Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster

Jeff & Ana Sanders: Animal Processing Workshop, February 18-19, 2012 – Tucson AZ
2012-02-18 - 2012-02-19
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Animal Processing Workshop
Presented by Jeff & Ana Sanders ~ Hosted by Brad Lancaster

*see below for identification of pictured items
This workshop is currently full, but we will be happy to accept names for a wait list in the event of cancellations.
During this two-day workshop students will learn to slaughter, skin, eviscerate, butcher, and cook a medium-sized animal (sheep or goat) in a traditional way, using little more than one’s knife.
Jeff and Ana will teach you how to:

Identify all the parts of the animal
Cook the edible parts, such as the muscles, intestines, some organs
Process the hide, sinew, intestines, bones, and hooves to where they can used to make tools, clothing, musical instruments, or adornments. Examples include bone tools, sinew & intestine cordage, hoof rattles, hide glue, & more. Examples of such items will be available and students will have the opportunity to work on these projects.

The workshop includes lunch & dinner, cooked by the students during the workshop. Vegetarians are welcome!
Cost: $40 per person
Date: Saturday & Sunday, February 18 & 19, 8:15 am – 6 pm
Location: Dunbar/Spring neighborhood (north of downtown). Address will be provided upon receipt of deposit.
A minimum of 7 students will be required for the workshop to run
Limited spaces available – pre-registration is advised
Reserve a space with a $20 deposit (non-refundable after February 1)
Students will be required to sign a waiver acknowledging and accepting full responsibility for any possible injuries that could be sustained during a hands-on workshop involving knives and exposure to blood.
To register or with questions, email admin@HarvestingRainwater.com or call (520) 777-0049
To download a copy of the flyer, click: Sanders Animal Processing Workshop
*The items pictured above are (from left to right):
Top Row: Back-strap sinew (cleaned and dried)
Second Row: Felted wool pouch, hoof and buckskin rattle, buckskin pouch with a scrimshawed bone button
Bottom Row: deer-hock pouch, bone needle, two styles of bone awls, bone knife
Bottom Right Corner (right of bone knife), counterclockwise: bone whistle, two bone dice, six bone gaming sticks, sinew bowstring, small-intestine cordage, sheep-horn cup, and chips of dried hide glue
About the workshop:
The focus of the workshop is to help people experience a lifestyle that is closer to the earth and the things we need to sustain life. Raising or processing one’s own food means that it is not shipped thousands or even hundreds of miles. The impact we create when we process our own food is seen more immediately and directly instead of being spatially separated from us. This way we are less insulated from the true impact our life has on the entirety.
Lessons learned with domestic animals are directly transferable to working with animals of any size, domestic or hunted.
Vegetarians that have taken past workshops have said that they would consider eating meats that are not processed industrially, as a healthful and ethical choice. Many of Jeff and Ana’s past participants are inspired to find farms where they may become more connected with the life of the animal and the meat they eat.
The workshop is very hands-on and includes a focused anatomy lesson.
We will use as much of the animal as possible in the time available. The workshop is more about the animal than about the food, for this reason Jeff and Ana have streamlined the cooking portions of the workshop so that less energy is used on cooking allowing for more time and energy spent learning about the processing.
Short bios for the instructors, Ana and Jeff:
Ana and Jeff live in southern Utah with their two-year-old daughter. Their lifestyle is very much rural with a focus of raising, hunting or obtaining locally a significant portion of our food.
Jeff learned animal processing at the Boulder Outdoor Survival School (B.O.S.S.) beginning in 2000. He has worked in many capacities at BOSS since 2000, and in 2011 was able to return to teaching full time in the field. Last year he felt it would be valuable to expand the web of the animal-processing lessons and started teaching this workshop at primitive skills gatherings and for other organizations.
Ana has also taught at BOSS, focussing primarily on teaching primitive-living skills. Currently, she takes care of a dairy cow which has provided the family with milk, cheese, yogurt and butter and also takes care of the garden and orchard. She owns a small business, through which she designs and makes jewelry with silver and semi-precious stones.

Brad Lancaster: ProGreen EXPO, February 10, 2012 – Denver CO
2012-02-10 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
ProGreen EXPO 2012 spans from February 7-10 this year, featuring over 100 seminars (including several in Spanish) and 650 booths at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
Brad will be giving the following talk twice on Friday, February 10, once at 8 am and again at 10:30 am.
Turning Drains Into Sponges and Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance
This inspiring power point presentation shares eight universal principles of water harvesting along with simple strategies that turn water scarcity into water abundance. They empower you to create integrated water-sustainable landscape plans at home and throughout your community. Rainwater harvesting is the process of capturing rain and making the most of it as close as possible to where it falls. Greywater harvesting is the process of directing water from household sink, bathtub, shower, and washing-machine drains into the soils of the landscape where the water is naturally filtered and reused to generate more on-site resources. The two work hand in hand, and can reduce our water consumption by 30 to 50%! You’ll see examples enhancing local food security, passively cooling cities in summer, reducing costs of living and energy consumption, controlling erosion, averting flooding, reviving dead waterways, minimizing water pollution, building community, creating celebration, and more.
For more information about ProGreen EXPO, visit: www.progreenexpo.com.
Questions? Please contact ProGreen EXPO at the numbers below with any questions or comments you may have.

email:

info@progreenexpo.com

toll-free:

(800) 397-6665 (EXPO)

phone:

(303) 756-1079 (Exhibitors)

(720) 748-4872 (Seminars)

Watershed Management Group: Soil Steward Composting Toilet Program Info Session, February 9, 2012 – Tucson AZ
2012-02-09 18:00 - 20:00
Soil Steward Composting Toilet Program: Seeking Participants
Are you…

An early adopter who would like to be part of a cutting-edge pilot program to influence city and state policy?
Tired of flushing potable water down the toilet and interested in building a legal composting toilet for your home?
Interested in using alternative composting systems to improve your soil and fertilize trees and other plants?
Want to get geeky about soil – how to build healthy soils and conserve water while producing food and lush native landscapes?

Watershed Management Group invites you to attend an informational session: Thursday, February 9, 6-8pm. Register to attend this free informational session on participating in WMG’s Soil Steward Compost Toilet program (attendance required to apply to be a pilot participant). Register here.
This informational session will include:

The activities and information taught in the Soil Steward program
Composting-toilet designs offered through the program (site-built), proper use, permitting, and legal issues
How to apply to receive a subsidy and be an exclusive pilot participant to receive a legal site-built composting toilet

If you’re interested in participating or learning more about our Soil Stewards program, please contact Catlow Shipek at catlow@watershedmg.org.
Click to download the flyer for the event.
The project is possible through grant funding from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 9 for their environmental education projects.

