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What's New
Check out the plan and conservation strategies just released by the Salmon Creek Water Conservation Program
Check out this informative new booklet The WATER Institute has put together.
Brock featured in this Press Democrat article printed in October 2009.
Read this blog on Brock's plenary speech.
Sonoma State University Six Elements of Sustainability Lecture - Basins of Relations: Thinking Like a Watershed - Rohnert Park
09/10/2008 6:30 pm
09/10/2008 8:30 pm
Offered: Wednesday, September 10th, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Presenter: Brock Dolman
Cost: FREE!
Location: Environmental Technology Center on the northwest corner of the SSU campus
BASINS OF RELATIONS: THINKING LIKE A WATERSHED
Water is our most important resource yet we face issues of water shortage and run-off pollution, two problems that can become one solution. Join permaculture designer and watershed expert Brock Dolman to investigate how changing our thinking and our design to slow, spread, and sink water on our property we can use less potable water, decrease flooding, improve water quality, stream structure and function, increase groundwater recharge, enhance wildlife habitat, provide short term and long term economic benefits and improve local aesthetics.
Brock Dolman is a biologist, innovative permaculture design consultant, director of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center's WATER Institute. He is a co-founder of both the Sowing Circle LLC intentional community and the widely acclaimed Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC). He has extensive experience in irrigation, uplands and riparian watershed management, natural building, wildlife biology, native plant botany, organic agriculture, perennial polyculture, sustainable forestry, seed saving, wild lands biodiversity preservation, school garden teacher training and school garden installation, alternative energy systems, consensus community and participatory social organizing methodologies. He is founder of OAEC's WATER Institute & Basins of Relations four-day residential watershed training, which has resulted in the formation of 27 community-based watershed groups in Northern and Central California. He is on the appointed board of the Sonoma County Fish and Wildlife Commission.
The first lecture this year (Element topic: WATER) will be held on Wednesday, September 10th at 6:30PM in the Environmental Technology Center on the northwest corner of the SSU campus. For more information on this series go to www.sixelementsofsustainability.blogspot.com.
To download the flyer for this event, click here (350 KB).
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