[Humanpowered] Water, water, everywhere...not anymore!

[Dave Olsen]

I'm surprised that a person who is made up of 90% water would take so long to 
realize that water is truly the key to survival, but with this incredible 
drought on the "Wet" Coast, I now fully understand how critical water is to all 
life.

I was just sent some information that states that the average household uses 
130,000 gallons of water per year.  I still can't wrap my head around that 
number.  We've setup a water system here - from scratch - that uses at most 
4,000 gallons of water in 8 months.  With the winter rains, we splurge and 
probably use 1 or 2,000 gallons the other 4 months.  Of course, that doesn't 
include the garden, which uses about 3 or 4,000 gallons more.  So for a year, we 
use at most 10,000 gallons of water each year.  That's 8% of the average household!

If I were interested in helping to sustain the unsustainable way of life in 
cities, I'd suggest that with our systems, you could have 13x more people using 
the same amount of water.  But I'm not.

I can't believe that any city will survive the mega-droughts to come.  We may 
not be able to here, either.

But I can say that our Natural Building and Living Apprenticeships and Workshops 
will give you all of this information and a lot more, firsthand, in person, so 
you can actually understand it and use it in your life.

We don't require specialized courses as prerequisites, require irrelevant 
courses to increase your tuition bill, or make you sit in a classroom and talk 
at you so that 95% of the information is lost.

We give you 30 hands-on sessions to learn everything YOU want to learn about 
Natural Building with Fast Cob! in a setting that is a bit more enjoyable than a 
classroom.  Okay, that's a vast understatement.  It's spectacular and gorgeous 
and life enhancing.

And we practice water conservation with systems that are easy to use.  In fact, 
they are more effective than if we didn't use them! And you gain all of this 
hands-on knowledge for the rest of your life: experiential learning has been 
proven over and over again to stay with the learner for life; that classroom 
setting may get 5% of the information into your brain, but your brain will then 
retain only 5% of that!

If you're interested in learning what we have to offer, then please visit 
cob.lasqueti.ca\workshops <http://cob.lasqueti.ca/workshops> and fill in an 
application form.  We have 2 more workshops available this August.

In the meantime, stay cool, stay hydrated, and enjoy the water while it lasts!
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Dave Olsen

web: cob.lasqueti.ca 
<http://cob.lasqueti.ca/join-our-mailing-list-for-free-access-to-our-training-videos.html>email: 
cob at lasqueti.ca <mailto:cob at lasqueti.ca>phone: 877.873.1797 or 604.216.6700


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