Sonoran Permaculture Guild: 17th Annual Permaculture Design Course, February & March 2012 – Tucson AZ
2012-02-04
Five Weekends in 2012: February 4-5, 11-12, 25-26; March 10-11, 17-18
Cost $695, or $650 for early registration before December 1st. There is also a class book fee of $39 for a copy of Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison. Also highly recommended is Brad Lancaster’s Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond series (Volumes 1 and 2). Partial scholarships are available and registration is open now!
For the last sixteen years this course has been full with a waiting list, so early registration is encouraged. To give a high quality educational experience, we limit the size of the class to eighteen participants. Contact Dan, the course registrar, at dorsey@dakotacom.net or 520-624-8030 to register or receive more information.
This Permaculture certification course covers all aspects of sustainable design with a Southwest dry lands flavor, including a balance of hands on experience, classroom time, and design practicum. Dynamic exercises encourage pattern recognition, noticing the links between plants and animals, climate, and landforms that make up natural ecosystems. Our course closely follows the standard 72 hour format developed by Bill Mollison and others. The course focuses on dry land communities with a strong urban and semi-rural emphasis, addressing individual site and neighborhood “problems”, such as storm water flooding. Students learn to read the landscape, to map and analyze energies flowing through a site, and to develop integrated designs for sustainable systems. The weekend format of the course makes it easier for people who hold a week day job to attend and promotes better integration of the course material into daily life.
Course topics include agroforestry, appropriate technology, building design, design principles and patterning, site analysis, drylands gardening principles, ecosystem restoration, philosophy and ethics of Permaculture, regenerative community economics, soils and erosion control, village and community design, water harvesting, invisible structures, and many other topics. The classroom site is in the Central Tucson area and at other Permaculture sites in the Tucson area. Much of the class is held outdoors. This course is taught and facilitated by Dan Dorsey, Brad Lancaster, and Barbara Rose, each with two decades of Permaculture experience, as well as other SPG associate teachers.
For more information on courses and teacher profiles see the Courses & Workshops and Teaching-Team Members links on the website: www.sonoranpermaculture.org

Dave Siebert, Bill Zeedyk, Steve Carson: Watershed Restoration Workshops, January 14-15 & 21-22, 2012 – Altar Valley AZ
2012-01-14 - 2012-01-15
STEWARDSHIP DAYS ELKHORN / LAS DELICIAS DEMONSTRATION PROJECT
Supported by:
Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold
Pima County Natural Resources, Parks and Recreation Department,
Altar Valley Conservation Alliance and Partners

The entire project will run from January 9-23, 2012. Focused learning opportunities will be the weekends of January 14-15 & 21-22.
Join the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance Restoration Coordinator David Seibert and watershed restoration experts Bill Zeedyk and Steve Carson for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn by doing. We’re seeking people to install rock structures that will harvest upland rainwater flows to reestablish vegetation and arrest erosion. In the process, you’ll learn how the low-tech system of induced meandering stabilizes and restores eroding gully systems. You’ll help implement low-tech techniques that drain road systems and harvest water onto the adjoining land in order to restore watershed surface hydrological function and promote vegetation for wild life and livestock. Construction of the structures involves physical work while moving and placing rocks, but if you’re not sure that’s for you, rest assured that there are still ways you can be involved!
Photography is also welcome.
Please bring: Food, water bottles/canteens, camping supplies (wood fires strongly discouraged), gloves, hat, and sturdy work shoes.
To learn more contact: David Seibert (dseibert@email.arizona.edu) or Mary Miller (mary@elkhornranch.com)
To RSVP: please fill out the form below and return to Sarah King at sehking@gmail.com.
If you’d rather, you can also print it and mail it to:
Altar Valley Conservation Alliance
PO Box 27906
Tucson AZ 85726
Upon receipt of your RSVP, you will receive a confirmation note with your dates, role, map, and a release of liability form that you will need to bring with you on your first day of work.
PLEASE RSVP BY DECEMBER 16, 2011.
Click to download AVCA Elk-LD Volunteer Flyer

Watershed Management Group: Early Registration Deadline for Watershed Technical Training in Expanded Greywater Systems, January 6, 2012
2012-01-06

Watershed Management Group: Early & Regular Registration Deadlines for Spring 2012 Water-Harvesting Certification Courses – Phoenix/Tucson AZ
2011-11-30
*Phoenix: February 24 – March 4, 2012
Apply by November 30 to get an early-registration discount
Apply by January 30 for regular registration

Tucson: May 4 – 13, 2012
Apply by March 12 to get an early-registration discount
Apply by April 9 for regular registration

*Please note that the Phoenix course might be moved to Tucson, depending on the level of interest.
Are you interested in taking your water-harvesting expertise to the next level? WMG’s Water Harvesting Certification offers the highest quality and greatest depth of training in integrative water harvesting in the nation. This 65-hour, 10-day course draws applicants from all over the world and from backgrounds as diverse as architecture, landscaping, planning, business, government, science, education and community development.
The curriculum covers design, implementation, and installation of greywater systems, water-harvesting earthworks, and plastic and steel cisterns; integrated design; and appropriate plant selection for retrofitting urban areas. The course is taught through a mix of hands-on workshops, group design work, and lectures.
Graduates who pass the course become Certified Water-Harvesting Practitioners, a formal acknowledgement of their mastery of the essential core concepts of water harvesting, and a testament to their ability to perform this work in a professional capacity.
Participants who complete the Water-Harvesting Certification will be able to:

Integrate water harvesting systems with other design considerations (energy conservation, aesthetic design, food production, wildlife habitat, etc.)
Calculate rainwater runoff potential of catchment areas and determine soil percolation rate
Create a water budget and use water harvesting systems to match landscaping to available water supply
Choose, size, and build appropriate earthworks features for different applications (basins, berms, swales, French drains)

Design greywater systems from washing machines, bathroom sinks, and bath tub and shower water
Build gravity-fed greywater systems from washing-machine water to irrigate landscape
Size and build steel-culvert cisterns
Size and install plastic cisterns
Design water-harvesting systems to support small-scale food production (including earthworks design, cistern design and application, and soil improvements)
Design all of the above systems while incorporating safety and health considerations

Course Costs
Early registration: $1,050.
Regular registration: $1,200
Some scholarships are available.
For more information visit our trainings web page watershedmg.org/tech-trainings or contact Rhiwena Slack.
Email: rslack@watershedmg.org
Phone: (520) 396-3266

