strategies that turn water scarcity into water abundance and floods into opportunity. They empower you to create integrated water-sustainable landscape plans at home and throughout your community. This presentation will focus on large projects and how to recreate our cities with fewer storm drains by reestablishing watersheds.
PRESENTED BY: Bay-Friendly Landscaping & Gardening Coalition
DATES: Tuesday, February 11, 2014
TIME: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Lakeside Park Garden Center on Lake Merritt, 666 Bellevue Ave, Oakland
COST: Register before 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
DOWNLOAD THE FLYER
MORE ABOUT THE TALK:
This inspiring presentation shares eight universal principles of water harvesting along with simple strategies that turn water scarcity into water abundance, and floods into opportunity. 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.

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
2014-02-10 18:30 - 21:30
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
DOWNLOAD THE FLYER
MORE ABOUT THE TALK:
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.

Brad Lancaster: Community Water-Harvesting Series, January 31–February 2, 2014 — Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, México
2014-01-31 16:00 - 18:00
El agua de lluvia representa un recurso disponible y factible de aprovechar de manera fácil y económica. Con la intención de ofrecer un espacio de aprendizaje sobre experiencias exitosas en captación de agua de lluvia y manejo de aguas pluviales, se desarrollará el evento “COSECHA DE AGUA DE LLUVIA Y REFORESTACIÓN URBANA”, con la participación de Brad Lancaster, de Tucson Arizona, experto en captura y utilización de agua pluvial para reforestar paisajes urbanos, quien además ha brindado asesoría en Estados Unidos de América y en otros países.
Como parte del evento se impartirá una conferencia magna y se realizará una intervención demostrativa, a pequeña escala, sobre formas de captar agua de lluvia para desarrollar áreas verdes en zonas urbanas.
AGENDA DEL EVENTO:
VIERNES 31 DE ENERO
4:00 pm a 6:00 PM Conferencia sobre experiencias exitosas en captación de agua de lluvia y en reforestación urbana.
Palacio Municipal, Sala de Cabildo Nueva.
SÁBADO 1 DE FEBRERO
9:00 am a 1:00 pm Parte taller práctico demostrativo a pequeña escala sobre formas de captar agua de lluvia para desarrollar áreas verdes.
Estadio Manuel Piri Sagasta
3:00 pm a 6:00 pm Asesoría a Cocorit, Recorrido por la comunidad.
DOMINGO 2 DE FEBRERO
8:30 a 12:30 Recorrido por áreas verdes en Cd. Obregón para asesoría
Este es un esfuerzo de colaboración entre la sociedad civil, iniciativa privada y gobierno, convencidos de la importancia de implementar prácticas cada vez más sustentables que permitan cuidar y aprovechar adecuadamente los recursos naturales y generar mejores condiciones de vida.
Agradeceríamos contar con su presencia y al mismo tiempo, esperamos contar con su apoyo para promocionar este evento en todos los sectores de la comunidad.
Mayores Informes: 413-1996, 414-3850, 415-3637, yhira.rodiguez@imipcajeme.org, eambiental@ponguinguiola.org

