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 A Design~Build~Live Special Event
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Earthen Plaster Presentation and Book Signing by Carole Crews of Taos, New Mexico
Carole Crews, is an artist, author, natural builder, and plaster guru who has worked with mud and finishes for earthen buildings professionally for 25 years. She specializes in aliz (clay slip finish), historic restoration and making art from simple materials. Copies of Carole’s much-anticipated book will be available for sale and signing. Visit Carole’s website for more info on the author/artist/artisan and photos of her work.
Hosted by: Stanley Architects and Artisans (Watch for a future DBL site visit to Lauren and Lars Stanley’s permaculture homestead featuring a green roof and rainwater harvesting)
Location: 1901 E.M. Franklin Ave., Austin, Texas 78723
Note: The venue is on the northeast corner of MLK and E.M. Franklin. Please park on E.M. Franklin and enter the site via the gate near MLK. We will meet in the studio that fronts on MLK. Seating may be limited, so please bring a folding chair if you can.
This event is free and open to the public, but modest donations to DBL are always appreciated.
 A Design~Build~Live Special Presentation at City Hall
Monday, November 16, 2009, 2:30 – 4:30 pm
Sustainable development today is grappling with how to treat and reuse water in projects. LEED gives credits for water treatment and reuse, and the Living Building Challenge, at the forefront of green design, mandates it. Conventional treatment technology is centralized, expensive, energy intensive and difficult to translate onsite to buildings or developments. This presentation will discuss proven onsite water treatment solutions that offer the benefits of being attractive, inexpensive, flexible, robust, and low maintenance while using little-to-no energy.
 Come learn about alternatives to centralized water treatment systems – alternatives that are sustainable and distributed, making treated water available for reuse locally where it’s needed. Both residential and commercial systems will be discussed. Also included will be a brief digression with pictures on European natural swimming pool technology which uses constructed wetlands instead of chlorine.
Presenters: Whole Water Systems principals are pioneers in sustainable onsite water treatment and have been designing biological treatment systems including constructed wetlands for more than twenty years. www.wholewater.com
Morgan Brown, LEED AP, NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer, BS electrical engineering. President, Whole Water Systems
David Venhuizen, P.E., MS civil engineering, BS biology. Principal Engineer, Whole Water Systems
Decentralize water treatment pioneer with 25 years design experience
 Who should attend? City/regional water and stormwater regulators, civil engineers, landscape architects, architects, permaculturists, motivated general public.
Location: Austin City Hall, Council Chambers, 301 West 2nd Street, Austin, TX 78701 (Map) Note: Parking in the City Hall parking garage beneath the building is free if you bring your parking ticket in for validation.
Admission: Free and open to the public
Thanks to Council Member Chris Riley for sponsoring this DBL water conservation event at the City Hall Council Chambers.
A Design~Build~Live Monthly Presentation: Water as a Cherished Resource
Wednesday, November 18, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Lance Armstrong Foundation, 2201 East 6th Street, Austin,TX (Map)
Continuing with DBL’s water priority, our guest presenters will discuss two wonderful, sustainable alternatives to conventional water systems:
 Beautiful, healthful swimming pools that rely on biological systems rather than toxic chlorine to treat the water.
Attractive, vegetated constructed wetlands that treat wastewater naturally, as an alternative to conventional septic tanks that simply dispose of it.
 
Guest Presenters:
Morgan Brown, LEED AP, NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer, electrical engineer and President, Whole Water Systems, www.wholewater.com
David Venhuizen, P.E. civil engineer, biologist. Decentralize water treatment pioneer with 25 years design experience
This presentation is free and open to the public. No reservation required. For more information contact Gayle at gayle@designbuildlive.org or 512-478-9033.
 Attention Straw Bale Builders!
For Sale: 80 bamboo poles for straw bale wall construction. Random lengths 8 ft. and longer. Good diameters for external pinning. Clean, solid, dry, bundled and ready to use. $100.00.
Contact Frank 512-517-9272.
A series of presentations on permaculture at Habitat Suites Hotel, 500 East Highland Mall Blvd., Austin, Texas
Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, 7:00 – 8:30 PM
“Texology” – Getting to Know this Place – Central Texas; Ancient History, Plate Tectonics, no Oil/Gas, mucho Limestone, unique soil, great rivers/few rains
Dick Pierce’s fun, informative talk on this incredible place
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, 7:00 – 8:30 PM
“Permaculture & Alternate Finances, Banking & Commerce – aka “Re-localization”
Presented by Dick Pierce
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, 7:00 – 8:30 PM
“Other Stories to Be In” – Ideas for us/today from other cultures, other times, other places.
All are welcome – attend yourself, bring/invite friends, neighbors – young, old, attentive youth, students, etc. These are fun and informative.
For more info, contact DickPierce at DickPierceDesigns@gmail.com or 512-992-8858
Also, please check out www.permie.us
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