Watershed Management Group: Certificación en la Cosecha del Agua en Español: November 4-13, 2011 – Tucson AZ
2011-11-04 - 2011-11-13
Se Ofrecen Becas Completas para el primer curso de Certificación de la Cosecha del Agua en Español en Tucson!
Watershed Management Group (WMG) se complace en anunciar que en este momento está aceptando aplicaciones para el primer curso de Certificación de la Cosecha del Agua en español. Este curso se dará en Tucson, Arizona, del 4 a 13 de noviembre. Este programa educacional comprensivo instruye a los participantes sobre todo lo se necesita saber para el diseño e implementación de prácticas de cosescha del agua. WMG tiene varias becas disponibles para subsidiar el pago total o parcial de la colegiatura para aquellos residentes de la región fronteriza que viven dentro de 100 km (60 millas) de la frontera Arizona/México. Por favor visite www.watershedmg.org/certification para más detalles o descargue una aplicación.
Full Scholarships Available for WMG’s All-Spanish-Language Water Harvesting Certification course in Tucson!
Watershed Management Group is excited to announce that we’re currently accepting applications to our first Spanish Water Harvesting Certification Course. The course will be held in Tucson, Arizona, from November 4-13. This comprehensive educational program teaches participants everything they need to know about designing and implementing water harvesting systems. We also have several scholarships available to pay partial or full tuition for qualified residents of the Border Region who live within 60 miles of the Arizona/Mexico border. Please see www.watershedmg.org/certification for more details or download an application.
Este curso será dado completamente en español. Por favor sólo aplique si habla español con proficiencia. Hay becas disponsibles para estudiantes que viven dentro de 60 millas (100 kilómetros) de la frontera Sonora/Arizona. Para más detalles o si tiene preguntas, por favor póngase en contacto con Lindsay Ignatowski o llame al 520-396-3266. (Se habla español.)
Please note: This course is taught 100% in Spanish. Only fluent Spanish speakers should apply. Subsidies are available for students living within 60 miles of the Arizona/Sonora, Mexico, border.

Early registration: August 1
Regular registration: September 1

Bill Zeedyk, Van Clothier, and Craig Sponholtz: Induced Meandering/Erosion Control Restoration Assessment and Design Workshop: October 24 - November 2, 2011 – south of Tucson AZ
2011-10-24 - 2011-11-02
Sky Island Alliance is accepting applications for the seven-day Induced Meandering/Erosion Control Restoration Assessment and Design Workshop led by Bill Zeedyk of Zeedyk Ecological Consulting, Albuquerque, NM; Van Clothier of Stream Dynamics, Silver City, NM; and Craig Sponholtz of Dryland Solutions, Santa Fe, NM. The workshop is broken into 2 sessions with a break from October 28-30, and will be held on Las Ciénegas National Conservation Area just south of Tucson.
This workshop is an intensive introduction to natural creek and arroyo function, techniques of field surveys, the analysis of incised channels, reading the landscape, the design of induced meandering and erosion control structures, and project design and layout principles. The curriculum will include some classroom sessions but will focus extensively on field experience.
All participants will be housed on site with a full camp set-up including canvas 4-10 person tents, cots (bring your own bedding), showers and bathrooms, and a mess tent/area where all meals and box lunches for the field will be provided. It is imperative that all participants stay on site for the duration of the workshop as your full attention and participation is required for the duration of all 7 days.
This training is open to professionals and students from a wide variety of backgrounds that possess basic knowledge of natural resource management and related concepts. Preference in the application process will be given to those with ability to implement the training on the ground.
More information on the course content and outline will be sent to interested parties. All materials will be provided including Bill and Van’s new book: Let the Water Do the Work.
Click to download the flyer: Zeedyk Clothier Sponholtz Workshop Flyer

To apply please contact Trevor Hare, Sky Island Alliance Landscape Restoration Program Manager:
trevor@skyislandalliance.org or (520) 624-7080 x14.
Fees (including camp setup and all meals/soft drinks) are $1000 for professionals; and $800 for students. Scholarship availability is very limited, please contact Trevor for details.
Important Dates
August 15: Registration/Fee deadline
August 30: Food and Camping info deadline
15 September 15: Cancellation deadline
October 24, 8am: Meet on site, set up/familiarize with camp
October 27, 6pm: Finish first session
October 31, 8am: Meet on site, set up/familiarize with camp
November 2, 5pm: Finish workshop

Craig Sponholtz: Erosion Control Workshop, October 14-16, 2011 - Clifton AZ
2011-10-14 17:00 - 2011-10-16 17:00
Double Circle Ranch is both a working cattle ranch and a model for conservation and environmental stewardship. Bring your camping gear and join us for this free weekend funded by the Arizona Water Protection Fund Commission. Help us slow soil loss and improve water quality in Eagle Creek while learning skills to benefit your own land.
Dates: October 14-16, 2011
Location: Double Circle Ranch, near Clifton, AZ
Cost: Free
RSVP by September 20, 2011
Instructor: Craig Sponholtz earned an M.A. in Agro-Ecological Restoration from Prescott College and studied Permaculture at Bill Mollison’s Tagari Farm in Australia. He spent a decade with the U.S. Forest Service in New Mexico and Arizona working in Wildland Fire Management and Fire Use. Craig has had extensive training and hands-on experience in passive water harvesting, erosion control and stream restoration that is well complimented by a background in fine art sculpture and ceramics. Craig founded Dryland Solutions in 2003 and continues to design and implement watershed restoration projects throughout the Southwest. He is an expert heavy equipment operator specializing in low impact techniques and artistic in-stream boulder masonry. Craig teaches a wide variety of watershed restoration techniques that foster beneficial relationships between people and the watersheds they live in.
Food and land for camping are provided. Bring your own gear. For more information, including how to register, download the Double Circle Erosion Control Flyer for October 2011.

Brad Lancaster: Water-Harvesting Hands-on Workshop, October 8, 2011 - near Madison WI
2011-10-08 09:00 - 16:30
Come join us as we learn from Brad in a classroom setting, and also on Saturday in both the classroom and in the field.
We will be meeting at the Token Creek Eco-Inn, at 3919 Gray Rd, DeForest/Windsor, off Hwy 51 north of Madison.
The workshop will run from 9 am to 4:30 pm on Saturday, October 8, with a simple lunch included for all.
Two levels of payment for the workshop are available.
This is an honor system based on your income and what you deem you can honestly afford for this opportunity to learn from Brad.
Level 1 Payment: $85
Level 2 Payment: $110
Workshop registrants are invited to attend Brad’s talk the evening before the workshop — for no additional charge.
Although no two hands-on workshops are completely alike, here is a general description of what to expect:
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.
Please contact Kate Heiber-Cobb of Sustainability On Stilts for more details &/or to register: seventhheaven@mailbag.com. Or call Kate at 608-213-2230 with questions.