Brad Lancaster: Public Talk: Enhancing What We Already Have, January 17, 2014 — Harare, Zimbabwe
2014-01-17 14:30 - 17:30
Rain is always free.Illustration by Joe Marshall.
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Location: Education Centre, Upper East Road, Harare
Date: Friday, January 17, 2014
Time: 2:30 – ? pm
Enhancing What We Already Have:
Inspiring Stories and Strategies from Around the World for Harvesting Free On-Site Resources such as Water, Sun, Shade, Food, Fertility, and Community
This presentation shares universal principles and practices that turn water scarcity into water abundance, floods into opportunity, and wastes into fertility. The key is creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. We begin with simple and effective strategies that can be used at home, then move to the street, the neighborhood, the village or city, and the rural broadacre environment.
Rainwater-, greywater-, stormwater-, and condensate-harvesting strategies from the southwestern U.S., Middle East, and Italy will be shared. Examples include how once-dying wetlands and creek flows are being regenerated with simple hand-built structures made of on-site materials; how ancient rainwater cisterns are being rediscovered and rehabilitated to again hydrate people and farms of today; and how greenbelts of water, wildlife, food, and celebration are being generated by planting once-drained stormwater, seed, and organic matter.
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 fertile shade, and more to live as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!
There will be lots of time afterwards for questions and discussion. It’s a good opportunity to explore this very critical topic to us in Zimbabwe.
Please RSVP to John Wilson if you plan on attending so he knows how many people to expect, and please feel free to spread this around your email/internet contacts to others who might like to come.
Directions: Coming out of town on Sam Nujoma Ave (former 2nd Street extension), turn right just beyond the junction with Churchill Ave into Upper East Road. About 200-300 metres along Upper East turn right into the Ministry of Education complex and the Education Centre is on the left. There will be a PELUM Association banner on display outside.

Brad Lancaster: Live Interview on Speak Up Las Cruces, November 26, 2013 — KOBE-AM 1450
2013-11-26 09:06 - 10:00
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Brad will be the 9 am (MST) guest with Peter Goodman and Keith Whelpley on “Speak Up Las Cruces”
KOBE-AM 1450
Las Cruces, NM

November 26, 2013

This is a live call-in show, so if you’d like to join in the conversation, call the station at (575) 523-1450 during the program. Although online streaming not available at this time, listeners outside the broadcast area are welcome to call in with questions for Brad between 9:10 and 9:50 am MST.

Brad Lancaster: Panelista en el Foro Regional sobre Infraestructura Verde, 21 y 22 de noviembre 2013 — Tijuana BC México
2013-11-21 15:00 - 19:30
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte mediante el Departamento de Estudios Urbanos y del Medio Ambiente está organizando el primer
Foro Regional sobre Infraestructura Verde (FRIV)
Horario: el jueves, 21 de noviembre, 3–7:30 pm,
y el viernes, 22 de noviembre, 8 am–5 pm
Lugar: Aula Magna Raúl Rangel de El Colef, Tijuana
Costo: Gratis
El objetivo del foro es evaluar los factores clave, incentivos y obstáculos para la incorporación de los conceptos de infraestructura verde en la gestión urbana ambiental.
El evento se está enfocando principalmente en la implicación de las áreas verdes con a) la accesibilidad a parques, salud, resiliencia urbana y riesgos asociados con la deforestación; y b) el desarrollo verde y mecanismos de la planeación urbana como lo son el transporte público, ciclo vías, restauración de ríos, y tratamiento de agua y reciclaje.
Mesas de Trabajo:

Techos verdes y captación de agua pluvial (el jueves: Brad es uno de los tres panelistas, habrá traducción simultánea)

Redes y corredores verdes (el viernes)

Ríos (el viernes)

Integración a la Planeación Urbana (el viernes)

Si desea ver este evento en línea, habrá videostreaming en www.colef.mx
Coordinadores del Evento:

Dr. Carlos de la Parra Rentería, Profesor-Investigador del Departamento de Estudios Urbanos y del Medio Ambiente de El Colef.

Dra. Lina Ojeda Revah, Profesora-Investigadora del Departamento de Estudios Urbanos y del Medio Ambiente de El Colef.

Dra. Ana Córdova y Vázquez, Profesora-Investigadora del Departamento de Estudios Urbanos y del Medio Ambiente de El Colef, Unidad Regional Ciudad Juárez.

Dra. Ileana Espejel Carbajal, Profesora-Investigadora de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada.

