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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Public Talk: Integrated Local Harvests\, October 3\, 2013 — Sedona AZ
DESCRIPTION:Please join Ecosa Institute (a sponsored program of Prescott College) and Keep Sedona Beautiful in welcoming Brad Lancaster to Sedona!\nBrad 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.\nDate: Thursday\, October 3\, 2013\nTime: 7 pm\nVenue: Keep Sedona Beautiful\, 360 Brewer Rd.\, Sedona\nDonations will be greatly appreciated!\nThe talk:\nIntegrated Local Harvests:\nSimple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home\, Community\, and the Larger World\nThis 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.\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 shade\, feeding the soil\, sailing with the wind\, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!\nThe Book:\nTurn 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.\nClearly 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!
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-public-talk-integrated-local-harvests-october-3-2013-sedona-az/
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster\, Guest Instructor with Wayne Weiseman: Water & Earthworks 4-Day Intensive\, September 26–29\, 2013 — Fountain City WI
DESCRIPTION:WATER & EARTHWORKS 4-DAY INTENSIVE COURSE\n(shortened from previous 9-day format)\nSeptember 26–29\, 2013\nKinstone Academy of Applied Permaculture\n Fountain City\, Wisconsin\nThe Course Basics:\nWe 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?\nBrad Lancaster\, an expert in rainwater harvesting and water management approaches\, is a guest instructor for 2 days of this course.\nFor more information and to register:\nkinstonecircle.com/1317/water-and-earthworks/
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-guest-instructor-with-wayne-weiseman-water-earthworks-4-day-intensive-september-26-29-2013-fountain-city-wi/
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Water Harvesting & Integrated Design Course\, September 13–16\, 2013—Castellana Grotte (BA)\, Italy
DESCRIPTION:September 13–16\, 2013\nBrad 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.\nFor all course details\, including costs\, registration\, site details\, and lodging\, contact Patrizia Mastroleo of hosting organization Masseria Atipica.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-water-harvesting-integrated-design-course-september-13-16-2013-castellana-grotte-ba-italy/
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Local Integrated Harvests Talk & Book-Signing\, September 7\, 2013 — South Tucson AZ
DESCRIPTION: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.\nWhere:\nSam Lena–South Tucson Branch of Pima County Library\n1607 S 6th Ave\nTucson\, AZ 85713\n(520) 594-5265 (main number)\nWhen:\nSaturday\, September 7\, 2013\n12 noon–1:30 pm\nCost: Free\nFMI:\nJon Meade\, Library Associate\njon.meade@pima.gov\n(520) 594-5267\nThe Talk:\nIntegrated Local Harvests:\nSimple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home\, Community\, and the Larger World\nThis 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.\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 shade\, feeding the soil\, sailing with the wind\, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!\nThe Book:\nTurn 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.\nClearly 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!
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-local-integrated-harvests-talk-book-signing-september-7-2013-south-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130904T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130904T133000
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Local Integrated Harvests Talk & Book-Signing at Western National Parks Association\, September 4\, 2013 — Oro Valley AZ
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nWhere:\n Western National Parks Association Store\n 12880 N Vistoso Village Drive\nTucson\, AZ 85755\n(Oro Valley)\nWhen:\n Wednesday\, September 4\, 2013\n noon–1:30 pm & \n2–3:30 pm \n(same talk both times)\nCost:\nFree\nFMI:\n Susan Cross\, Education & Outreach Manager\n susan@wnpa.org\n(520) 789-7405\nThe Talk:\n Integrated Local Harvests:\nSimple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home\, Community\, and the Larger World\nThis 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.\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 shade\, feeding the soil\, sailing with the wind\, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!\nThe Book:\nTurn 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.\nClearly 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!
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-local-integrated-harvests-talk-book-signing-at-western-national-parks-association-september-4-2013-oro-valley-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130831T140000
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Local Integrated Harvests Talk & Book-Signing\, August 31\, 2013 — Green Valley AZ
DESCRIPTION: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.\nWhere:\nJoyner-Green Valley Branch of Pima County Library\n601 N La Cañada Drive\nGreen Valley\, AZ 85614\nWhen:\nSaturday afternoon\, August 31\, 2013\n2–3:30 pm\nCost: Free\nFMI:\nRobin Green\, Librarian\nrobin.green@pima.gov\n(520) 594-5295\nThe Talk:\nIntegrated Local Harvests:\nSimple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home\, Community\, and the Larger World\nThis 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.\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 shade\, feeding the soil\, sailing with the wind\, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!\nThe Book:\nTurn 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.\nClearly 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!