Brad Lancaster: Water-Harvesting Talk, October 7, 2011 - near Madison WI
2011-10-07 19:00 - 20:30
Date: Friday, October 7, 2011
Time: 7-8:30 pm
Location: Token Creek Eco-Inn
Address: 3919 Gray Rd, DeForest/Windsor WI (off Hwy 51 north of Madison)
Cost: Free for registrants of the next day’s workshop
$20 for all others
Brad will be giving his much-lauded general water-harvesting talk (description below) and his books will be available for sale and signing after the talk.
Turning Drains Into Sponges and Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance
This inspiring power point presentation shares eight universal principles of water harvesting along with simple strategies that turn water scarcity into water abundance. They empower you to create integrated water-sustainable landscape plans at home and throughout your community. Rainwater harvesting is the process of capturing rain and making the most of it as close as possible to where it falls. Greywater harvesting is the process of directing water from household sink, bathtub, shower, and washing-machine drains into the soils of the landscape where the water is naturally filtered and reused to generate more on-site resources. The two work hand in hand, and can reduce our water consumption by 30 to 50%! You’ll see examples enhancing local food security, passively cooling cities in summer, reducing costs of living and energy consumption, controlling erosion, averting flooding, reviving dead waterways, minimizing water pollution, building community, creating celebration, and more.
Please contact Kate Heiber-Cobb of Sustainability On Stilts for more details &/or to register for the October 8 workshop: seventhheaven@mailbag.com or call Kate at (608) 213-2230 with questions.

Watershed Management Group: Technical Training in Stream Restoration, October 6-8, 2011 - Tucson AZ
2011-10-06 - 2011-10-08
Join Watershed Management Group (WMG) for a 3-day, hands-on course in Stream Restoration through the Watershed Technical Training program. This course will provide participants with a basic understanding of how desert streams and arroyos function, how they change over time, and the human influence on them, both positive and negative. Based on this foundation, students will then participate in hands-on sessions in site assessment, design, and implementation of small-scale restoration features. Emphasis will be placed on urban wash restoration approaches and practices from backyard to larger drainage scales.
The course curriculum includes:

Classroom lectures
Site assessment, surveying, design, and planning sessions
Hands-on restoration workshops
Tour of local restoration sites

Apply early for the reduced registration fee by August 1, 2011 — application deadline for the regular registration fee is September 1, 2011. To view the full course announcement and download an application, visit WMG Watershed Technical Training webpage. For more information, please contact Tory Syracuse at tsyracuse@watershedmg.org or 520-396-3266.

IPC10: International Permaculture Conference and Convergence, September 17-22, 2011 - Amman & Wadi Rum, Jordan
2011-09-17 - 2011-09-22
The next International Permaculture Conference and Convergence, IPC10, will be held in Jordan across September 2011. The theme is “Plan Jordan ~ Water.”
The 1-day IPC10 Conference (open to all) and 4-day IPC10 Convergence (open to Permaculture Design Certificate graduates only) will be held in Jordan (Amman and Wadi Rum, respectively) and will be coordinated by Nadia ‘Abu Yahia’ Lawton & Charles Hamilton. Prior to the start of the Conference and subsequent Convergence, a two-week International Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course will be taught by a team of respected permaculture educators and practitioners, and all three events will be followed by tours and permaculture site visits.
For more information, visit: www.ipcon.org/

Warren Brush, Brad Lancaster, Geoff Lawton, Nadia Lawton, Bill Mollison, Rosemary Morrow: International Permaculture Conference PDC, September 3-15, 2011 - Amman, Jordan
2011-09-03 - 2011-09-15
The Permaculture Design Certificate course is an internationally-recognized, seventy-two hour course resulting in a Permaculture Design Certificate. It provides an introduction to permaculture design as set forth by movement founder Bill Mollison.
The PDC serves as foundation for further permaculture work and study and is a prerequisite for the Diploma in Permaculture Design, offered through The Permaculture Institute. Credit for this course is now accepted by a growing number of universities around the world.
To date, thousands of permaculture designers worldwide have been certified through this course, and now comprise a global network of educators, ecological activists who influence major corporations, individuals creating new business alternatives and groups of committed people working together to change the way we view and design into our landscapes.
The course covers sustainable living systems for a wide variety of landscapes and climates. It includes the application of permaculture principles to food production, home design, construction, energy conservation and generation, and explores alternative economic structures and legal strategies supporting permaculture solutions.
Dates: September 3-15, 2011
Location: Amman, Jordan
Teachers (see bios at bottom):

Rosemary Morrow
Brad Lancaster
Warren Brush
Geoff Lawton
Nadia Lawton
with special guest talks by Bill Mollison

Costs:

International Students: US$2,000
Jordanian residents: US$1,000

Accommodation/Meal Information: TBA soon! (check this website for updates)

Booking Info: TBA soon! (check this website for updates)
Teacher Bios
Rosemary Morrow (Rowe) trained in development work in France where she also lived in Trosly-Breuil l’Arche community, and in England at Jordans. Most of the 1970s were spent in Lesotho. Back in Australia in the 1980s permaculture provided the powerful basis for her concern for Earth restoration. She considers permaculture ‘sacred’ knowledge to be carried and shared with others. Since then she has travelled to teach people anxious and concerned to restore their environments. As a teacher of permaculture Rowe has been inspired for many years by Parker Palmer, the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) and non-violent resistance. She works in di?cult places responding to people who have been disempowered and who would not otherwise have access to permaculture.
Brad Lancaster is the author of the best-selling, and award-winning books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volumes 1 and 2. Living on an eighth of an acre (0.05 ha) in downtown Tucson, Arizona, where rainfall is less than 12 inches (305 mm) annually, Brad practices what he preaches by harvesting over 100,000 gallons (379,000 liters) of rainwater a year., creating an oasis in the desert by directing this harvested rainwater not off their property and into storm drains, but instead incorporating it into living air conditioners of food-bearing shade trees, abundant gardens, and a thriving landscape that includes habitat for wildlife. This living example, dynamic public talks, and countless hands-on workshops have inspired thousands of citizens and numerous businesses in Tucson and around the country to harvest water and sustainably grow their local resources.

Warren Brush is a certified Permaculture designer and teacher as well as a mentor and storyteller. He has worked for over 25 years in inspiring people of all ages to discover, nurture and express their inherent gifts while living in a sustainable manner. He is co-founder of Quail Springs Learning Oasis & Permaculture Farm, Sustainable Vocations, Wilderness Youth Project, Trees for Children and his Permaculture design company, True Nature Design. He works extensively in Permaculture education and sustainable systems design in North America and in Africa as well as in other countries worldwide. He has devoted many years to mentoring youth to inspire and equip them to live in a sustainable manner with integrity and a hopeful outlook. His mentoring includes working with those who are former child soldiers, orphans, from troubled families and situations as well as those youth from other varied and privileged backgrounds.
Geoff Lawton is an internationally-renowned permaculture educator, consultant and practitioner. He emigrated from England to Australia and later studied permaculture with Bill Mollison in Tasmania. He established the Permaculture Research Institute at Tagari Farm in New South Wales, Australia, a 147-acre farmstead previously developed by Mollison. PRI was eventually moved to Zaytuna Farm, in The Channon, where it continues today. Since 1985, Geoff has designed and implemented permaculture projects in 30 countries for private individuals and groups, communities, governments, aid organizations, and multinational corporations. He has taught the Permaculture Design Certificate course in 30 countries.

