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4 Green Fire Times • July 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com Vol. 9, No. 7 • July 2017 Issue No. 99 PUBLISHER Green Fire Publishing, LLC Skip Whitson ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Barbara E. Brown News & Views from the Sustainable Southwest EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Seth Roffman Winner of the Sustainable Santa Fe Award for Outstanding Educational Project DESIGN Green Fire Production Department COPY EDITOR CONTENTS Stephen Klinger WEBMASTER Karen Shepherd Essential Steps in Preparing Chile con Cariño or TLC — Alejandro López ...... 7 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS John Alejandro, Virginia Cervantes, Nancy Grace, Katherine Mortimer, Alejandro López, The Magnet of Spanish Market — Alejandro López ...... 9 Carol Pittman, Seth Roffman CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Alejandro López, Cole Merrick, Seth Roffman Book Review: Sisters in Blue by Anna M. Nogar and Enrique R. Lamadrid ...... 10 PUBLISHER’S ASSISTANTS Cisco Whitson-Brown, Steve Jinks, Gay Rathman Community Conversations on Santa Fe’s 25-Year Sustainability Plan — John Alejandro.11 ADVERTISING SALES Call: 505-471-5177 Email: [email protected] Santa Fe’s Inaugural Verde Fund Investments ...... 15 John M. Nye 505.699.3492 [email protected] Skip Whitson 505.471.5177 Buildings that Conserve Resources — Katherine Mortimer ...... 17 [email protected] Anna C. Hansen 505.982.0155 [email protected] Report on the First Annual Next Generation Water Summit — Nancy Grace . . . 21 Steve Jinks 505-303-0501 [email protected] OP-ED: Augustín Plains Water Mining Case Update — Carol Pittman...... 25 Lisa Powers 505.629.2655 [email protected] DISTRIBUTION Low Energy Nuclear Reaction — Virginia Cervantes...... 29 Linda Ballard, Barbara Brown, Co-op Dist. Services, Nick García, Scot Jones, Andy Otterstrom (Creative Couriers), PMI, Daniel Rapatz, Tony Rapatz, Wuilmer Rivera, Denise Tessier, Skip Whitson, John Woodie 14th Annual International Folk Art Market — Santa Fe...... 31 CIRCULATION: 30,000 copies Printed locally with 100% soy ink on 100% recycled, chlorine-free paper Newsbites ...... 19, 27, 37 GREEN FIRE TIMES c/o The Sun Companies P.O. Box 5588, SF, NM 87502-5588 What’s Going On...... 38 505.471.5177 • [email protected] © 2017 Green Fire Publishing, LLC

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6 Green Fire Times • July 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com ESSENTIAL STEPS in PREPARING CHILE con CARIÑO or TLC Article and photos by Alejandro López

e can all agree that eating excellent- had been grown on the windowsill. Together they quality chile is an unforgettable constituted a plentiful supply of young plants that experience. This is particularly would replenish areas where sown seed had failed trueW when its heat is matched by its flavor. to germinate or had come up sparsely. When this Should chile—either the roasted green peppers labor-intensive process called la traspuesta del chile in midsummer or a red sauce in late fall— (the transplanting of chile) was over, it left the successfully induce a sinus- or head-clearing fields thick with plants and redolent with the sweat on a par with the best saunas, then it can be promise of an abundant yield. said without a doubt that this food is nothing less than “exhilarating, restorative, cleansing and even We did not particularly mind transplanting life-changing.” And that, my friends, is saying a chile because both in the early morning and late lot for any one food. evening, bird song filled the air and the light was so fantastically beautiful, especially when Most of us also readily acknowledge that chile, it reflected off the water. Aside from this, we with its flavor and health-enhancing properties, enjoyed dodging places where water had seeped is indeed a precious gift from the pre-Colombian deep into the soil, where a misstep would result gods of México and the many generations of in our sinking deep into the mud (amid much people who cultivated this invaluable crop across raucous laughter). millennia. They cared for its seeds and handed down the many traditions associated with the During the rest of the summer, the plants Chile and corn grown in Santa Cruz, New Mexico plant and its fruit. required constant weeding, much of which had to be done by hand in order to do it well. Indeed, What most people do not know, however, is that the many thousands of plants that populated made. He would have us dish out a spoonful of the weeding of every last plant was the true that through careful cultivation, this unusual his fields would be adequately cared for because, damp seed for every cluster of plants we wished test of our collective regard for this crop. Two food/spice