6:15 pm
Live Oak Elementary School Gym
1916 Capitola Rd. at Chanticleer
Free/by donation

Desalination and the Alternatives
It's Up to the Community

A forum with:

Debbie Cook, former mayor of Huntington Beach and Board President, Post Carbon Institute
Bill Kocher, Director, Santa Cruz Water Department
Heather Cooley, Pacific Institute
Rick Longinotti, Alternatives to Desalination
John Laird, Moderator

10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Eastside Santa Cruz
$25-$75 sliding scale

Transition Santa Cruz is co-sponsoring a Greywater Community workshop with Golden Love, a local environmental landscaper.

This hands on demonstration workshop will show you what you'll need to know about how to hook up your laundry machine so that the water will irrigate your yard. Installing simple systems such as these will help us all save on water bills once the warm weather hits; and hopefully, reduce the need for costly community water alternatives like a desalination plant.

For 5 years, the Regenerative Design Institute (RDI) and 8-Shields Institute have successfully led an emergent course that weaves Permaculture, Nature Connection, Village Building, Community Leadership and much more. Together, they recognize that Regenerative Design and Nature Connection go hand-in-hand. To design a healthy, abundant life in harmony, we must have a profound connection to nature and gain knowledge in the way nature works.

For the first time ever, a weekend series is offered in Santa Cruz that weaves Nature Connection, a Permaculture Design Certificate Course, and Integrated Kids Programs - all centered around community celebration! And each week will include collaboration with Transition Santa Cruz to provide updates and opportunities for creating the Santa Cruz we want to live in!

For course registration, go to Nature Connection mentor Jon Young's site.

Housing Within Reach:  Of Our Pocketbooks;  Of Our Workplaces, Schools, & Stores

United Methodist Church

250 California St. 7-9pm

 Feb 25:  Housing, Transportation, & Greenhouse Gases     The land use and transportation decisions of the future. With John Doughty, Exec Director, AMBAG, and Celia Scott, former mayor and environmental attorney/planner

March 11:  Next Steps    A community meeting to unite on strategies that will increase and preserve housing affordability for everyone in our community. Led by David Foster, Capitola Housing & Redevelopment Project Manager; Santa Cruz Planning Commission

For more information, contact David Stearns:  davidstearns5 (at) gmail (dot) com

6:30 Introduction to Transition slide show
7:00-9:30 Potluck and Main Gathering
@ Quaker Meetinghouse, 225 Rooney, Santa Cruz
Off Morrissey exit of Hwy. 1 (map)

Towards a Resilient Water Supply—Potluck, Discussion and Connecting Time

With all the rains lately, it might seem hard to put our minds on the fragility of our precious local water supply. And yet, this might be the best time to think about it, before the next drought or the probable drying effects of climate change take hold. With salt water threatening wells from Pajaro to Live Oak, the Santa Cruz County water supply is not currently resilient, and a desalination plant, if built, is not likely to solve all our problems. Yet here, as in other areas, we have barely begun to tap the great creativity of our community. Rick Longinotti will lead a discussion on how our community can sustain the water commons and lower our dependency on fossil fuels at the same time.