Thursday, September 22, 2011: 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
California Center for Sustainable Energy
8690 Balboa Ave., Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92123

Candace Vanderhoff LEED AP presents capturing rain water and greywater: innovative landscape techniques. Learn how to transform a small urban landscape into a regenerative, water culture by using greywater, rainwater, compost and earthworks. Her vibrant and beautiful site uses salvaged bamboo, wood, concrete and mud to create a model for up-cycling, reusing and showcasing our two most valuable unappreciated resources - water and discarded construction materials.

Based on the regenerative principles of permaculture design (permanant culture) Candace will present how rainwater harvesting and greywater reuse, bioswales and earthworks can create a healthy and vibrant urban landscape while reducing potable water use. Learn how to transform a small urban landscape into a regenerative, water culture by using greywater, rainwater, compost and earthworks. A vibrant and beautiful site will show how salvaged bamboo, wood, concrete and mud - create a model for up-cycling: reusing and showcasing our two most valuable unappreciated resources, water and discarded construction materials.

Candace Vanderhoff LEED AP

Candace received a masters degree in 1999, from the Southern California institute of Architecture. She also studied Permaculture, waste water management and indigenous architecture. Originally from Michigan where she worked in construction, economic development and labor organizing. She helped launch the Detroit Self Employment Project  micro-enterprise program for women on assistance and MOMs bakery a workers cooperative for women. This lead to the study of Women's cooperative and banks in India. In 1997-98 she taught architecture at the Ponape Agriculture and Trade school, in Micronesia. During that time she began researching indigenous island architecture and traveled throughout the Central Pacific documenting the spiritual connections of building to people. In 2003 she was a  Research Scholar at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and a visiting fellow at Queensland University of Technology in Australia to continue the research. Living in San Diego since 2000, she has focused exclusively on design, building, teaching and implementing strategies and programs to create a sustainable San Diego. Programs she has developed and taught include the Village Design Project, a renewable energy curriculum, Habitat Heros - a native plants restoration program, Design Build Women - natural building workshops and the Schoolyard Pizza Oven project. In 2006 she designed a modular green residence for Katrina victims and is currently working on a classroom for a school in Ghana. She was on the founding board of the Natural Building Network and is currently the Executive Director of Las Casitas - Sustainable Living Teaching Initiative. She is the owner of RainThanks & Greywater, an Integrated Water Systems business working to create a regenerative water culture in the San Diego bioregion.

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