reveals myriad hidden faces and its luckily for him, he had seven obedient sons who to grow at certain intervals along a given row. or three days after weeding, the field would be deepest essence. It is through the close symbiotic would see to it. We carefully thrust spoonfuls into small holes irrigated with carefully regulated streams of water relationship between humans and the plant that about three to four inches deep. The holes had in order to prevent erosion. When the plants one’s understanding and appreciation for this Each year, late in the winter, my father would been dug into the sides of the furrows where the finally produced buds and their customary five- digestible form of fire grows exponentially before ruminate about what crops he would plant, flow of the water could easily reach the seeds. The petaled downward-turned white flowers, one felt it is put on the table, where it is often relished and where. Not long seeds were covered with requited for all of the effort to that point. It did with equal measures of dread, awe and delight. after that, the tall coffee dirt using a hoe handled not take long for pods to form, and before you tin in which the chile Chile can be by a second person. They knew it, you found yourself searching for a few I was lucky enough to have been a member of seeds were kept would were spaced about 18 firm chiles to bite into (if you liked the stuff ). At one of those generations that had been charged come out of hiding. A exhilarating, restorative, inches apart so that each around the same time, it was necessary to support by history to cultivate this plant, care for its few months later, when plant would have ample the plants’ elongated stems and stalks by piling seeds and, during my youth, fill endless baskets spring was at its apogee, cleansing and even room to grow. mounds of dirt around each cluster. This was and gunnysacks with its firm pods, both red and he would find an old carried out with a hoe and plenty of muscle. If green. I did not start out loving chile as I do now. broad-brimmed blue life-changing. With the pool of you did not do this, the wind would wreak havoc Actually, I had quite the opposite reaction. flowerpot and fill it with rich soil. He would delicate chile seeds, it was always difficult to with the plants and hasten their demise. My also soak nearly two pounds of the tiny, flat, predict whether they would come up in thick father’s chile plants were always carefully tended As a child, whenever my tongue came into yellowish seeds for a couple of days in another clumps, as sparse individuals here and there, or and normally grew to nearly three feet. They were contact with this food that found its way into can partially filled with water, before burying not at all. If they came up in clumps, we would his absolute pride and joy. It could almost be said many of our staple dishes, I would cry out in pain them in the flower pot. He would place the pot wait a few weeks until the plants grew to a certain that, as his sons, we had to compete with them and reach for the nearest bread, milk, or other on a windowsill where the sun’s light and warmth size before thinning them. Transplanting young for his attention. neutralizing food or drink. Besides disliking its would cause the seeds to sprout within a couple plants was carried out while irrigating the field so sting and my inability to eat it, I also disliked the of weeks. With all of the cariño or affection of a that they would avoid going into shock. On wet The harvesting of chile verde began in earnest once endless work it created for my brothers and me father, he doted over the pot and the seedlings ground, with a single movement of the hand, one it was clear that many of the pods had grown out in the fields. that soon began raising their little cabecitas. could desahijar the surplus plants while leaving macizos or firm, that their surfaces were shiny, the rest undisturbed. and that they exuded the prerequisite aroma Chile was my father’s favorite food as well as Days later, around the 15th of May, when the peculiar to the biting variety of the medium- his most cherished cash crop. For that reason, danger of frost had mostly passed, he would The seedlings that had been removed would be sized, flavorful chile common to northern New he grew acres and acres of it. He never doubted arrange for our land to be plowed and furrows placed in a small pot of water beside those that CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • July 2017 7 Chile con Cariño continued from page 7 Mexico. My brothers and I would start amassing on a south-facing wall to dry during the long lots of baskets and every available gunnysack. We sunny fall days. Other times, we removed the each would take one or two rows and strip every stems and seeds from every last pod and