Water and Integrated Design
Ecological Design for Drought, Fire Flood, Climate and More
with Art Ludwig
Tuesday,April 28th 7-9 pm $20
at PLACE for Sustainable Living 1121 64th St. Oakland, CA
We'll cover—
- The historic opportunity posed by this drought
- The necessity for systems thinking
- The water-energy-climate connection
- How to make an accurate, four dimensional map of your context
- Water budgets and infographics
- How you can dramatically improve the water budget on your land and community
- The smart money is on green infrastructure
- The role of humans in the ecosystem; taking the edge off flood and drought
- Rainwater infiltration
- Outdoor and indoor residential water efficiency
- Water reuse
- Greywater systems
- The impact of transportation choices on the water cycle
- Sustainability policy
- What you can do
- Discussion with audience
Audience: Permaculturalists, Landscape professionals, policy makers, homeowners, students...
This talk will be technical but accessible. There will be something here for people at all levels of familiarity with these concepts.
Optimal Integrated Design: the dynamic balance between all the relevant factors in a given context
Helpful Preparation
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The more of the background info below you understand (or have been exposed to) before coming, the more you will get out of the presentation.
The following is worth reading all the way through:
- Green 4,000 ft2 home?
- Eco Design Principles-download
- Laundry to landscape
- Oasis greywater-book
- Common greywater mistakes
Resources mentioned in the talks
- Fruit tree chart(xls, PDF)
- How to measure Perk
- Eco home checklist-pdf
- Water testing-download
- Laundry to landscape parts
- Laundry to landscape installers
- Water Calculations Spreadsheet
- Mulch Basins Flyer
- Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (book by Brad Lancaster)
- Runoff
- Laundry 2 landscape-video
- Oasis greywater-book
- Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (book by Brad Lancaster)
- GW site assessment checklist-pdf
- Stub outs
- What driving costs
- Legalize sustainability
- Greywater policy center
- CA gray water policy center
- More books, downloads and other information in our Catalog.
Stairs that double as channel to direct runoff to a 100,000 gallon cistern in Spain
Art Ludwig's Bio (short)
Read Art Ludwig's bio, long version, instead
Art Ludwig has 42 years full-time experience with integrated design for water, wastewater, energy, shelter, human powered transport, finances, building codes, and policy. His specialty is complex, integrated "systems of systems." Art has studied and worked in 27 different countries, attaining fluency in 5 languages. He has consulted for the states of New York, California, and New Mexico on water reuse policy and building codes, and given dozens of lectures and workshops. He has developed numerous innovations which have been adopted worldwide, incorporated in building codes, etc., all of which he has published unpatented into the public domain. These include the Laundry to Landscape and Branched Drain greywater systems.
He designed his own education in Ecological Systems Design, graduating from UC Berkeley. At Berkeley, he developed the first cleaners specifically designed to be biocompatible with plants and soil, and founded a successful business to manufacture and distribute them. Art has authored numerous articles as well as the books "Water Storage" "Principles of Ecological Design," and "Create an Oasis with Greywater."
The past several years Art has dedicated approximately a thousand hours a year to public interest research and sustainabilty policy activism.