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/6330/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130824T183000
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: "Integrated Local Harvests" Public Talk & Book-Signing\, August 24\, 2013 — Santa Fe NM
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, August 24\, 2013\n \nStarting 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.\nIndoor seating will begin at 6 pm\nStarting 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.\nBrad will begin his talk at 7 pm. The talk will be ASL-interpreted.\nBrad’s books—including the new & expanded 2nd edition of Volume 1\, will be available after his talk for sale and signing.\n>  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >\nJames A. Little Theater\nNew Mexico School for the Deaf\n1060 Cerrillos Road\nSanta Fe\, NM 87505\n(505) 827-6760\nSuggested donation: $5–$10 (no one turned away)\nTo prepay\, go to: bradlancaster.eventbrite.com\nClick to download the flyer.\nBRAD’S TALK:\nIntegrated Local Harvests:\nSimple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home\, Community\, and the Larger World\nThis 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.\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 shade\, feeding the soil\, sailing with the wind\, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!\nFMI about the event: Contact homegrownewmexico.org\, or call (505) 473-1403 or (505) 216-0675\nBRAD’S BOOK:\n Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands & Beyond\, Volume 1\, 2nd Edition\nTurn 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.\nClearly 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!\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-integrated-local-harvests-public-talk-book-signing-august-24-2013-santa-fe-nm/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130817
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Woodbine Ecology Center Water-Harvesting Workshop\, August 17–19\, 2013 — Sedalia CO
DESCRIPTION:Plant the Rain\nWater-Harvesting Earthworks & Greywater Workshop with Brad Lancaster\nWoodbine Ecology Center\nSedalia\, CO\n August 17–19\, 2013\n\n\n\nFull 3-Day Water-Harvesting Course: $425 \nEarly-Bird Discounted Price (by July 15): $375\n\n1-Day Greywater-only Option (August 19): $175\n.\nEARTHWORKS: How to Plant the Rain (and Other On-site Waters) to Grow Sustainable Abundance\nIn 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.\nGREYWATER Assessment and Harvesting Class\nThis 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.\nREGISTER HERE\nBrad’s Plant the Rain course to be followed by Eric Toensmeier‘s 6-day course\, Garden Like a Forest (August 23–28).\n Register for both full courses by July 15 and save $175.\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-3-day-hands-on-water-harvesting-workshop-august-17-19-2013-sedalia-co/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130816
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130817
DTSTAMP:20130607T213620Z
CREATED:20130607T213620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130607T213620Z
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Public Talk & Book Signing: Integrated Local Harvests\, August 16\, 2013 — Sedalia CO
DESCRIPTION: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.\nWhere:\nWoodbine Ecology Center\, Sedalia CO\nWhen:\nFriday evening\, August 16\, 2013\nTime TBA\nMore details to come…\nThe Talk:\nIntegrated Local Harvests:\nSimple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home\, Community\, and the Larger World\nThis 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.\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 shade\, feeding the soil\, sailing with the wind\, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!\nThe Book:\nTurn 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.\nClearly 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!
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-public-talk-book-signing-integrated-local-harvests-august-16-2013-sedalia-co/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130801T173000
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SUMMARY:Watershed Management Group & Brad Lancaster: WMG Co-op Potluck & Talk and Book-Signing with Brad\, August 1\, 2013 — Tucson AZ
DESCRIPTION:Join WMG on August 1 for their Co-op potluck & a talk and book signing with Brad!\n\nThursday\, August 1\, 2013\n5:30–6:30 p.m. Co-op Potluck\n6:30–8 p.m. Brad’s Talk\nHabitat for Humanity Community Room\n3501 N Mountain Ave\nTucson\nWatershed 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!\nBrad’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.\nYou’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.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/watershed-management-group-brad-lancaster-wmg-co-op-potluck-talk-and-book-signing-with-brad-august-1-2013-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130727T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130727T130000
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Free Public Talk\, Book Release & Water-Harvesting Demo\, July 27\, 2013 — Tucson AZ
DESCRIPTION: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.\nNow 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!\nBrad’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!\nWHEN:\nSaturday\, July 27\, 2013\n11 am – 1 pm\nWHERE:\nPima County Public Library\nMain Downtown Branch\n101 N Stone Ave\nTucson AZ 85701\nCOST:\nFree!\nDETAILS ABOUT BRAD’S TALK\nIntegrated Local Harvests: Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home\, Community\, and the Larger World\nThis 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.\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 shade\, feeding the soil\, sailing with the wind\, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!\nI 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.\nWHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT HIS BOOK\n“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.”\n—Kevin Dahl\, former Executive Director of Native Seeds/SEARCH and author of Native Harvest: Gardening with Authentic Southwestern Crops \n“This wonderful book overflows with effective ways to beneficially cycle and enhance local water supplies\, while maximizing free power from the sun.”\n—Sandra Postel\, founding director\, Global Water Policy Project; Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic Society\n“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.”\n—John Todd\, Ph.D.\, Research Professor and Distinguished Lecturer; President\, Ocean Arks International\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-free-public-talk-book-release-water-harvesting-demo-july-27-2013-tucson-az/
