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TALK: Integrated Solutions for Drought with Brad Lancaster

Integrated Solutions for Drought: Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Natural Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World

Featuring Brad Lancaster with Special Guests Brock Dolman & Trathen Heckman

Thursday, April 17 6:30-8:30. $10 (No one tunred away for lack of funds)

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Petaluma Communtiy Center, 320 N. McDowell Blvd, Petaluma

Learn more and get tickets:  https://events.nonprofiteasy.net/dailyacts/eventdetails?EventId=19834

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This dynamic presentation shares patterns and strategies to harvest, integrate, and enliven free local resources—such as rainwater, greywater, and stormwater; sun, wind, and shade; along with soil fertility, wild foods, and community fun—in a way that generates far more potential than the sum of their parts. Scarcity is re-visioned into abundance simply through creative cycling and utilization of what is already at hand. Costly and consuming habits and infrastructure, disconnected from their surroundings, are reoriented and reconnected to maximize enriching opportunities.

You’ll see many examples of such transformation, including how once-dying wetlands and creek flows are being regenerated with simple hand-built structures made of on-site materials; how ancient sun- and shade-harvesting sites are informing passively heated, cooled, and powered modern homes and retrofits; and how once-blighted, overheated neighborhood streets are being rejuvenated into thriving greenbelts of water, people, wildlife, art, food, and celebration by planting once-drained stormwater, seed, and yard prunings.

 This talk is both an invitation for you to engage and partner with your natural surroundings and community, and a treasure map showing you the way—by planting the rain, dancing with the sun, growing fertile shade, and more to live as one of your community’s inspirational sparks!

Brad Lancaster is a dynamic teacher, consultant, and designer of regenerative systems that sustainably enhance local resources and our global potential. He is the author of the award-winning, best-selling book series Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond; the website www.HarvestingRainwater.com; and its ‘Drops in a Bucket’ Blog.

Learn more and get tickets: https://events.nonprofiteasy.net/dailyacts/eventdetails?EventId=19834

Please contact Ryan Johnston with questions: ryan@dailyacts.org

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