With the prospect of at least ten more years of drought here in California, greywater is a hot topic. This weekend Oak-town’s fabulous Greywater Guerrillas are heading down to Los Angeles for a weekend of talks and workshops. If you’re not in Southern California, make sure to check out their informative website and their new book Dam Nation. We especially enjoy the GG’s project examples.
Here’s the 411 on their LA appearances:
Saturday July 19th: Hands-On Greywater Installation Workshop.
Time: 11am-3pm
Location: Silver Lake (You’ll get an email with directions once registered)
Cost: $30-$40 sliding-scale
To register: email Matt Moses
Workshop will include a presentation on greywater reuse, the design process of the system we’ll be building, and the construction of a greywater system from the washing machine to ornamental of plants. Activities will involve digging, measuring, cutting pipes, observing, and more!
Sunday July 20th: Presentation: How to Disengage from the Water Grid: With Greywater, Rainwater, and Composting Toilets.
Time: 7:30- 9:00
Location: LA Ecovillage 117 Bimini Place, Los Angeles, 90004
Cost: $10 (no one turned away)
For more info contact Lois at the LA Ecovillage 213/738-1254
How to Disengage from the Water Grid- with Rainwater, Greywater, and Composting Toilets. We will connect the water in our lives to local and global water struggles, look at rainwater as a resource, explore options of reusing greywater, and contemplate waterless (composting) toilets. From the apartment, to the house, to the city, ecological sanitation offers a path to a sustainable and just water future.
Monday, July 21; Greywater Design Workshop.
Location: 3983 East Blvd. Mar Vista, CA 90066
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: $25
To register: email Ray Cirino 818-834-7074
Greywater Design Workshop; Interested in reusing your greywater? Want to learn more about it and how to build your own system? Come to our design workshop. We’ll present you with information on the most common, low-tech, low-cost, effective, residential greywater systems. Then we’ll break into groups and help you plan a system for your own home. Participants will be emailed a greywater planning sheet, that you’ll fill out and bring to the workshop.
Monday and Tuesday (July 21st and 22nd) Greywater Consultations.
If you are interested in having a consultation and/or system design for your own home, please contact Laura Allen at least one week before the consultation dates.
man i would love to make it up to see these talks.
do you have any suggestions for how to get such great speakers to make their way down into my neck of the woods, san diego? for that matter are there groups like eco-village in my city that you know of? i would like to connect with homesteaders and other diy urban guerillas down here. thanks, alexdiaz aht ucsd doht edu
Alex,
Kelly and I went to grad school in San Diego and I spent 10 years there. We’re hoping to come down at some point and do a talk.
I think you mean drought, not draught. That word is typically… beer.
But it was a very informed posting. I practice greywater harvesting here in CT. Using only soap I make for washing my clothes or showering, makes it much safer to use it in the garden to water my food garden
anonymous,
Thanks for the spell check – corrected. Now I need a beer!