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: San Diego Sustainable Living Institute Hands-on Earthworks & Greywater Workshop\, June 29–30\, 2013 — Lakeside CA
DESCRIPTION:Join Brad and the San Diego Sustainable Living Institute for this hands-on water-harvesting workshop!\n\nWHEN:\nJune 29–30\, 2013\n9 am – 5 pm each day\nWHERE:\nBlue Sky Ranch\nLakeside\, California\nHOW MUCH:\n$350 for both days\n$200 for one day only\nWHAT:\nThis 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!\nCombining 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.\nIn 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.\nFMI: sdsustainable.org/event/rainwater-harvesting-earthworks
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-san-diego-sustainable-living-institute-hands-on-earthworks-greywater-workshop-june-29-30-2013-lakeside-ca/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130628T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130628T200000
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Book Signing & Public Talk: Integrated Local Harvests\, June 28\, 2013 — San Diego CA
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to Josh Robinson of San Diego Sustainable Living Institute for making this free public talk possible!\nWHEN:\nFriday evening\, June 28\n6:30–8 pm\nWHERE:\nCounty of San Diego’s Chambers Room\n5520 Overland Avenue\, San Diego CA 92123\nPark in the parking structure off of Farnum\, and from the elevator walk west past the cafeteria and turn to the right.  Chambers Room is on the right.\nFMI:\nContact SDSLI at info@sdsustainable.org\n\nABOUT THE NEW\, EXPANDED EDITION OF VOLUME 1—AVAILABLE FOR SALE & SIGNING:\nTurn 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.\nClearly 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!\nABOUT THE TALK:\nIntegrated Local Harvests:\nSimple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home\, Community\, and the Larger World\nThis 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.\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 shade\, feeding the soil\, sailing with the wind\, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!\nABOUT BRAD:\nBrad Lancaster is a dynamic teacher\, consultant\, and designer of regenerative systems that sustainably enhance local resources and our global potential. He is also the author of the award-winning\, best-selling book series Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond; the information-packed website www.HarvestingRainwater.com; and the ‘Drops in a Bucket’ Blog.\nBrad has taught throughout North America as well as in the Middle East\, Asia\, and Australia. His hometown projects have included working with the City of Tucson and other municipalities to legalize\, incentivize\, and provide guidance on water-harvesting systems\, demonstration sites\, and policy. He has likewise collaborated with state agencies to promote practices that transform local “wastes” into enhanced soil fertility. Brad’s aim is always to boost communities’ true health and wealth by using simple overlapping strategies to augment the region’s hydrology\, ecosystems\, economies\, local food and renewable power production\, citizens’ capabilities and cooperation\, joy\, and beauty.\nBrad lives his talk on an oasis-like demonstration site he created and continually improves with his brother and neighbors in downtown Tucson\, Arizona. On this eighth of an acre and surrounding public right-of-way\, they harvest 100\,000 gallons of rainwater a year where less than 12 inches fall from the sky. In addition\, the site’s sun-\, wind-\, and shade-harvesting systems power both Brad’s and his brother’s homes\, and help power those of their neighbors. Brad is motivated in his work by the tens of thousands of people he has helped inspire to do likewise\, go further\, and continue our collective evolution.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-book-signing-public-talk-integrated-local-harvests-june-28-2013-san-diego-ca/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130626T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130626T210000
DTSTAMP:20130607T030509Z
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Book Signing & Public Talk: Integrated Local Harvests\, June 26\, 2013 — Los Angeles CA
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to event sponsors:\nLos Angeles Eco-Village Collaborative\, \nCRSP Institute for Urban Eco-Villages\, \nUrban Soil-Tierra Urbana Co-op\, \nBeverly-Vermont Community Land Trust\, and \nGreywater Action\nfor making this event possible!\nWHEN:\nWednesday evening\, June 26\n7:30–9 pm\nWHERE:\nL.A. Eco-Village\n117 Bimini Place\nLos Angeles CA 90004\nCOST:\n$5–$10 sliding scale (no one turned away)\nCLICK HERE FMI\nABOUT THE NEW\, EXPANDED EDITION OF VOLUME 1—AVAILABLE FOR SALE & SIGNING:\nTurn 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.\nClearly 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!\nABOUT THE TALK:\nIntegrated Local Harvests:\nSimple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home\, Community\, and the Larger World\nThis 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.\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 shade\, feeding the soil\, sailing with the wind\, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!\nABOUT BRAD:\nBrad Lancaster is a dynamic teacher\, consultant\, and designer of regenerative systems that sustainably enhance local resources and our global potential. He is also the author of the award-winning\, best-selling book series Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond; the information-packed website www.HarvestingRainwater.com; and the ‘Drops in a Bucket’ Blog.