Nadia Lawton, co-teacher and translator on this course, was born and raised in the Jordan (Dead Sea) Valley, in the lowest and one of the driest places on earth. She completed her PDC with Sindhu Webber in Jordan and went on to complete a Permaculture Diploma in Education and Site Design. She regularly travels with her husband for aid project and permaculture consulting work, and assists in teaching permaculture design courses. Nadia established PRI Jordan and the Jawasari Permaculture Society.

Bill Mollison is a researcher, author, scientist, teacher and naturalist. He is the developer of the curriculum for the world class Permaculture Design Course, and authors many other books dealing with Permaculture. He established and continues to direct the first and longest running Permaculture Institute in existence. He is the first teacher of anything Permaculture both domestically and on a global scale and continues teaching Permaculture Design Courses today, most recently in Istanbul in Nov 2010. Students will be privileged to hear Bill speak at the PDC!

Watershed Management Group: Water Harvesting Lecture Series in Santa Barbara, August 19-24, 2011 - Santa Barbara CA
2011-08-19 15:00 - 17:00
WMG is opening four of its in-depth lectures from its Santa Barbara Water Harvesting Certification course to the public!
Would you like to learn how to design high-quality, functional water-harvesting systems for a variety of applications? Have you done a few water-harvesting projects, but would like to learn more? Would you like to learn about cutting-edge green practices that incorporate integrated design and are also simple and affordable? If you answered yes to any of these questions, these lectures are for you.

Friday 8/19: Water Harvesting Earthworks, 3-5 pm, with Catlow Shipek: Santa Barbara City College, 721 Cliff Drive

Learn design and application of basins, berms, swales, terraces, and french drains. This lecture covers lot-scale to watershed scale practices with information on soils, landscape materials, and integration with plants.

Monday 8/22: Cisterns, 8-10 am, with Catlow Shipek: Holy Cross Church, 1740 Cliff Drive

Comprehensive overview of cistern systems from guttering, filtration, storage, and distribution, including best management practices and cistern types for different applications.

Tuesday 8/23: Greywater Systems, 8-10 am, with Art Ludwig and Brad Lancaster: Holy Cross Church, 1740 Cliff Drive

Greywater systems harvest water from laundry machines, bathroom sink and showers, and air conditioning condensate. Learn how to reuse greywater in your yard, with a focus on laundry-to-landscape systems, plumbing considerations, and appropriate uses.

Wednesday 8/24: Water Harvesting for Food Production, 2-4 pm, with Brad Lancaster: Holy Cross Church, 1740 Cliff Drive

Brad’s lecture covers a diverse range of agricultural applications from backyard to large-scale systems, showing how rain and greywater can enhance food production while conserving water.

Pre-registration and pre-payment is required for each session. Each lecture costs $25. In order to pre-register, please make your online payment at www.watershedmg.org/contribute and include the name of the lecture(s) for which you are registering and the number of people attending. Payments for lectures must be made at least one day prior to the lecture date.
Please contact Barbara Wishingrad at bwishingrad@watershedmg.org or at 805-403-4566 if you have questions.

Watershed Management Group: Water Harvesting Certification Course, August 19 – 28, 2011 – Santa Barbara CA
2011-08-19 - 2011-08-28
Watershed Management Group (WMG) is accepting applications for its Water Harvesting Certification course to be held August 19 – 28, 2011, in Santa Barbara, California. Priority registration ends June 13, while regular registration continues through July 15. Preference will be given to residents of Santa Barbara and southern California.
The WMG Water Harvesting Certification program provides the highest quality and greatest depth of training in integrative water harvesting offered in the nation. The Santa Barbara course is taught by a variety of experts including Santa Barbara’s Art Ludwig and Tucson’s Brad Lancaster.
In the last two years, WMG has trained over 80 people through our Water Harvesting Certification from throughout the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.
Program Description:
The WMG Water Harvesting Certification provides a unique, hands-on 65-hour curriculum in water harvesting systems design and construction, with an emphasis on retrofitting urban areas while working in concert with the local environment. The course teaches design, implementation, and installation of greywater systems, water harvesting earthworks, and plastic and steel cisterns.
This rigorous course includes readings, written homework assignments, site assessments, outdoor workshops, and lectures. A typical day includes a 4-5 hour hands-on outdoor workshop and 2-4 hours of lectures or site assessments. To ensure a quality educational experience, we limit the number of students in the course to 12 to 16 students.
Registration Deadlines:
To be considered for the Santa Barbara course, applicants must submit a one-page resume and application form by the following dates:
Priority Registration: $1,050 course fee
Applications must be postmarked by June 13, 2011. Once accepted for the course, applicants must pay the full course fee 2 weeks after their acceptance. Three monthly installments may be negotiated if necessary.
Regular Registration: $1,200 course fee
Applications must be postmarked by July 15, 2011. Once accepted for the course, applicants must pay the full course fee within two weeks after their acceptance. Three monthly installments may be negotiated if necessary.
Applicants will be notified of the status of their application on a rolling basis. The program fee is non-refundable after August 1st.
Scholarships:
WMG offers subsidies of $100 to $300 to help defray the cost of the course. To be considered for a subsidy, please include an explanation of your financial need in your application.
For more information on Course Requirements and Qualifications, Meaning of Certification, Curriculum Details, and more, download the Santa Barbara 2011 Water Harvesting Certification Course Announcement.
If you have any questions about the training program or application process, please contact Lindsay Ignatowski by email at lindsay@watershedmg.org or by phone at 520-396-3266. You may learn more about Watershed Management Group by visiting their website at www.watershedmg.org or about the Certification program at www.watershedmg.org/certification. For more information on WMG’s work in Santa Barbara, contact Barbara Wishingrad by email at bwishingrad@watershedmg.org or by phone at 805-403- 4566.

John Stokes & Joel Glanzberg: The Art of Seeing, The Way of the Tracker, August 5-7, 2011 - Cuba NM
2011-08-05 - 2011-08-07
The Art of Seeing, The Way of the Tracker
John Stokes & Joel Glanzberg
August 5 – 7, 2011
Circle A Ranch in Cuba, New Mexico

For the sixth year, permaculture designer Joel Glanzberg and tracker John Stokes will guide this immersion experience in the art of seeing, a deep exploration of Nature, its patterns and expressions. Blending the art of tracking and the art of permaculture, participants learn to develop the pattern recognition of the tracker and the integrated pattern understanding of a permaculture designer. Through exercises which enhance visual and sensory awareness, natural movement and lots of “bush time,” Joel and John will share diverse ways of “seeing” the forest and natural patterns in the landscape. Recognizing the animals as elders and teachers, students expand their awareness of themselves as creatures of the earth, involved in an act of continual co-creation with the world around them. Learning to read the patterns of tracks and succession in Nature, we then turn the gaze inward to look at patterns of breathing, patterns of thought, patterns of movement… Ultimately, we look at how we as human beings can position ourselves to truly observe the natural world in order to establish healing patterns for the future.
“Our highest calling as human beings on this Earth is to harmonize our energies with the energies of Nature.”
~ John Stokes
“Pattern literacy and generation are the keys to understanding whole systems and to generating whole systems, lives, and communities.”
~ Joel Glanzberg
To register for this course contact:
The Tracking Project
thetrackingproject@earthlink.net
(505) 898-6967
Tuition $250
Biographies
John Stokes is a writer, musician and well-known teacher of tracking and observation skills who has traveled extensively for the last 30 years bringing awareness of the natural world and the integrity of indigenous cultures to people all over the world. He is Director of The Tracking Project, a non-profit organization in New Mexico he
founded in 1986 at the request of traditional Native Elders and community educators for the purpose of re-connecting young people to the land while practicing traditional skills and preserving tribal knowledge. For more information on The Tracking Project, visit www.thetrackingproject.org.