Mayores informes:
www.colef.mx
+52 (664)631-6300, ext: 2412
infraverde@colef.mx
Event basics:
Green Infrastructure Forum
November 21 and 22
11/21: 3 pm – 7:30 pm (PDT)
11/22: 8 am – 5 pm (PDT)
Free and open to the public
Lecture Hall: Aula Magna Raúl Rangel

El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Tijuana, Baja California, México

Brad Lancaster: Native Seeds/SEARCH Salon, Local Integrated Harvests Talk & Book-Signing, November 18, 2013 — Tucson AZ
2013-11-18 18:00 - 20:00
Brad will give his newest water-harvesting and integrated-design talk at the Native Seeds/SEARCH’s Salon Program, as well as having his new Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd edition, on hand to sell & sign.
Native Seeds/SEARCH Salons happen every third Monday of the month at the NS/S Conservation Center and have a little something for anyone who has ever wielded a fork or pitchfork. Bring your juiciest ideas and an appetite for mind-watering conversations.
Where:
Native Seeds/SEARCH Conservation Center
3584 E River Road
Tucson AZ 85718
When:
Monday evening, November 18, 2013
6–8 pm
Cost: Free
FMI:
Belle Starr
belle@nativeseeds.org
(520) 622-0830, x104
The 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!
The Book:
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 280 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life; reduce your cost of living; endow you with skills of self-reliance; and create community-building, living, air-conditioning vegetation that grows beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!

Brad Lancaster: Integrated-Design Talk, Monday, November 11, 2013 — Albuquerque NM
2013-11-11 08:00 - 09:00
Brad will be giving a short talk on integrated design, focused on sun and shade harvesting, followed by Q&A at Albuquerque Academy, tailored for their 10th- through 12th-grade students, yet open to the public.
Date: Monday morning, November 11, 2013
Time: 8–9 am
Venue: Albuquerque Academy’s Little Theatre, Simms Center for the Performing Arts
Address: 6400 Wyoming Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109
Campus map available here.
Free!

Brad Lancaster: "Urban Acupuncture" Talk, November 4, 2013 — Hollywood CA
2013-11-04 19:00 - 21:00
Urban Acupuncture: Creating Regenerative Rights-of-Way
A public talk by Brad Lancaster
Venue: Los Angeles Beautification HQ
Address: 1741 N Cherokee Ave, Hollywood CA 90028
Date: Monday, November 4, 2013
Time: 7–9 pm
Sponsored by: The River Project
Suggested donation: $10
RSVP at Eventbrite
Download the flyer here.

Brad Lancaster: Parkway Gardens Hands-on Workshop, November 3, 2013 — Studio City CA
2013-11-03 13:00 - 16:00
Parkway Gardens Hands-on Workshop
Organized by The River Project & Water LA
That no-man’s land between the sidewalk & the street can take a good deal of labor & water to maintain! We’ll show you how you can transform it into a low-maintenance, low-water oasis.
Capture, conserve, & reuse the rain & runoff that usually flows past your property & out to the ocean!
Date: Sunday, November 3, 2013
Time: 1–4 pm
Cost: Free (as long as you’re willing to lend a hand)
General location: Rhodes Avenue & Valley Spring Lane, Studio City
*Please RSVP via Eventbrite for exact address*
Snacks & beverages provided, everyone welcome!

Brad Lancaster: Keynote Speaker at WESTCAS Fall Conference, October 31, 2013 — Tucson AZ
2013-10-31 12:00 - 2013-11-02 13:30
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WESTCAS 2013 FALL CONFERENCE:
Sharing Insights and Opportunities—Has the Arid West Drawn the ‘Shortage Straw’?