\nBrad has taught throughout North America as well as in the Middle East\, Asia\, and Australia. His hometown projects have included working with the City of Tucson and other municipalities to legalize\, incentivize\, and provide guidance on water-harvesting systems\, demonstration sites\, and policy. He has likewise collaborated with state agencies to promote practices that transform local “wastes” into enhanced soil fertility. Brad’s aim is always to boost communities’ true health and wealth by using simple overlapping strategies to augment the region’s hydrology\, ecosystems\, economies\, local food and renewable power production\, citizens’ capabilities and cooperation\, joy\, and beauty.\nBrad lives his talk on an oasis-like demonstration site he created and continually improves with his brother and neighbors in downtown Tucson\, Arizona. On this eighth of an acre and surrounding public right-of-way\, they harvest 100\,000 gallons of rainwater a year where less than 12 inches fall from the sky. In addition\, the site’s sun-\, wind-\, and shade-harvesting systems power both Brad’s and his brother’s homes\, and help power those of their neighbors. Brad is motivated in his work by the tens of thousands of people he has helped inspire to do likewise\, go further\, and continue our collective evolution.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-public-talk-integrated-local-harvests-june-26-2013-los-angeles-ca/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130625T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130625T210000
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Book Signing & Public Talk: Integrated Local Harvests\, June 25\, 2013 — Santa Barbara CA
DESCRIPTION:Santa Barbara Permaculture Network &\n Sweetwater Collaborative Present:\n Booksigning & Evening Talk with\nBrad Lancaster\n \nauthor of\nRainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, \nVolume 1\, 2nd Edition\nTuesday\, June 25\, 2013\n7:30 pm\, $5 donation\nSanta Barbara Central Library\, Faulkner Gallery\n40 East Anapamu St\, Santa Barbara\nClick poster below to download:\n\nRainwater-harvesting expert Brad Lancaster returns to Santa Barbara with his newly published 2nd edition of his award-winning\, best-selling book Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volume 1\, on Tuesday\, June 25.\n\nABOUT THE BOOK:\nTurn 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.\nClearly 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!\nABOUT THE TALK:\nIntegrated Local Harvests:\nSimple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home\, Community\, and the Larger World\nThis 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.\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 shade\, feeding the soil\, sailing with the wind\, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks! \nCo-sponsored by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network & Sweetwater Collaborative\nFor more information\, please call (805) 962-2571\, margie@sbpermaculture.org \nABOUT BRAD:\nBrad Lancaster is a dynamic teacher\, consultant\, and designer of regenerative systems that sustainably enhance local resources and our global potential. He is also the author of the award-winning\, best-selling book series Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond; the information-packed website www.HarvestingRainwater.com; and the ‘Drops in a Bucket’ Blog.\nBrad has taught throughout North America as well as in the Middle East\, Asia\, and Australia. His hometown projects have included working with the City of Tucson and other municipalities to legalize\, incentivize\, and provide guidance on water-harvesting systems\, demonstration sites\, and policy. He has likewise collaborated with state agencies to promote practices that transform local “wastes” into enhanced soil fertility. Brad’s aim is always to boost communities’ true health and wealth by using simple overlapping strategies to augment the region’s hydrology\, ecosystems\, economies\, local food and renewable power production\, citizens’ capabilities and cooperation\, joy\, and beauty.\nBrad lives his talk on an oasis-like demonstration site he created and continually improves with his brother and neighbors in downtown Tucson\, Arizona. On this eighth of an acre and surrounding public right-of-way\, they harvest 100\,000 gallons of rainwater a year where less than 12 inches fall from the sky. In addition\, the site’s sun-\, wind-\, and shade-harvesting systems power both Brad’s and his brother’s homes\, and help power those of their neighbors. Brad is motivated in his work by the tens of thousands of people he has helped inspire to do likewise\, go further\, and continue our collective evolution.\n  \nEvent Sponsors:\nSanta Barbara Permaculture Network\n  www.sbpermaculture.org\n&\nSweetwater Collaborative\n  www.sweetwatercollaborative.org  \n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-public-talk-integrated-local-harvests-june-25-2013-santa-barbara-ca/
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Sierra EcoSummit & Festival\, June 23\, 2013 — Groveland CA
DESCRIPTION:Complete information to come.\nMeanwhile\, check out basic event info at www.sierraecosummit.org.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-sierra-ecosummit-festival-june-23-2013-groveland-ca/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130622T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130622T170000
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster & Great Basin Permaculture: One-Day Water-Harvesting Seminar\, June 22\, 2013 — Las Vegas NV