carried A PARADE OF HOMES plant clean of harvestable chile. In some cases, them in baskets up a ladder to our scorching- after several pickings, the chile that remained hot attic. We would deposit bushelful after would be left to ripen into the highly prized chile bushelful on the floor, which we had covered colorado or red chile. In other cases, entire patches with butcher paper. were off limits to everyone. All of the pods on those plants were left to ripen into chile colorado. After the chile had thoroughly dried out, we collected the translucent, brittle, crimson pods Unending streams of local residents always and took them to a local mill where they were came directly to our farm to buy green chile. ground into a fine red powder that made you Even though our prices were extremely sneeze and cough. Red chile powder served reasonable—especially by today’s standards— multiple uses. Most often it became the basis of my mother always insisted that we fill to a fiercechile con carne that fed the whole family the brim the containers we used to measure and that no one, myself included (eventually), the quantities, especially the bote de diez or could stay away from, even though it burned a pail that had contained 10 pounds of some like the dickens. cooking ingredient. Rather than exploit the customer in any way, it was always her desire In the summertime, the culminating expression that they benefit in of this unofficial some way beyond a Nuevo Mexicano purely commercial chile cult (heir transaction. I am to some of the certain that this most interesting practice accounts chile traditions for the good karma of the ancient our vast family Meso-Americans) enjoys to this day. were the pure fire sandwiches - Santa Fe’s Best Open House - Like other farmers, my father made. we too, on a daily These sandwiches basis consumed a consisted of the portion of what we hottest green chile Save the Date produced. There he could find. My was always fresh mother roasted it, green chile being but it was my father AUGUST 11-13 & 18-20 roasted on a griddle who finely chopped or stove and served and seasoned it 11 AM - 6 PM | Tickets are only $15 at our table. Once with fresh garlic For entry information, sponsorship opportunities or twice during the and a profusion of season we lit large salt, which turned and to learn more, visit sfahba.com fires in our outdoor the top of this adobe oven, got it concoction nearly red hot, cleared out white. He then the coals and finally thickly piled it threw in several between two pieces Reserve your tickets online at tinyurl.com/SFPOH and Green chile grown in Santa Cruz, New Mexico bushels at a time to of Wonder Bread. download the Haciendas app for a virtual tour roast. We made sure Next, with one hand to stir the pods with a long wooden paddle so on his plate, he compressed this dangerous mix that they would not burn—just blister and pop of a sandwich, picked it up with both hands, open, letting out their intoxicating aroma, which held it up to his mouth and took the first bite. THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS signaled the arrival of late summer and fall. He would then proceed to turn colors, of course, but would not stop carving away at it until it My mother and sisters would gather around the totally disappeared. kitchen table with its mounds of roasted chile and peel the skins off of each pod until they could I have often wondered if the fire of his preferred D E S T I N A T I O N no longer stand the burning sensation in their food was not in some way responsible for the hands. They would tie small bunches into ristras ardor with which he worked and made us work, and especially for his fiery, no-nonsense temper, SOUTHWESTERN TITLE and hang them up to dry on the porch beneath & ESCROW, INC. netting of some sort. In the wintertime, that chile which prevented us from ever telling him that would end up in green chile stews without losing we would have preferred to have spent our any of its rich flavor or bite. An alternative to summers doing things like walking on stilts or this process was to fill innumerable small plastic rolling discarded car tires. Now, of course, we are bags with the peeled chile and stick them in the proud to be heirs to the singular tradition of the Coronado Paint & Decorating freezer for occasional use until the next year’s indigenous chilero, or chile farmer/merchant that crop came in. identifies us as being native to the Americas in Guardian Mortgage Santa Fe Title Chaparral Materials some fundamental way.  Once the red chile was picked, it needed to be SANTA FE AREA HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION dried quickly or it would start to rot. At times Alejandro López is a northern New Mexican we tied red chile into ristras and hung them educator, writer and photographer.