October 30 – November 1, 2013
Westward Look Resort
245 E Ina Rd
Tucson AZ 85704
Brad will be delivering the daily keynote on Thursday, October 31, from 12 noon to 1:30 pm.
Click here to download the conference brochure, with general information, conference agenda, and registration materials.
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Who is WESTCAS?
The Arid West has a unique ecosystem. Many months have no rain, and annual precipitation often is less than 12 inches. Consequently, it is essential to protect both the quantity and quality of water supplies. To this end, in 1992 the area’s water and wastewater providers joined together to share their talents and resources, assuming the name Western Coalition of Arid States, or WESTCAS. A grassroots organization, WESTCAS is dedicated to encouraging the development of water programs and regulations which assure adequate supplies of high quality water for those living in the arid regions while protecting the environment.
What does WESTCAS offer?
WESTCAS provides members with a powerful presence in Washington, D.C. and in regional and state regulatory and legislative decision-making; an effective vehicle for information exchange through meetings and publications; the opportunity to help draft federal, regional, state, and local legislation and regulations about water quality and supply.
Who should belong to WESTCAS?
Water and wastewater service providers, including cities and towns, water and irrigation districts, wastewater agencies, Native American nations, and others concerned with management of issues related to water and wastewater supply, such as attorneys, engineering firms, and consulting firms.

Brad Lancaster: Free Public Talk, Free Sun- & Shade-Harvesting Strategies for Passive Heating, Cooling, Lighting, & Power, October 17, 2013 — Tucson AZ
2013-10-17 18:30 - 20:00
Who: Brad Lancaster, in conjunction with Watershed Management Group & hosted by the Jewish Community Center
What: Free public talk on Free Sun- & Shade-Harvesting Strategies for Passive Heating, Cooling, Lighting, & Power
Brad’s books, including the new 2nd edition of Volume 1, will be available for sale & signing after the talk.
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2013
Time: 6:30 – 8 pm
RSVP: Here
Location:
Jewish Community Center
3800 E River Rd, Tucson AZ 85718
(520) 299-3000
FMI:
Tory Syracuse | Associate Director | Watershed Management Group
Email: tsyracuse@watershedmg.org
Office: 520-396-3266, ext. 6
Cell: 520-820-9483

Watershed Management Group, with Brad Lancaster: Water-Harvesting Certification Course, October 7–13, 2013, & March 17–23, 2014 — Tucson AZ
2013-10-07 - 2013-10-13
Brad will be one of several instructors for this classic WMG course.
When:
October 7–13, 2013
March 17–23, 2014
Early registration ends August 16, 2013 for the October 2013 course, and January 24, 2014, for the March 2014 course

Description:
The WMG Water-Harvesting Certification program is designed for professionals, educators, and community organizers seeking comprehensive instruction in water-harvesting systems design and construction. The program offers a unique combination of hands-on and classroom instruction, providing participants with a thorough, on-the-ground understanding of the core practices in this increasingly popular field. Our program provides the highest quality and greatest depth of training in integrative water harvesting offered in the nation.
The course teaches site assessment, design, and installation of:

Greywater systems, gravity-based
Rainwater harvesting landscapes
Roof-top rainwater catchment (cisterns)

The course educational sessions includes:

Lectures on each major topic
Hands-on assessments at the sites where projects will be implemented
Training workshops where participants learn by constructing water harvesting systems at public, residential, or commercial sites
Reading and homework assignments to solidify knowledge gained in the hands-on workshops
Final exam to earn certification

Click here to register for the OCTOBER 2013 course
Click here to register for the MARCH 2014 course

Contact:
Phone: 520-396-3266
Email: tech-trainings@watershedmg.org
Course Fee:

Regular Registration
$ 1,100.00

WMG Training Alumni and Students
$ 1,050.00

Partial Payment Installments (1st payment)
$ 400.00

Brad Lancaster: Public Talk: Integrated Local Harvests, October 3, 2013 — Sedona AZ
2013-10-03 19:00 - 20:30
Please join Ecosa Institute (a sponsored program of Prescott College) and Keep Sedona Beautiful in welcoming Brad Lancaster to Sedona!
Brad will being presenting his newest talk, Integrated Local Harvests, and will have copies of his books available for sale and signing, including the new 2nd edition of Volume 1, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands & Beyond: Guiding Principles.
Date: Thursday, October 3, 2013
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Keep Sedona Beautiful, 360 Brewer Rd., Sedona
Donations will be greatly appreciated!
The 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!
The Book:
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 280 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life; reduce your cost of living; endow you with skills of self-reliance; and create community-building, living, air-conditioning vegetation that grows beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!