Joel Glanzberg, long-time teacher, designer, doer. Joel has focused on the integration of humans in their place in the landscape. He works to help people learn to understand their places and how to live in them as inhabitants and co-creators. He has studied Permaculture with Bill Mollison. He co-founded Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute
and created an integrated homestead at Santa Clara Pueblo with Roxanne Swentzell. Joel has taught at the University of New Mexico, Prescott College, the Desert Botanical Garden and many other places. His many talents include traditional farming, carpentry, blacksmithing and work as an adobero.

WMG: Early and Regular Application Deadlines for Technical Training in Stream Restoration, August and September 1, 2011
2011-08-01
Join Watershed Management Group (WMG) for a 3-day, hands-on course in Stream Restoration through the Watershed Technical Training program. This course runs from October 6-8, 2011, and will provide participants with a basic understanding of how desert streams and arroyos function, how they change over time, and the human influence on them, both positive and negative. Based on this foundation, students will then participate in hands-on sessions in site assessment, design, and implementation of small-scale restoration features. Emphasis will be placed on urban wash restoration approaches and practices from backyard to larger drainage scales.
The course curriculum includes:

Classroom lectures
Site assessment, surveying, design, and planning sessions
Hands-on restoration workshops
Tour of local restoration sites

Apply early for the reduced registration fee by August 1, 2011; application deadline for the regular registration fee is September 1, 2011. To view the full course announcement and download an application, visit WMG Watershed Technical Training webpage. For more information, please contact Tory Syracuse at tsyracuse@watershedmg.org or 520-396-3266.

Watershed Management Group: Fecha Tope para Certificación en la Cosecha del Agua en Español: November 4-13, 2011 – Tucson AZ
2011-08-01
Inscripción temprana/early registration: augusto 1
Inscripcíon regular/regular registration: septiembre 1
Se Ofrecen Becas Completas para el primer curso de Certificación de la Cosecha del Agua en Español en Tucson!
Watershed Management Group (WMG) se complace en anunciar que en este momento está aceptando aplicaciones para el primer curso de Certificación de la Cosecha del Agua en español. Este curso se dará en Tucson, Arizona, del 4 a 13 de noviembre. Este programa educacional comprensivo instruye a los participantes sobre todo lo se necesita saber para el diseño e implementación de prácticas de cosescha del agua. WMG tiene varias becas disponibles para subsidiar el pago total o parcial de la colegiatura para aquellos residentes de la región fronteriza que viven dentro de 100 km (60 millas) de la frontera Arizona/México. Por favor visite www.watershedmg.org/certification para más detalles o descargue una aplicación.

Full Scholarships Available for WMG’s All-Spanish-Language Water Harvesting Certification course in Tucson!
Watershed Management Group is excited to announce that we’re currently accepting applications to our first Spanish Water Harvesting Certification Course. The course will be held in Tucson, Arizona, from November 4-13. This comprehensive educational program teaches participants everything they need to know about designing and implementing water harvesting systems. We also have several scholarships available to pay partial or full tuition for qualified residents of the Border Region who live within 60 miles of the Arizona/Mexico border. Please see www.watershedmg.org/certification for more details or download an application.
Este curso será dado completamente en español. Por favor sólo aplique si habla español con proficiencia. Hay becas disponsibles para estudiantes que viven dentro de 60 millas (100 kilómetros) de la frontera Sonora/Arizona. Para más detalles o si tiene preguntas, por favor póngase en contacto con Lindsay Ignatowski o llame al 520-396-3266. (Se habla español.)

Please note: This course is taught 100% in Spanish. Only fluent Spanish speakers should apply. Subsidies are available for students living within 60 miles of the Arizona/Sonora, Mexico, border.

Brad Lancaster: Free Public Talk "Turning Drains into Sponges and Water Scarcity into Water Abundance," July 29, 2011 - Point Reyes Station CA
2011-07-29 19:30 - 21:00
This event is hosted by Point Reyes Books in conjunction with the Regenerative Design Institute.
Brad’s books will be available for sale and signing at the talk.
Date: Friday, July 29, 2011
Time: 7:30 – 9 pm
Cost: Free
Location: Point Reyes Community Presbyterian Church
Address: 11445 Shoreline Highway, Point Reyes Station CA 94956
For directions: Visit the Church’s website
Talk Topic & Description:
Turning Drains Into Sponges and Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance
This inspiring power point presentation shares eight universal principles of water harvesting along with simple strategies that turn water scarcity into water abundance. They empower you to create integrated water-sustainable landscape plans at home and throughout your community. Rainwater harvesting is the process of capturing rain and making the most of it as close as possible to where it falls. Greywater harvesting is the process of directing water from household sink, bathtub, shower, and washing-machine drains into the soils of the landscape where the water is naturally filtered and reused to generate more on-site resources. The two work hand in hand, and can reduce our water consumption by 30 to 50%! You’ll see examples enhancing local food security, passively cooling cities in summer, reducing costs of living and energy consumption, controlling erosion, averting flooding, reviving dead waterways, minimizing water pollution, building community, creating celebration, and more.
Follow this link for more information about this or other Point Reyes Books events, or call the bookstore at (415) 663-1542.

Brad Lancaster, Penny Livingston-Stark, Brock Dolman, and David Ortiz: Planting Water Advanced Permaculture Workshop, July 29-31, 2011 - Bolinas CA
2011-07-29 09:00 - 2011-07-31 17:00
Planting Water Workshop

Planting Water: Hydrological literacy for rainwater harvesting, water reuse, conservation, filtration and purification.
Offered: July 29-30-31, 2011
Location: Commonweal Garden, Bolinas CA

This is a unique opportunity to dive deeply into the skills, theory and hands-on practicum of rainwater harvesting, water reuse, public policy and cutting edge information as it pertains to clean water access for wildlife, community, domestic and landscape use.