8 Green Fire Times • July 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com THE MAGNET of SPANISH MARKET his year, on July 29 and 30, the 66th annual traditional Spanish Market will once Mexico and southern Colorado will take place throughout the week. again bring to life the Santa Fe Plaza and its adjoining streets, with cultural and artistic treasures that are sure to overwhelm the senses. Spanish Market, sponsored Contiguous to the traditional Spanish Market is the Hispanic Contemporary Market on Lincoln by the Spanish Colonial Arts Society of Santa Fe, brings together approximately 250 Spanish Avenue, which features hundreds of Latino artists who work in contemporary media such as metal T sculpture, etching and lithography, oil painting, watercolors, photography, ceramics and digital colonial artists and their creations from New Mexico and southern Colorado. media. On the central bandstand of the Plaza, visitors will be treated to the lively music and dance Among the arts that can be traced back 400 years featured in the market are weaving and colcha from this same age-old community, responsible for shaping much of New Mexico’s history. On embroidery, tinwork, Santo and furniture-making, filigree jewelry, ironwork and pottery, along Sunday morning, a special Market Mass will be held at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of with many others. Artists who show at Spanish Market undergo a rigorous selection process, Assisi. The annual traditional and contemporary markets have become a tremendous magnet, and only the best are chosen to display their work. This year a preview of the juried work will be not only for collectors, but also for the families and friends of the artists who take advantage of held at El Museo Cultural in the Railyard on Friday, July 28. Special gallery exhibits, lectures, the occasion to renew their ties and to support their valuable and historic place-based culture. films and talks related to the cultural outpouring of the Indo-Hispano community of New – Alejandro López Photos from Spanish Market 2016

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he Sustainable Santa Fe issues were based on the initial set of draft Commission (SSFC) is a recommendations. volunteer citizen-advisory Tcommission charged with advising the After the poster sessions at the GCCC city’s governing body on sustainability- and Hotel Santa Fe sessions, attendees related programs, projects and policies. participated in table discussions organized In 2014 the city council and mayor by topics: Energy & Built Environment; passed a resolution calling for the city Transportation & Land Use; Water; Housing, to become carbon-neutral by 2040. To Food & Education; and Environmental help achieve that goal of achieving zero Stewardship, Climate & Waste. Crosscutting carbon emissions (greenhouse gases that issues discussed were Social Equity and contribute to global warming), in 2015 the Economic Development. The facilitators at SSFC was charged with developing a 25- each table asked: Year Sustainability Plan that also addresses 1. What issues are most important to you? renewable energy, energy efficiency, land 2. What issues are missing from the use and water use, while developing posters? a path by which the city can improve 3. What is your highest priority for the overall well-being of its citizens. action? Sustainable Santa Fe community conversation at Chainbreaker Collective. May 2017 4. How do you see yourself participating To assist with the planning effort, the in the solution? commission created 10 committees comprised of over 50 subject-matter At the Southside Library session experts from the community to identify facilitated by Earth Care there were and develop a set of sustainability- three discussion tables organized by related recommendations that could be scale of sustainability actions: 1) USE, implemented in the near-, medium- and HOME: Resources we control and use in our long term to achieve the city’s goals. homes – waste, water, food and the barriers there are to action; 2) DISTRIBUTION, Community outreach and feedback on NEIGHBORHOOD: Access to resources the initial elements of the plan were seen —how our housing, transportation, as being critical to the plan’s development education and employment impact our and ultimately its overall success. To ability to live a sustainable life, and what engage the community, the commission our ideas are for how to change that; and 3) held four community meetings throughout SUPPLY, SYSTEM-WIDE: Supply-side May 2017 at the Genoveva Chávez of resources— where our resources originate Community Center (GCCC), Hotel Santa and what we can do to protect and make more

