Learn how to turn your house and yard into a water saving site with greywater systems, rainwater catchment, earthworks, and appropriate landscaping choices. You'll learn about the greywater system at the EcoHouse, the first permitted residential constructed wetland/greywater system in the State of California and the first greywater system in Berkeley to be permitted. We will discuss the principles and process of safely irrigating with shower, bathroom sink, and laundry waste water and include a presentation of greywater design and the application process. We'll also touch on the basics of how to collect rainwater from your house and store it in cisterns or directly in your garden. Earthworks such as berms, basins, french drains, swales and diversion drains can also help offset your need for irrigation and minimize your water use in the summer as well as build soil fertility and stabilize soils. Return home with ideas and plans of your own! Instructor: Babak Tondre. Please specify when registering if ASL interpretation is requested, (at least 10 working days in advance). This workshop is not wheelchair accessible. Space is limited, pre-registration required.
Time: Tours begin at 10am and at 1pm.
Cost: $15 general, $10 EC members, no one turned away for lack of funds.
EcoHouse Tour
Tour the Ecology Center's environmentally friendly demonstration site. Learn about a
broad-spectrum of simple improvements that can be made to green an urban home. The tour
includes: Berkeley's first city-permitted wetland / greywater system, solar panels,
on-demand and solar water heater, water saving fixtures, natural and recycled building
materials, rainwater cistern and water catchment strategies, a living roof garden,
organic permaculture gardening, native drought tolerant plants, mushroom cultivation,
earthworks raingarden, and more. Note: The interior of the home is not included on the
tour. Please specify when registering if ASL interpretation is requested, (at least 10
working days in advance).
Time:
Tours begin at 10am and at 1pm.
Location:
EcoHouse, 1305 Hopkins St., (enter via garden entrance on Peralta), Berkeley.
Cost:
$15 general, $10 EC members, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Info:
510-548-2220 x239, register@ecologycenter.org, http://www.ecologycenter.org/.
What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs
Presented by ADPSR – Architects/ Designers/ Planners for Social Responsibility
May 18, 2010
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
AIA San Francisco 130 Sutter Street, 6th Floor
Co-Sponsored by New Village Press
Celebrate the release of What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs, the latest book from New Village Press, ADPSR's publishing arm. This compendium of original essays looks at the present and the future of our communities through the eyes and insights of more than thirty respected activists, scholars, economists, planners, and public figures around the world whose work has been inspired by Jacobs.
Join contributing authors Clare Cooper Marcus, Chester Hartman, Alan Jacobs, Richard Register, and co-editor Lynne Elizabeth for a conversation about next steps for shaping socially just, environmentally friendly, and economically prosperous urban communities.
“There is no better place to start than this book to see the wisdom Jane Jacobs so astutely covered almost 50 years ago. We are at the precipice of a new era and Jane Jacobs and her aficionados can show us what it could look like. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!”
—Fred Kent, President, Project for Public Spaces
Clare Cooper Marcus is Professor Emerita in the departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the Principal of Healing Landscapes, a consulting firm that specializes in user-needs analysis related to the programming and design of outdoor spaces in healthcare settings. She is internationally recognized for her research on the social and psychological implications of design, particularly urban open space, affordable housing, and environments for children and for the elderly. She has lectured and consulted in the United States, Canada, Britain, Scandinavia, Netherlands, Italy, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, and China. Marcus has been recognized for her work with awards from the AIA, ASLA ,The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She has authored/co-authored/edited numerous publications, including notably Housing As If People Mattered (1986), People Places (1990), House as a Mirror of Self (1995), and Healing Gardens (1999).
Chester Hartman, an urban planner and author, is Director of Research and Founder of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council in Washington, DC. Prior to that, he was a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, and of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. He holds a PhD. in City and Regional Planning from Harvard and served on the faculty there, as well as at Yale, the University of North Carolina, Cornell, the University of California-Berkeley, and Columbia University. He is currently serving as an Adjunct Professor of Sociology at George Washington University. Additionally, Dr. Hartman is the founder and former Chair of the Planners Network, a national organization of progressive urban and rural planners and community organizers, and has been a consultant to numerous public and private agencies. He has nearly two dozen books to his name.
Allan Jacobs is Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and a member of the Department of City and Regional Planning since 1975. He promotes the use of observation as a tool for researching the design of the public realm - streets, spaces, and parks. Prior to his tenure at Berkeley, Jacobs served as Director of Planning for the City of San Francisco from 1967-1975, and has since served as a consultant in city planning and urban design to Curitiba, Brazil; Berkeley; the Los Angeles Redevelopment Authority; Portland; and many other cities. Jacobs is widely known for his publications and research in the field of urban design, including such books as Great Streets, Looking at Cities, and Making City Planning Work. Jacobs holds a Bachelor of Architecture cum laude from Miami University, and a Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. He attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and was a Fulbright Scholar in City Planning at University College London.
Elizabeth Macdonald, Phd., is Associate Professor of City Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. A registered architect and a member of Berkeley's Landscape Architecture Department, she is the the co-editor, with Michael Larice, of The Urban Design Reader, and, with Jacobs and Rofe, the author of The Boulevard Book. A third book on Olmsted's Brooklyn parkways has been accepted for publication. She has consulted widely, in San Francisco, Vancouver, Abu Dhabi, and other cities. A partner in the firm Jacobs Macdonald Cityworks, Octavia Boulevard in San Francisco and Pacific Boulevard in Vancouver are two of the many street design projects she has worked on.
Richard Register is a theorist and educator working on ecological city design, planning, policy development and actual implementation in laws and built projects. He is author of several books including Ecocities - Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature (2006), with more than 120 of his illustrations. He is also founder of the International Ecocity Conference series held in the United States, Senegal Brazil, India and China to date. He speaks frequently at conferences for designers, architects, planners, environmentalists, government officials and concerned citizens around the world.He has founded several organizations and is currently director of EcoCity Builders.
Lynne Elizabeth is founder of New Village Press and past President of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR). She is co-editor of Works of Heart: Building Village through the Arts (2006) and Alternative Construction: Contemporary Natural Building Methods (2000, 2005), and a contributing author for Ecovillage Living (2002) and Sustainable Architecture White Papers (2000). Ms. Elizabeth previously produced periodicals on sustainable community development, New Village Journal and Earthword Journal. She founded the former Eos Institute for the Study of Sustainable Living and has served since 1998 as committee member and former juror for the Berkeley Prize for Architectural Design Excellence.