Brad Lancaster, Guest Instructor with Wayne Weiseman: Water & Earthworks 4-Day Intensive, September 26–29, 2013 — Fountain City WI
2013-09-26 - 2013-09-29
WATER & EARTHWORKS 4-DAY INTENSIVE COURSE
(shortened from previous 9-day format)
September 26–29, 2013
Kinstone Academy of Applied Permaculture
Fountain City, Wisconsin
The Course Basics:
We will learn how to read slope and how water moves by gravity. We will discuss what the hydrological cycle is and its importance in the great web of life. We will learn how to capture water with dams and swales, how to recharge groundwater systems, how to move earth in order to construct earthworks such as ponds, lakes and dams, how to identify the keyline in a landscape, how to assess and construct wetlands for water purification, what kind of vegetation helps to purify water, what to plant in and near swales, ponds, and lakes, how to utilize gray water in orchards and fields, and when the use of septic, leach fields and wells are appropriate. Most of all we will learn that all water used in the landscape and for personal use can be purified and recycled for further use. Water rights and usage are becoming a major issue in the world today: what are these current issues?
Brad Lancaster, an expert in rainwater harvesting and water management approaches, is a guest instructor for 2 days of this course.
For more information and to register:
kinstonecircle.com/1317/water-and-earthworks/

Brad Lancaster: Water Harvesting & Integrated Design Course, September 13–16, 2013—Castellana Grotte (BA), Italy
2013-09-13 - 2013-09-16
September 13–16, 2013
Brad will be teaching in English with translation into Italian. The course is planned to include classroom instruction in water harvesting and integrated design, as well as hands-on work with earthworks and greywater.
For all course details, including costs, registration, site details, and lodging, contact Patrizia Mastroleo of hosting organization Masseria Atipica.

Brad Lancaster: Local Integrated Harvests Talk & Book-Signing, September 7, 2013 — South Tucson AZ
2013-09-07 12:00 - 13:30
Brad will give his newest water-harvesting and integrated-design talk, as well as having his new Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd edition, on hand to sell & sign.
Where:
Sam Lena–South Tucson Branch of Pima County Library
1607 S 6th Ave
Tucson, AZ 85713
(520) 594-5265 (main number)
When:
Saturday, September 7, 2013
12 noon–1:30 pm
Cost: Free
FMI:
Jon Meade, Library Associate
jon.meade@pima.gov
(520) 594-5267
The 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!
The Book:
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 280 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life; reduce your cost of living; endow you with skills of self-reliance; and create community-building, living, air-conditioning vegetation that grows beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!

Brad Lancaster: Local Integrated Harvests Talk & Book-Signing at Western National Parks Association, September 4, 2013 — Oro Valley AZ
2013-09-04 12:00 - 13:30
Brad will give his newest water-harvesting and integrated-design talk, as well as having his new Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd edition, on hand to sell & sign.

Where:
Western National Parks Association Store
12880 N Vistoso Village Drive
Tucson, AZ 85755
(Oro Valley)
When:
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
noon–1:30 pm &
2–3:30 pm
(same talk both times)
Cost:
Free
FMI:
Susan Cross, Education & Outreach Manager
susan@wnpa.org
(520) 789-7405
The 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!
The Book:
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 280 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life; reduce your cost of living; endow you with skills of self-reliance; and create community-building, living, air-conditioning vegetation that grows beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!

Brad Lancaster: Local Integrated Harvests Talk & Book-Signing, August 31, 2013 — Green Valley AZ
2013-08-31 14:00 - 15:30
Brad will give his newest water-harvesting and integrated-design talk, as well as having his new Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd edition, on hand to sell & sign.
Where:
Joyner-Green Valley Branch of Pima County Library
601 N La Cañada Drive
Green Valley, AZ 85614
When:
Saturday afternoon, August 31, 2013
2–3:30 pm
Cost: Free
FMI:
Robin Green, Librarian
robin.green@pima.gov
(520) 594-5295
The 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!
The Book:
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 280 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life; reduce your cost of living; endow you with skills of self-reliance; and create community-building, living, air-conditioning vegetation that grows beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!