DESCRIPTION:Join Great Basin Permaculture and Brad Lancaster for a one-day seminar in water harvesting and conservation!\nWHAT:\nA one-day seminar on the most important issue challenging our community’s vitality. Brad Lancaster\, a leading authority in the water-conservation movement\, will teach Las Vegans how to achieve more with less—moving the discussion beyond typical restrictions to topics such as rainwater harvesting\, designing for resilience\, and earthwork construction.\nWHEN:\nSaturday\, June 22\n9 am: Networking breakfast and registration\n10 am – 5 pm:  Presentations\, breakout sessions\, roundtable discussions. Lunch will be served.\nWHERE:\nDowntown Construction Zone\n102 S 7th St\, between Fremont St & Carson Ave\nWHY:\nFinding new ways to live sustainably is an imperative to keeping our community healthy and strong. Recently\, the Colorado River was named the most endangered in the country\, and the Bureau of Reclamation recently released a report forecasting severe water loss due to climate change. This seminar will be packed with strategies attendees can implement immediately. Lancaster will teach specific pathways to resilience; for instance\, how to use greywater for landscaping… and make it legal—as it already is in our surrounding states!\nFMI:\nContact Peter Frigeri at peter@greatbasinpermaculture.org
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-great-basin-permaculture-one-day-water-harvesting-seminar-june-22-2013-las-vegas-nv/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130620T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130620T200000
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Public Talk: Integrated Local Harvests\, June 20\, 2013 — Boulder UT
DESCRIPTION:Integrated Local Harvests: \nSimple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Abundance of Your Home\, Community\, and the Larger World \nThe talk will be followed by book sales & signing of Brad’s new edition of Volume 1\n\nWhen: Thursday\, June 20\, 6–8 pm.\nWhere: Red House Farm\, Boulder\, Utah\nCost: Free. Donations welcome to cover the speaker’s travel expenses.\nJoin Brad Lancaster\, author of the award-winning books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (Volumes 1 and 2)\, to celebrate the new edition of his first book and to explore different ways to create an a natural abundance. Brad will share a diverse array of strategies to assess your on-site resources\, maximize their potential\, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated\, multi-functional plan specific to your site and needs. \nThis dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest\, integrate\, and enhance free local resources – such as rainwater\, greywater\, 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.\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 shade\, feeding the soil\, sailing with the wind\, and living as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!\nThe talk is hosted by True Nature Sustainable Living & Wilderness School (special thanks to Eden Gal!) and will be followed by a book signing of Brad’s new edition of Rainwater Harvesting Volume 1.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/tentative-brad-lancaster-public-talk-integrated-local-harvests-june-20-2013-boulder-ut/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130609T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130609T160000
DTSTAMP:20130501T000623Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20130501T000623Z
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Hands-on Earthworks & Acequia Workshop\, June 9\, 2013 — Albuquerque NM
DESCRIPTION:Date: Sunday\, June 9\, 2013\nTime: 10 am to 4 pm\nBrad will be leading a hands-on workshop at Kalyx Studio Learning Center in Bernalillo County’s South Valley.\nParticipants will learn and practice earthwork techniques used in water-harvesting systems. The workshop will focus specifically on earthworks that can be implemented to improve the efficiency of acequia irrigation for the home garden.\nAlthough we will be constructing a system that combines traditional desert-gardening practices with water-harvesting techniques as applied to acequia irrigation\, all of the techniques relate directly to working with rainwater and greywater systems.\nAt this time the workshop is full\, but there is a wait list in the event of cancellations. Inquiries can be directed to workshop organizer Leslie Buerk at info@kalyxstudio.com.
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-hands-on-earthworks-acequia-workshop-june-9-2013-albuquerque-nm/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130607T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130607T200000
DTSTAMP:20130430T235115Z
CREATED:20130430T235115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130430T235115Z
UID:5883-1370628000-1370635200@www.harvestingrainwater.com
SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Free Public Talk on Water-Harvesting & Integrated Design\, June 7\, 2013 — Albuquerque NM
DESCRIPTION:Brad will give his classic water-harvesting talk with new material on integrated design.\n\nTime: 6–8 pm\nVenue: Garcia Honda Auditorium—George Pearl Hall\nUniversity of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning\, Albuquerque\nCost: Free\nRefreshments graciously provided by La Montañita Co-op.\nWe are crossing our fingers that the much-awaited new edition of Brad’s Volume 1 in the Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond series will be hot off the press and available for sale and signing after Brad’s talk. Volume 2 will be available.\nFMI: Contact Amanda at Erda Gardens: info@erdagardens.org  |  (505) 610-1538  |  www.erdagardens.org\nThank you to the following organizations for making this event happen!  \n\nErda Gardens and Learning Center \nKalyx Studio\nPermaculture Institute\nQuerencia Green\nUniversity of New Mexico’s Sustainability Studies Program
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-free-public-talk-on-water-harvesting-integrated-design-june-7-2013-albuquerque-nm/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130524T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130524T220000
DTSTAMP:20130507T173411Z
CREATED:20130507T173411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130507T173411Z
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Conferencia Pública de Cosecha de Agua de Lluvia y Reforestación Urbana\, 24–25 de mayo 2013 — La Paz\, México
