Floods, Droughts, Heat Waves, What To Do? Work With Nature's Water Cycles!
Thursday, April 21, 2016, 7 pm at the Fletcher Memorial Library Community Room, 88 Main St. Ludlow VT
Slide show program presented by--- Author and editor Jan Lambert ---With Kelly Stettner , Director of The Black River Action Team --- Sponsored by The Book Nook, Ludlow and Stormwater and Landscapes Education (SWALE) of The Valley Green Journal
Program approximately one hour with time after for questions, socializing and book signing.
Are you concerned about floods, droughts, violent storms and rising temperatures in our region? If so, you are not alone! But there is a way we can all take positive action, in our own communities and on our own properties. It all has to do with how we manage our rainfall!
From the small nation of Slovakia in Eastern Europe come some big ideas on how we can encourage our lands, whether urban or rural, to be in sync with the basic functions of our local water cycles, which directly affect our local weather patterns. Small in name, but huge in importance, local "small" water cycles govern up to two-thirds of our local climates. By sending rainwater into and ditches and storm sewers and directly into rivers, we are preventing rain, a vital resource, from replenishing our local water cycle, and we are actually encouraging floods, droughts, falling water tables, heat waves and violent storms.
Michal Kravcik, world renowned hydrologist and climate scientist of Slovakia, has pioneered in his country a unique program of building many small catchments and ponds throughout urban and rural landscapes, which capture, infiltrate and evaporate precipitation back into the local, or small water cycle, particularly through trees and other plants. Learn how we can apply Kravcik's simple, inexpensive techniques of water catchment throughout our landscapes to help rebalance local small rainwater cycles.
Jan Lambert. editor and writer for the locally distributed free monthly newsletter, The Valley Green Journal, will share with you her slide show on water cycles, and the story of how she has come to be working partners with Michal Kravcik, whom she first met in 2014 via Facebook. In 2015 she became his English language editor and co-author of "A Global Action Plan for the Restoration of Natural Water Cycles and Climate", which is included in her book, Water, Land and Climate--The Critical Connection, featuring about 20 contributors from around the globe. She subsequently co-presented with Kravcik at a Boston conference in October 2015.
Kelly Stettner, director of the local Black River Action Team(BRAT) and featured in Lambert's book, will describe BRAT storm water projects that bring together homeowners and town officials to solve water drainage problems in a way that benefits our landscape.