Brad Lancaster: "Integrated Local Harvests" Public Talk & Book-Signing, August 24, 2013 — Santa Fe NM
2013-08-24 18:30 - 21:00
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Starting at 4:30 pm, there will be info tables set up outside the entrance to encourage informal conversations and networking with people and organizations (not including Brad) promoting local water, local food, and sustainable neighborhoods.
Indoor seating will begin at 6 pm
Starting at 6:30 pm, local groups sponsoring the event will present brief introductions to their work. Current sponsors are Carbon Economy, Sustainable Santa Fe, and Homegrown NM.
Brad will begin his talk at 7 pm. The talk will be ASL-interpreted.
Brad’s books—including the new & expanded 2nd edition of Volume 1, will be available after his talk for sale and signing.
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James A. Little Theater
New Mexico School for the Deaf
1060 Cerrillos Road
Santa Fe, NM 87505
(505) 827-6760
Suggested donation: $5–$10 (no one turned away)
To prepay, go to: bradlancaster.eventbrite.com
Click to download the flyer.
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!
FMI about the event: Contact homegrownewmexico.org, or call (505) 473-1403 or (505) 216-0675
BRAD’S BOOK:
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands & Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 280 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life; reduce your cost of living; endow you with skills of self-reliance; and create community-building, living, air-conditioning vegetation that grows beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!

Brad Lancaster: Woodbine Ecology Center Water-Harvesting Workshop, August 17–19, 2013 — Sedalia CO
2013-08-17 - 2013-08-19
Plant the Rain
Water-Harvesting Earthworks & Greywater Workshop with Brad Lancaster
Woodbine Ecology Center
Sedalia, CO
August 17–19, 2013

Full 3-Day Water-Harvesting Course: $425
Early-Bird Discounted Price (by July 15): $375

1-Day Greywater-only Option (August 19): $175
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EARTHWORKS: How to Plant the Rain (and Other On-site Waters) to Grow Sustainable Abundance
In order to better see the whole and our place within the hydrologic cycle, each earthworkshop begins with participants learning the Water-Harvesting Principles; basic watergy facts; integration of sun, water, and community; oasis zones; how to think like a plant; and various earthworks strategies. We then assess the site, identifying water resources and watersheds, asking and answering relevant site-specific questions, and testing our observations with simple tools. Equipped with a deeper understanding of the site and its water, we then place and create water-harvesting earthworks, guided by the Principles, key integration techniques, and the goal of living within the site’s sustainable water budget. Depending on the site, typical earthworks created in an workshop can include infiltration basins/rain gardens, one-rock check dams, contour berm ‘n basins/swales or boomerang berm ‘n basins, and terracing. Time and resources permitting, we will plant guilds of vegetation within/beside the earthworks and view a presentation of earthworks from around the world.
GREYWATER Assessment and Harvesting Class
This class begins with Brad’s greywater-harvesting presentation, followed by a hands-on site assessment of greywater-harvesting potential, analyzing the accessibility, quality, and volume of greywater that can be harvested on the site. The assessment will include how to make and use a simple, effective, cheap water level that can be used in creating all water-harvesting earthworks. Simple calculations and a soil percolation test will be used to determine the size of greywater-harvesting earthworks so they work, don’t flood, and don’t puddle. The session will wrap up with determining what plants can be planted in balance with the harvested greywater, so that, once established, the plants will thrive, irrigated only by harvested greywater and rainwater—no potable municipal or well water.
REGISTER HERE
Brad’s Plant the Rain course to be followed by Eric Toensmeier‘s 6-day course, Garden Like a Forest (August 23–28).
Register for both full courses by July 15 and save $175.