Instructors: Brad Lancaster • Brock Dolman • Penny Livingston-Stark • David Ortiz
The instructor team offers a diverse set of skills, vision and experience designed to round out a full curriculum of hydro-logical literacy. This 3-day training will include a combination of presentations, panels, slide shows, tours and hands-on activities.
Topics will include:
• A panel discussion on the big picture–community and global water policies, codes, watershed funding, coalitions and more…
• Rainwater harvesting from roof water, as well as, keyline patterning and broad acre rainwater harvesting and filtration.
• Earthworks: Pond building catch basins and rain gardens. We will build a rain water run-off catch basin and plant with a host of multi-functional plants for this climate.
• Integrating multi-functional planting systems for dryland climates.
• Water conservation techniques.
• Grey water and onsite water purification and re-use in the landscape.
• Fog harvesting: We will set up a fog harvesting system for watering a cliff side landscape.
Commonweal Garden offers many innovative and cutting edge water harvesting and conservation examples employed on the farm.
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Course Fees

$475 Course fee
Includes campsite and delicious organic meals
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Registration
Please click here to register!
Refund Policy
Cancellations up to 2 weeks before the course begins will be refunded, excluding a $150 processing fee. No refunds are given after that date.

For questions or additional information, contact:
415·868 9681 or send an email to RDI
Regenerative Design Institute
P.O. Box 923
Bolinas, CA 94924
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Course Schedule
The course will take place from 10am, Friday, July 29 through 5pm on Sunday, July 31, 2011.
Registration: 9–9:45am, Friday, July 29
Arrival: Please arrive by 9am, Friday, July 29, to allow time for registration and to get settled. The course will begin promptly at 10am.
Departure: The course ends at 5pm on Sunday, July 31. Please book your flights and rides out appropriately.
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What to Know
Our What To Know page has information on things you will need to know for your stay at Commonweal Garden, including directions, transportation options, site accommodations and what to bring. Please read through this information, which will answer many of your questions.

Brad Lancaster: Water-Harvesting Talk | Hands-on Workshop | Workshop Overview at Sierra Earthfest, June 17-18, 2011 - Groveland CA
2011-06-17 19:30 - 21:30
Sierra Earthfest is an annual free festival that focuses on topics such as natural history, watershed management, local networking, holistic health, permaculture, and mountain living.
Friday, June 17, 7:30 pm: Brad’s water-harvesting presentation
Saturday, June 18, 9 am – dark: An array of live music, seminars & workshops, kids’ activities, local artisan market, educational booths, storytelling, a hands-on water-harvesting workshop with Brad from 10 am – 3 pm, with a workshop overview session explaining what was done and why from 3-4 pm.
Location:
Mountain Sage
18653 Main St
Groveland CA 95321
For more information about Sierra Earthfest and/or Brad’s workshop on Saturday, please visit sierraearthfest.org, or contact Regina at Mountain Sage Nursery at mountainsagenursery@gmail.com or (209) 732-6044.

Watershed Management Group: Registration & Instructor-Scholarship Deadlines for Water Harvesting Certification Course, August 19 - 28, 2011 - Santa Barbara CA
2011-06-13
Watershed Management Group (WMG) is accepting applications for its Water Harvesting Certification course to be held August 19 – 28, 2011, in Santa Barbara, California. Priority registration ends June 13, while regular registration continues through July 15. Preference will be given to residents of Santa Barbara and southern California.
Note: WMG is seeking to train new workshop instructors to help us launch our Green Living Co-op in Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara residents who would like to use their skills to work as a workshop instructor for WMG following the completion of the Water Harvesting Certification course may be eligible for a special $250 Instructor-in-training scholarship to help defray the cost of the course. Apply by July 15 at www.watershedmg.org/certification.
The WMG Water Harvesting Certification program provides the highest quality and greatest depth of training in integrative water harvesting offered in the nation. The Santa Barbara course is taught by a variety of experts including Santa Barbara’s Art Ludwig and Tucson’s Brad Lancaster.
In the last two years, WMG has trained over 80 people through our Water Harvesting Certification from throughout the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.
Program Description:
The WMG Water Harvesting Certification provides a unique, hands-on 65-hour curriculum in water harvesting systems design and construction, with an emphasis on retrofitting urban areas while working in concert with the local environment. The course teaches design, implementation, and installation of greywater systems, water harvesting earthworks, and plastic and steel cisterns.
This rigorous course includes readings, written homework assignments, site assessments, outdoor workshops, and lectures. A typical day includes a 4-5 hour hands-on outdoor workshop and 2-4 hours of lectures or site assessments. To ensure a quality educational experience, we limit the number of students in the course to 12 to 16 students.
Registration Deadlines:
To be considered for the Santa Barbara course, applicants must submit a one-page resume and application form by the following dates:
Priority Registration: $1,050 course fee
Applications must be postmarked by June 13, 2011. Once accepted for the course, applicants must pay the full course fee 2 weeks after their acceptance. Three monthly installments may be negotiated if necessary.
Regular Registration: $1,200 course fee
Applications must be postmarked by July 15, 2011. Once accepted for the course, applicants must pay the full course fee within two weeks after their acceptance. Three monthly installments may be negotiated if necessary.
Applicants will be notified of the status of their application on a rolling basis. The program fee is non-refundable after August 1st.
Scholarships:
WMG offers subsidies of $100 to $300 to help defray the cost of the course. To be considered for a subsidy, please include an explanation of your financial need in your application.
For more information on Course Requirements and Qualifications, Meaning of Certification, Curriculum Details, and more, download the Santa Barbara 2011 Water Harvesting Certification Course Announcement.
If you have any questions about the training program or application process, please contact Lindsay Ignatowski by email at lindsay@watershedmg.org or by phone at 520-396-3266. You may learn more about Watershed Management Group by visiting their website at www.watershedmg.org or about the Certification program at www.watershedmg.org/certification. For more information on WMG’s work in Santa Barbara, contact Barbara Wishingrad by email at bwishingrad@watershedmg.org or by phone at 805-403- 4566.

