Save the Date: Upcoming Sustainable Living Events Mark your calendars for three community events coming up August 11th, 13th, and 15th, in Parkland. These three events are *free* and all are welcome and encouraged to attend as we build a network of passionate and skilled sustainable living practitioners in the South Puget Sound. Thanks to Divine Earth Gardening Project, the PLU Sustainability Office, and the North West EcoBuilding Guild South Sound Chapter for co-sponsoring these events. *From Roof to Tap: rainwater catchment * by *Bruce Hostetter of EarthSystems Northwest* August 11th, 1:00-2:30 pm* Garfield Book Company, Community Room, 208 Garfield St, Tacoma WA, 98444 A look at the basics of roof rainwater catchment systems and an in progress design to achieve potable water from your residential roof. *Ecological Building* * by Joseph Becker of ION Ecobuilding* August 13th, 9:30-11:00 am* PLU Scandinavian Cultural Center An overview of ecological building in this region; buildings and materials that are appropriate,efficient, community-based, and beautiful. *Permaculture Design Presentations* August 15th, 9:30-3:30 pm* PLU Scandinavian Cultural Center Come learn from the Permaculture class’s final projects: sustainability applied to sites around Parkland! This series is only a small piece of the concurrently running full Parkland Permaculture Design Course hosted by Divine Earth Gardening Project which runs Aug 3-15th. For more information check out ( http://www.divinearthgp.com/teaching/83-815-parkland-permaculture-design-course/) or email kelda@riseup.net. For those of you who made it this far but haven't quite heard of Permaculture before, here are a few definitions: "permanent-agriculture", "design systems for sustainable and regenerative human habitat", "the cutting edge of 10,000 year old technologies",or also "common sense". And finally, if you haven't heard of the Swan Creek Park Food Forest yet, you should take a look at this article (which features a picture of my beautiful daughter and partner) from this week's Tacoma News Tribune: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/07/30/3300148/six-months-after-planting-tacomas.html?sp=%2F99%2F1683%2F Best, Nick Lorax