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Time: February 24, 2009 from 7pm to 9pm Location: James A Little Theatre at the NM School for the Deaf Street: 1060 Cerrillos Rd. City/Town: Santa Fe Event Type: benefit, for, the, santa, fe, watershed, association Organized By: BigTexHat Latest Activity: Feb. 20, 2009 Export to Outlook or iCal (.ics) Share Twitter Facebook

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Brad Lancaster to Speak on:

Turning Scarcity into Abundance: The Integrated Harvest of Rain, Sun and Community

Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 7pm James A Little Theatre NM School for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Rd.

$5 suggested donation; free to Watershed Association members (You can sign up at the door)

Background on Brad Lancaster

Brad Lancaster has run a successful permaculture consulting, design, and education business since 1993. His focus is on integrated and sustainable approaches to landscape design, planning, and living. Lancaster states: Because I live in the dryland environment, rainwater harvesting has long been one my specialties and a passion. Through my business I've been able to share this passion and many of the fun innovations and daily adventures that come about from striving to live more sustainably and comfortably in the Sonoran Desert .

Lancaster and his brother estimate they have harvested over 100,000 gallons of rainwater a year on a 1/8th acre urban lot and adjoining right-of-way. This harvested water is then turned into living air conditioners of food-bearing shade trees, abundant gardens, and a thriving landscape incorporating wildlife habitat, beauty, edible and medicinal plants, and more. Such sheltering landscapes can reduce water and energy bills, and require little more than rainwater to thrive.

Lancaster's lecture will suggest how individuals and communities can make similar positive change in their own lives and back yards by harvesting rainwater. By explaining what water harvesting is, how to do it appropriately, and how to modify it to the unique conditions of everyone's own site, Lancaster will show how we can all begin to transform our households from consumers of resources to producers of resources.

This event is jointly sponsored by the Watershed Association, the New Mexico Environment Department (Surface Water Quality Bureau) and the City of Santa Fe Storm Water Division. For additional information contact Pamela Dupzyk with the Santa Fe Watershed Association.

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