DESCRIPTION:Niparajá A.C. y Raíz De Fondo A.C. te invitan a:\n\n“Conferencia Pública de Cosecha de Agua de Lluvia y Reforestación Urbana”\nPonente Principal:  Brad Lancaster\nPresentación:  7:30PM – 10:00PM viernes\, 24 de mayo 2013\, Jardín Comunitario Sabores De La Tierra (Nayarit #40\, Col. Manglito\, a media cuadra de la playa)\nIntervención:  9:00AM – 1:00PM sábado\, 25 de mayo 2013\, Jardín Comunitario Encinas (Calle Guillermo Prieto 1016\, esq. Encinas\, Col. Centro)\n\nTú puedes crear tu propio OASIS en tu patio\, en la banqueta frente de tu casa\, en espacios públicos… Y lo puedes hacer con AGUA DE LLUVIA.\nEste evento es gratuito y abierto a todo público\, y será hablado en español y inglés simultaneamente.  ¡Invita a quien quieras!\nCanalizando el agua pluvial correctamente y a muy bajo costo\, podemos crear espacios verdes\, recargar acuíferos y reducir inundaciones en sus espacios públicos y desarrollos.  En este evento se reunirá el sector público\, turístico\, de la construcción y el público en general para aprender de alternativas comprobadas que aumentarán la calidad de vida para todos que habitamos en Baja California Sur.\nBrad Lancaster nos visita desde Tucson\, Arizona\, una región con un clima desértico y población muy parecidos a La Paz.  En su patio urbano de 500 m2 él logra recolectar más de 375\,000 litros de agua pluvial al año para alimentar su jardín de plantas comestibles\, medicinales y de sombra.  Autor de dos libros sobre el tema\, Brad ha diseñado e instalado docenas de proyectos públicos y particulares para capturar\, guardar y utilizar el agua pluvial para reforestar paisajes urbanos.\nEste evento es gratuito y abierto a todo público.  ¡Invita a quien quieras!\nPara mayores informes visita: www.raizdefondo.org\nTambién\, si quieres saber más sobre el tema sugerimos que veas la pagina de Brad Lancaster www.www.harvestingrainwater.com/ y este video en Youtube para tener una idea de que tanta agua podemos recolectar en La Paz….\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nPublic Conference on Rainwater Harvesting and Urban Reforestation\nTheory: 19:30 hrs. Friday\, May 24\, Sabores De La Tierra Community Garden (Nayarit #40\, Col. El Manglito\, a half block from the beach)\nPractice Installation: 09:00 hrs. Saturday\, May 25\, Encinas Community Garden (Guillermo Prieto #1016\, corner of Encinas\, Col. Centro)\nYou can create your own OASIS in your patio\, on the sidewalk in front of your home\, in public spaces… And you can do it with RAIN WATER.\nThis Friday and Saturday we’ll teach you how with BRAD LANCASTER\, author of 2 books on the subject and leader in the urban reforestation in drylands.  This workshop is free and open to the public.  For more info visit www.raizdefondo.org   Invite a friend!\n(This event will be spoken in English and Spanish simultaneously.)\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-conferencia-publica-de-cosecha-de-agua-de-lluvia-y-reforestacion-urbana/
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Free Public Talk on Water Harvesting and Integrated Design\, April 12\, 2013—Phoenix AZ
DESCRIPTION:Brad will be giving a version of his classic water-harvesting talk\, updated to include more information on integrated design.\nDate: Friday\, April 12\, 2013\n Time: 6–7:30 pm\nLocation: Phoenix City Hall\, 200 W Washington St\, Phoenix\n Room: Assembly Rooms A\, B\, & C\nFree parking at City Hall garage if you arrive before 6 pm!\nEvent information can also be found on the City of Phoenix’s Water Services Facebook page\, at WaterUseItWisely.com and on Water—Use It Wisely’s Facebook page (if not yet posted\, it will be soon!).\nThanks to the City of Phoenix for hosting this event on behalf of ADWR and AMWUA as part of Water Awareness Month!
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-free-public-talk-on-water-harvesting-and-integrated-design-april-12-2013-phoenix-az/
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130414
DTSTAMP:20121203T221955Z
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SUMMARY:WMG Instructors: Water-Harvesting Certification Course\, April 5–13\, 2013 — Tucson AZ
DESCRIPTION:Note: Brad is one of many instructors for this course.\n\nThe WMG Water Harvesting Certification program is a hands-on training course that provides certification in water-harvesting-system design and implementation. WMG’s goal is to transfer water-harvesting knowledge to those who will utilize these practices in their professions and\, in turn\, teach the practices to others. Our program provides the highest quality and greatest depth of training in integrative water harvesting offered in the nation.\nThe course teaches design\, implementation\, and installation of: \n\nGreywater systems\nWater-harvesting earthworks\nPlastic cisterns\n\n\nEarly Registration: Apply by January 21\, 2013.  Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the course is full\, so early applications are encouraged.  $1\,100 course fee\, including gourmet local-food lunch each day of the training.\nRegular Registration: Apply by February 25\, 2013.  $1\,250 course fee\, including gourmet local-food lunch each day of the training. \nFor more information and to apply  visit http://watershedmg.org/tech-trainings
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/wmg-instructors-water-harvesting-certification-course-april-5-13-2013-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130313
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130317
DTSTAMP:20130218T022133Z
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster & Joel Glanzberg: 4-Day Permaculture Interactive Series\, March 13–16\, 2013 — Moab UT
DESCRIPTION:Click image below to visit Community Rebuilds’ website for event details and maps.\nClick image above to visit Community Rebuilds’ website\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-joel-glanzberg-4-day-permaculture-interactive-series-march-13-16-2013-moab-ut/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130302
DTSTAMP:20121221T032007Z
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SUMMARY:Brad Lancaster: Dig In! Food and Farming Festival\, March 1–2\, 2013 — Fayetteville AR