Brad Lancaster: Public Talk & Book Signing: Integrated Local Harvests, August 16, 2013 — Sedalia CO
2013-08-16
Brad will give a public talk and have his new Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd edition, on hand to sell & sign.
Where:
Woodbine Ecology Center, Sedalia CO
When:
Friday evening, August 16, 2013
Time TBA
More details to come…
The 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!
The Book:
Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 280 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life; reduce your cost of living; endow you with skills of self-reliance; and create community-building, living, air-conditioning vegetation that grows beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain, sun, wind, and shade into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!

Watershed Management Group & Brad Lancaster: WMG Co-op Potluck & Talk and Book-Signing with Brad, August 1, 2013 — Tucson AZ
2013-08-01 17:30 - 20:00
Join WMG on August 1 for their Co-op potluck & a talk and book signing with Brad!

Thursday, August 1, 2013
5:30–6:30 p.m. Co-op Potluck
6:30–8 p.m. Brad’s Talk
Habitat for Humanity Community Room
3501 N Mountain Ave
Tucson
Watershed Management Group’s Tucson Co-op is joining forces with Brad for WMG’s summer Co-op Potluck and Speaker event. Brad just released the long-awaited new edition of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, and invites you to celebrate the occasion with him!
Brad’s talk, Integrated Local Harvests: Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World, will explore strategies to harvest, integrate, and enhance free local resources—such as rain-, grey-, and stormwater; 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.
You’re welcome to arrive early for the local-foods potluck, or just come for the talk. For more information, and to register for the event, click here.

Brad Lancaster: Free Public Talk, Book Release & Water-Harvesting Demo, July 27, 2013 — Tucson AZ
2013-07-27 11:00 - 13:00
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

Brad Lancaster: San Diego Sustainable Living Institute Hands-on Earthworks & Greywater Workshop, June 29–30, 2013 — Lakeside CA
2013-06-29 - 2013-06-30
Join Brad and the San Diego Sustainable Living Institute for this hands-on water-harvesting workshop!

WHEN:
June 29–30, 2013
9 am – 5 pm each day
WHERE:
Blue Sky Ranch
Lakeside, California
HOW MUCH:
$350 for both days
$200 for one day only
WHAT:
This 2-day workshop will teach people how to plant water back in the landscape to create abundant gardens that not only provide food, but also shade, habitat, community, and more—using rainwater and greywater! When most people think about rainwater harvesting, the first thing that comes to mind is usually a barrel or a tank. However, there is a far cheaper, more widely applicable, and larger storage capacity method for harvesting rainwater: passive rain gardens or earthworks. A rain garden or earthwork is a term for sculpting the landscape to direct rainwater to where you need it and away from where you do not. These rain gardens then fill up and accumulate water every time it rains. There is no need to mess with hoses, plumbing parts, or expensive pumps. Just stand back and watch rainwater runoff walkways, driveways, patios, and other hardscapes right to where you need it. In this way you can double or even triple the amount of water that your plants would naturally receive and eliminate erosion at the same time!
Combining seasonal rainwater harvesting with year round perennial household greywater ensures that our gardens and landscapes are hydrated and water abundant. The greywater portion of the workshop will train people on how to best use greywater with the least amount of effort, materials, and energy. Greywater is any water generated from a shower, tub, washing machine, or sink that is re-used again for irrigation or other uses. Brad will show you how to design and install a simple, gravity fed greywater system from start to finish.
In this workshop, participants will learn everything they need to start harvesting rainwater and greywater. It will be a great opportunity for those with previous experience in Permaculture to take their knowledge to the next level, in addition to providing an excellent foundation to those just starting out. There will be a mix of theory and plenty of hands-on applications as all participants will assess the site and then install passive rainwater and greywater systems.
FMI: sdsustainable.org/event/rainwater-harvesting-earthworks