Brad Lancaster, Dr José Rivera, Lois Ellen Frank & others: Celebrando las Acequias: Designing Resilience for a Built Environment, June 10-12, 2011 - Dixon NM
2011-06-10 18:00 - 2011-06-12 18:00
Water + Resilience
June 10th – 12th, 2011
Embudo Mission Building
Dixon, New Mexico
Events are free and open to the public.
Evento es libro y abierto al público.
This event recognizes the role the acequias play in the growing of food in the community and honors those who take care of the water – the mayordomo – and those that grow the food.
El evento reconoce la importancia de las acequias en la cosecha de comida en la comunidad y honra a esos que cuidan del agua – el mayordomo – y los granjeros
que la cosechan.
There will be an acequia photography exhibit, live music, and a variety of speakers, to include chef/writer Lois Ellen Frank on Seeds of Health: Using traditional heirloom foods of the past for health and wellness in the future, Dr José Rivera of the University of New Mexico on The Culture of Ayuda Mutua in the Río Arriba, author/integrated regenerative systems consultant Brad Lancaster on water harvesting, Dr. Enrique Lamadrid on Roots of Acequia Culture in Northern Mexico, Catherine Harris on Nomadic Infrastructural Art: Foodshed, Watershed, and Field Explorations in the American Southwest, and several others. The weekend will wrap up with a hands-on water-harvesting workshop led by Brad Lancaster.
Brad’s talk, Beneficial Ruins and Water Webs: A Vernacular Design Challenge to Increase the Resilience of Dryland Ecologies and Human Communities, is scheduled for 11 am on Sunday, June 12, to be followed by a hands-on workshop.
Click on the image to the left to download the Celebrando las Acequias Flyer, or click this link to download the Celebrando Poster and Schedule of Events.
Information:
Estevan Arellano 505.579 4027
or
Arid Lands Institute at
aridlands@woodbury.edu
aridlands.woodbury.edu/public_programs/events.html
Sponsored by:
Arid Lands Institute @ Woodbury University
Design Innovation at the Nexus of Water,
Energy, and Climate Change.

Leona Davis of Community Food Bank: Intro to Rainwater Harvesting, May 25, 2011 - Tucson AZ
2011-05-25 17:30 - 19:00
Please note: there are two separate sessions, but the content for both will be the same!

May Date: May 25, 2011
Time: 5:30 – 7 pm
May Location: Martha Cooper Library
Address: 1377 N Catalina Ave, Tucson AZ 85712
Library phone number: (520) 594-5315
June Date: June 11, 2011
Time: 10 – 11:30 am
June Location: Mission Library
Address: 3770 South Mission Road, Tucson AZ 85713
Library phone number: (520) 594-5325

Topic for both sessions: Intro to Rainwater Harvesting
Speaker: Leona Davis, Community Food Bank
Description: Explore the core principles of rainwater harvesting and a variety of strategies, from cisterns to earthworks, with Leona Davis of the Community Food Bank. We will calculate how much rainfall you will receive off your home roof and on your landscape, and discuss how you can best use this water on your site. Participants are encouraged to bring a base drawing with measurements of their yard and roof of their house and any other outbuildings.
Cost: Free!

Brad Lancaster: Hands-on Water-Harvesting Workshop, May 21, 2011 - Laguna Beach CA
2011-05-21 13:00 - 17:00
Date: May 21, 2011
Time: 1-5 pm
Location:
Anneliese School – Willowbrook Campus
20062 Laguna Canyon Rd
Laguna Beach CA 92651

Cost: $35 if you register in advance, $45 if you register the day of the workshop
Description of the workshop:

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.

For more information or to register for the workshop, contact Elise at (949) 285-1473 or yarrow68@gmail.com.
This workshop and the preceding free public talk are sponsored by:

SEEDS Art and Education, a non-profit that supports arts and education programs to promote stewardship of the land, such as organic gardening, environmental awareness, and conservation, and
Transition Laguna Beach, whose mission is to offer a positive approach in supporting the community toward sustainability and resilience.

Brad Lancaster: Free Public Talk - Turning Drains Into Sponges and Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance, May 21, 2011 - Laguna Beach CA
2011-05-21 10:00 - 12:00
Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011
Time: 10 am – noon
Location: Laguna Beach City Hall
Address: 505 Forest Avenue, Laguna Beach CA 92651
Cost: Free
Brad will give his presentation Water Harvesting to Turn Drains Into Sponges and Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance:
This inspiring power point presentation shares eight universal principles of water harvesting along with simple strategies that turn water scarcity into water abundance. They empower you to create integrated water-sustainable landscape plans at home and throughout your community. Rainwater harvesting is the process of capturing rain and making the most of it as close as possible to where it falls. Greywater harvesting is the process of directing water from household sink, bathtub, shower, and washing-machine drains into the soils of the landscape where the water is naturally filtered and reused to generate more on-site resources. The two work hand in hand, and can reduce our water consumption by 30 to 50%! You’ll see examples enhancing local food security, passively cooling cities in summer, reducing costs of living and energy consumption, controlling erosion, averting flooding, reviving dead waterways, minimizing water pollution, building community, creating celebration, and more.
Afterward Brad will answer questions and sell and sign copies of his award-winning books from the Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond series.
For more information on either event or to register for the workshop later in the afternoon, contact Elise at (949) 285-1473 or yarrow68@gmail.com.
This talk and the workshop to follow are sponsored by:
SEEDS Art and Education, a non-profit that supports arts and education programs to promote stewardship of the land, such as organic gardening, environmental awareness, and conservation, and
Transition Laguna Beach, whose mission is to offer a positive approach in supporting the community toward sustainability and resilience.

Watershed Management Group: Training in Advanced Cisterns, May 12 - 15, 2011 - Tucson AZ
2011-05-12 - 2011-05-15
WMG’s Technical Training in Advanced Cisterns is a hands-on training in site assessment, design, implementation, and maintenance of a variety of cistern types and systems, including ferrocement and underground tanks, cistern pump and irrigation systems, systems for use with indoor plumping, and designs for potable use. The course curriculum builds upon concepts introduced in WMG’s Water Harvesting Certification Course, and includes:

Classroom lectures
Site assessment, design, and planning sessions
Hands-on implementation workshops, including:

1) Ferrocement cistern for potable use
2) Pump-and-tank irrigation system
3) Cistern linked to internal plumping system

Tour of local cistern systems

Full course announcement and application are available here. Apply by March 21 to qualify for the reduced registration fee; regular applications are due by April 18. Contact Tory Syracuse at tsyracuse@watershedmg.org or 520-396-3266 for further information.

Watershed Management Group: Water-Harvesting Certification Course (10-Day Intensive), April 29 - May 8, 2011 - Tucson AZ
2011-04-29 - 2011-05-08
Water Harvesting Certification Program
The 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 them in their professions and teach these practices to others. Our program provides the highest quality and greatest depth of training in integrative water harvesting offered in the nation.
The course teaches design, implementation, and installation of:

Greywater systems
Water harvesting earthworks
Steel cisterns
Plastic cisterns

Upcoming Course Schedule
WMG is pleased to offer courses in both Tucson and Phoenix. Courses will be held three times a year in Tucson, and once each year in Phoenix. Applications for each session are accepted on a rolling basis. Priority is given to the earliest applicants.
Spring 2011, Phoenix, AZ: 10-day intensive course – March 18-27

Early registration: Applications due by January 10.
Regular registration: Applications due by February 14.

Spring 2011, Tucson, AZ: 10-day intensive course – April 29 – May 8

Early registration: Applications due by February 28.
Regular registration: Applications due by March 28.

To apply, download the application below.
WMG Course Application
For more information about Watershed Management Group and their various programs, visit watershedmg.org.