DESCRIPTION:Click image above to visit the Festival website\nThe festival will be taking place at the University of Arkansas Global Campus in Fayetteville\nFrom the Dig In! organizers:\nHere’s an overview of the 2013 festival!   We hope you will consider buying a supporter pass if you are able\, but remember the conference is offered by donation also so that it is available to everyone. Suggested donation is $5 per class\, film\, talk. It’s going to be a great time. \n \nAll events take place at UA Global Campus on the Fayetteville Square. Map here.   When you arrive\, check in at registration booth in street-level lobby. You will get a detailed program at check in. \nThursday\, February 28\n\nAfter School Special—4:00-5:30 p.m. What’s on Your Plate – a fun-filled movie about where food comes\nfrom. The film follows two eleven-year-old city kids as they talk to food activists\, farmers\, new friends\,\nstorekeepers\, their families\, and the viewer\, in their quest to understand what’s on all of our plates. This\nmovie is free and open to the public – everyone welcome. This is a great film for kids\, but adults will love it\ntoo. Donations gratefully accepted. A co-production with Apple Seeds\, Inc.\n\n\nEvening—Films: Festival Starters 7 p.m. Truck Farm and 7:55 Fresh This showing of Fresh sponsored by the Fayetteville Chapter of The Weston A. Price Foundation.\n\n\n\nFriday\, March 1: Farmer Friday\nOne morning track designed for farmers and aspiring farmers. A second morning track for gardeners with some experience. Followed by a special keynote presentation of interest to both groups and and to water conservationists too.  Farmer Friday is offered by donation\, with $20 suggested for the full day\, but we want Farmer Friday available to all growers who are interested\, so please come as you are! \n\n9:00-9:30 Registration and Welcome: Street level Lobby\n\n\nFarmers Morning Session 1: 9:30 to 10:45—”How to Sell More” Lori Boatwright\, Public and Media Coordinator\, Fayetteville Farmers Market\, and Nicki McNelly\, Manager\, Bentonville Farmers Market\n\n\nFarmers Morning Session 2: 11:00-12:00—”Small Farm Financing” Charlie Stockton\, FORGE\, Financing Ozark Rural Growth and Economy (forgeonline.com)\n\n\nGardeners Morning Session 1: 9:30 to 10:45—“The Generous Garden: Designing Landscapes That Give As They Grow” with Leigh Wilkerson & “Backyard Fruit” with Guy Ames. \n\n\nGardeners ( & Growers welcome too)  Session 2: 11:00-12:00 — “Fundamentals of no-till gardening: start and run a garden or farm with no machine\, high yields and great peace” with Patrice Gros. \n\n\n12 noon: Lunch and Conversation: Lunch provided by Ozark Natural Foods for full-day participants.\n\n\nAfternoon Keynote Session & Conversation: 1:00-4:00—“Planting the Rain: Principles\, Practices\, and Tips for Water-Harvesting Earthworks & more” Brad Lancaster\, author  of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond. Food is virtual water – originating from the source of irrigation. Local\, sustainable food is all the rage\, but we can take it further by growing that food with local\, sustainable water. This talk covers the growing of food using rainwater  for irrigation. Case studies include rain-fed greenhouses\, dryfarming\, backyard market gardens \, and climate-appropriate plantings.\n\n  \nFriday Evening\, March 1: Opening Night & Film Premieres!!\n\nOpening Reception sponsored by BHK Kafe and Arsaga’s at The Depot— 5: 30 p.m. Come and kick off the main festival with all of our friends\, supporters\, volunteers\, teachers\, and sponsors.  (This ticketed event is included in Foodie\, Locavore\, and Friend of the Farm Passes\, or $15 per ticket)\n\n\nFarmer Friday:  FILM PREMIERE NIGHT starts at  7 p.m. Join us for the Arkansas premieres of Eating Alabama at 7 p.m.  and To Make a Farm* at 8:15. Two delightful new films\, not to be missed\, were the favorites of your Dig In! coordinators and are the highlight of our film series.  Included in supporters passes; suggested donation $5/film.\n\n  \nSaturday\, March 2: The Big Day!\n Classes & Films Included in all Festival Passes or $5 suggested donation per session; seed swap and information/vendor fair are free. \n8-9 Registration & Coffee. Info & Vendor Fair Opens. Info/Vendor fair.\nCLASS SCHEDULE:\n9-10am Concurrent Class Session 1 \nEMMA: EASY BRASSICAS & COOL WEATHER GREENS\nDANA & LEIGH: EDIBLE LANDSCAPES\nMARY: CANNING & PRESERVING\nPATRICE: WINTER HARVEST\nCHEF LEWIS: COOKING IN SEASON\n \n1030-1130am Concurrent Class Session 2 \n \nMARIAH & IRA: BACKYARD CHICKENS\nJANE: COMPOSTING FOR BETTER SOILS\nKARYN: EASY HERBS TO GROW AND COOK\nTIFFANY: BUDGET BEGINNER ORGANIC GARDENS\nCHEF TUESDAY: COOKING IN SEASON\n \n1130-130p Lunch Break/ Vendor Fair/ Interest Group Roundtables/ FREE Community Seed Swap by Fayetteville Community Garden Coalition. \n11:30-12:30 Sponsored Tasting: Lean Green Gourmet. Visit their table in the Information & Vendor Fair\n12:30-1:30 Sponsored Tasting: Greenhouse Grille Visit their table in the Information & Vendor Fair\n12:00-1:00 Interest Roundtables: Community conversations\, totally casual. Meet up with other folks who share your interests and share information.\n•Lexicon of Food: What do the terms organic\, local\, locavore really mean? Farmer James Maginot of Beyond Organics Farm will moderate this discussion on the terminology of the food movement.\n•Urban Gardening: Peter Nierengarten\, Director of Sustainability and Strategic Planning for the City of\nFayetteville will moderate this conversation on the particular challenges and opportunities of growing within cities.\n•Find Your Food: Local Markets\, CSAs & More. Farmers Mariah and Ira of Summer Kitchen Farm will moderate this conversation on exploring options to eat more locally.\n \n130-330p PUBLIC KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: BRAD LANCASTER\nClassic Water-Harvesting Presentation: Turning Drains Into Sponges and Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance\n This inspiring  presentation shares eight universal principles of water harvesting along with simple strategies that turn water scarcity into water abundance. They empower you to create integrated water-sustainable landscape plans at home and throughout your community. Rainwater harvesting is the process of capturing rain and making the most of it as close as possible to where it falls. 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.