Sounds like a great evening! January 20th, 7-9PM at the Masion Verte Coop (5785 Sherbrooke West in N.D.G.)

From Maison Verte:

BOOK LAUNCH: Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-ourselves Guide by Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew (South End Press, 2008).

Join author Scott Kellogg in a discussion on urban ecological survival skills. Explore the cross-section of permaculture and social activism including the design of tools and techniques used to secure people’s access to life’s basic necessities: food, water security, shelter, waste management and energy production.

These systems are simple, affordable and are built from salvaged, waste and recycled materials.

They include:

• Soil building and asphalt removal
• Bioremediation (cleaning contaminated soils using plants, fungi and biological processes)
• Rainwater harvesting
• Aquaculture (ponds, plants, fish and algae)
• Passive solar and bicycle windmills
• Biogas and veggie oil biofuels
• Natural construction methods (straw bale, clay woodchip)
• Do-It-Yourself air purification

Biography:

Scott Kellogg is a co-founder of the Rhizome Collective (Austin, Texas), and the director of its sustainability program. A teacher, activist, ecological designer and father, he divides his time between Texas, and the Albany Free School Community in Albany, New York. Scott is currently earning a Masters in Environmental Science from Johns Hopkins University.