\n3:30-4:00 Sponsored Tasting: Ozark Natural Foods Tasting table in the Information & Vendor Fair area (4th Floor).\n400-500pm Concurrent Class Session 3 \nCELESTE: MAKING MEDICINALS WITH HERBS\nCAT & LUCY: FERMENTED FOODS FOR BEGINNERS\nLEIGH: BEGINNER BEEKEEPING\nGUY: GROWING BACKYARD FRUIT\nHERB: SEED SAVING (Followed by an “Advanced Seed Savers Exchange”  by Fayetteville Community Garden Coalition. See details here. \n \nSaturday Evening—FESTIVAL FILMS: Make A Difference Night Films start at 6:30 King Corn (90 min) \, 8:10 Big River (27 min) 8:40 Homegrown Revolution (14 min) (Included in all Festival Passes\, or $5 per film suggested donation) \nStay tuned to this page for more news coming soon.  You will receive a program with all event details when you register at the festival Thurs\, Fri or Sat.  Please join us.\nCost:  The festival is offered  by donation. It is a not-for-profit event and your contributions and those of our sponsors make the festival happen. If you can\, please consider a supporters pass.   You can also get a pass at the festival and/or donate what you can. Mainly: we want everyone to be able to attend—so come as you are!\nMap\, directions\, parking info here: http://diginfestival.com/map_parking/\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/brad-lancaster-dig-in-food-and-farming-festival-march-1-2-2013-fayetteville-ar/
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SUMMARY:Regular Registration Deadline for WMG's Water-Harvesting Certification Course\, Spring 2013 — Tucson AZ
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URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/2012/12/03/wmg-instructors-water-harvesting-certification-course-april-5-13-2013-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130221T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130221T100000
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SUMMARY:WMG Webinar: Extreme Composting: Using Human Waste to Enhance Soil in Case Studies from Around the World\, with Diane Austin and Sowmya Somnath — February 21\, 2013
DESCRIPTION:Extreme Composting: Using Human Waste to Enhance Soil in Case Studies from Around the World\nA free WMG webinar with Diane Austin and Sowmya Somnath\n\nFebruary 21\, 2013\n9–10 AM MST\nComposting toilets are particularly useful in parts of the world with limited sanitation infrastructure\, but there are many barriers to implementation\, including social stigma\, limited resources\, and building community capacity to maintain systems.  Dr. Diane Austin of the University of Arizona and Watershed Management Group’s own Sowmya Somnath will discuss projects they have led in India\, Burkina Faso\, and Mexico and will discuss the challenges and successes of implementing community-based eco-sanitation projects.\nClick here to register for this webinar.\n 
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/wmg-webinar-extreme-composting-using-human-waste-to-enhance-soil-in-case-studies-from-around-the-world-with-diane-austin-and-sowmya-somnath-february-21-2013/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130122
DTSTAMP:20121203T222158Z
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SUMMARY:Early Registration Deadline for WMG's Water-Harvesting Certification Course\, Spring 2013 — Tucson AZ
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URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/2012/12/03/wmg-instructors-water-harvesting-certification-course-april-5-13-2013-tucson-az/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130122
DTSTAMP:20121203T221450Z
CREATED:20121203T221450Z
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SUMMARY:Regular Registration Deadline for WMG's Water-Harvesting Certification Course\, Winter 2013 — Phoenix AZ
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URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/2012/12/03/wmg-instructors-water-harvesting-certification-course-february-22-march-2-2013-phoenix-az/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130113
DTSTAMP:20121209T192531Z
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SUMMARY:Valley Permaculture Alliance w/ Brad Lancaster: Permaculture Design Course\, January–June 2013 — Phoenix AZ
DESCRIPTION:The 2013 Permaculture Design Course: Drylands (PDC)\, offered by the Valley Permaculture Alliance (VPA)\, teaches an approach that will provide you the skills to observe your world\, garden\, home\, and life with a fresh and new perspective. Permaculture is a holistic approach to life that can benefit you both personally and professionally.\nEarly registration deadline: December 20\, 2012\nThe PDC is a comprehensive program designed for anyone wanting to learn the principles in applying nature awareness\, energy systems\, water supplies and so much more to desert home landscapes\, gardens\, and communities. This year\, unique to all previously taught VPA PDC programs\, you can take as few sessions as you like\, or all 12 sessions earning you the PDC Certification—the choice is yours.\nThe VPA is bringing in locally known and nationally recognized experts to present and demonstrate real-world examples of permaculture principles and how to apply them to your life. This is an opportunity to meet and learn from highly respected instructors from the global stage\, plus local teachers that possess first-hand experience of our unique area.\nAll dates and topics are now open for registration with a limited-time early-bird discount. Those who take all ten January–May classes will be enrolled in two additional classes in June specific to the Permaculture Design Project.\nFor an overview of the course: http://www.phoenixpermaculture.org/page/pdc-course\nFor course topics and schedule: http://www.phoenixpermaculture.org/page/pdc-schedule\nFor registration and payment information: http://www.phoenixpermaculture.org/page/register-payment\nFor a list of instructors and their bios: http://www.phoenixpermaculture.org/page/instructor-bios
URL:https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/event/valley-permaculture-alliance-w-brad-lancaster-permaculture-design-course-january-june-2013-phoenix-az/
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