Fe, Southside Public Library (convened in environmentally friendly the ways in which © Seth Roffman (2) collaboration with Earth Care) and at the our resources are acquired. Sustainable Santa Fe Commission Chair Beth Beloff (center) discusses ideas with community members Chainbreaker Collective’s center (convened in collaboration with Chainbreaker). The Chainbreaker event had four tables Close to 200 people from throughout the organized into the two topics that most • Work with environmental organizations • Better public transportation to grocery community participated. impact climate change in Santa Fe: to implement the plan. stores is needed. Transportation and Built Environment. • Train an array of people on the jobs • Set a goal of 100 percent renewables. Each meeting had a 30-minute poster All other topics were discussed under these. needed, like permaculture, local food • Focus on equity supporting the most session of 14 informational posters in The conversations at this session were more production, etc. More job training is impacted people with access to existing English and Spanish that showcased a set freewheeling, with questions focusing on needed. and new resources; work for buy-in of high-priority, draft recommendations which issues were the most important to • Build high-density mixed-use from all stakeholders. from the commission’s working the participants. neighborhoods. • Education as part of equity— not committees. Each poster contained a • Install better Internet and high speed everyone understands sustainability brief background on its specific topic, the Below is a short summary of feedback and Internet in the community. concept. triple-bottom-line impacts of it, and five suggestions that were placed on posters • Get sustainability curricula into schools. • With buildings emitting such a large priority goals and action items that could and communicated at the table sessions. • Find ways to help people in the amount of CO2, retrofitting should be be undertaken to benefit the community. • Continue to educate the public on all community with sustainability a priority. Participants were given the opportunity forms of sustainable practices. programs. • Eco-districts shouldn’t be limited to to indicate which issues they felt were • Incorporate solar solutions in the • Keep engaging different demographics low-income neighborhoods. important within the topic, and whatever community. that make up Santa Fe. • Compost food leftovers and distribute thoughts and concerns they wished • Advance all forms of environmental • Find ways to have people ride more leftovers from restaurants to those in to voice. They were also given sticker technologies in city operations. bikes. need. dots to vote on what they considered • Increase advertising and marketing • Employ youth in the summer to teach • Encourage neighborhood/community to be their top five goals, to inform the campaigns around sustainability—more them about sustainability; create a gardens in all neighborhoods commission as to what the public’s key media attention! Youth Sustainability Corps. CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • July 2017 11 SFO 2017 Green Fire Times.qxp_TSFO 2014 JIN back cover 6/14/17 12:53 PM Page 1

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12 Green Fire Times • July 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com Community Conversations members to provide feedback through adoption of many programs and projects continued from page 11 a variety of ways, enabling them to feel that will be recommended in the 25-Year • Encourage citywide composting and • Businesses need to be educated on how that their voices are being heard and their Sustainability Plan. green-waste pickup. to save energy. opinions valued. • Curbside compost pickup is needed to • Let’s make solar more affordable by Detailed summaries from each get economies of scale for processing. providing expanded programs like low- These community conversations are but community meeting can be found at • Link zero-waste to economic interest loans. a starting point in initiating an ongoing www.sustainablesantafe2040.com . development (e.g., forest/watershed dialogue focused on sustainability. At Also, the work done on the plan to date restoration; turn wood chips to power, Overall, the sessions were well received each meeting, it was clear that educating can also be found there. The public is like they teach at Santa Fe Community by the participants. The number and informing the public about the encouraged to provide feedback on it College). of attendees indicates a high level of programs, policies and projects occurring directly through the website.  • Buy local, create a long-range plan that interest in sustainability efforts from around sustainability are a priority for increases local procurement by 10 percent community members throughout the city the community. The SSFC believes John Alejandro is the renewable energy by 2025. and county. The format of the sessions also such dialogue is important in achieving planner for the City of Santa Fe, and is city • Have a program to convert yard waste demonstrates a willingness of community the goal of carbon neutrality and the staff to the Sustainable Santa Fe Commission. to compost. • Get solar energy fully integrated into Santa Fe, reducing emissions from coal plants. Energy and environmental issues  GCCC  Hotel Santa Fe  Southside Library  Chainbreaker go hand in hand. Santa Fe is in a good position to take a leadership role in this effort. • City government should be taking a stronger role in ensuring the use of solar power for all its buildings— implementing all energy sources the law allows to achieve 100 percent renewable energy use. These demonstration sites could provide job development and economic development. In conjunction with this effort, the city can offer rebates to homeowners to encourage the use of solar energy. • Partner with the state, PNM and local government to encourage the state to: • Develop a tax on carbon dioxide emissions • Tax on gasoline (which can be local also) • Subsidies for renewable energy • Develop storage capacity for renewable energy (such as pumped hydro storage) • Lobby for grid changes to allow 100 percent renewables • Education about the benefits of fresh produce and non-processed foods is critical to change shopping and eating habits. • There are fears that natural or manmade disasters can threaten a fragile food supply. • Climate change will inevitably impact farmers and ranchers; they need to know how to be resilient. • The city needs to address issues of too much blacktop that affects increasing heat and inability to cool off land. Perhaps creating policies around use of rain gardens, infiltration points for water tables and run-off will be important to harness an important resource such as run-off. • Develop cost-effective funding mechanisms to promote energy efficiency in low- and middle-income households. • Education is important, and there needs to be more of it; the kids teach their parents. www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • July 2017 13 Think outside the box. Think outside.

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articularly in the wake of President collaborative will families. The award • Reach out to the community Trump’s announcement that he receive $200,000, will support five years through the Santa Fe Community would withdraw the United States and partners will of Solar Opportunity College and Christus St. Vincent Pfrom the Paris Accord, local action has contribute an Loan Fund expansion. Regional Medical Center to locate moved to the forefront as the best path additional $300,000 Homewise will leverage and qualify the 20 households. forward in mitigating the impacts of in-kind, to meet the initial investment climate change. Along with the Sustainable specific goals on into an additional Mike Loftin, Homewise CEO, said, Santa Fe Commission, the Climate Action climate and poverty $400,000 of debt capital, “Partnerships like this one have real Task Force, Carbon Neutral 2040 and the issues: food security which over five years will potential to change lives and open up Climate Mayors Accord commitment, the and greenhouse gas enable 20 households worlds of access. Homewise is proud to be Verde Fund is one of Santa Fe Mayor Javier production, home per year at 80 percent or working with the city and the Verde Fund, M. Gonzales’ signature environmental energy-efficiency, less of the local median leveraging an initial investment into five Mayor Javier M. Gonzales programs. In addition to combating climate wildfire mitigation, income to access PV years of solar installations on homes for change, it is intended to conserve water and biofuel reduction solar systems using middle-class Santa Feans who are eager to build resiliency and sustainability into the and recycling, youth homelessness, job long-term, low-interest loans and save money, conserve water and electricity, core of Santa Fe’s way of life. creation and career training. make energy and water conservation and play a vital role in the sustainability of upgrades. Homewise projects will: this community.” The fund’s mission is threefold: reduce The project will: • Reduce CO2 emissions by 89 systemic poverty, achieve carbon neutrality, • Create jobs and train 40 young tons per year through solar The combined total of city investment, and empower Santa Fe’s workforce. “The people in sustainability careers PV installation in each year of organizational in-kind matches of fund makes sure taxpayer money is put like weatherization, healthy food the program and reduce CO2 $300,000, and Homewise debt capital to good use supporting local families production, biofuel reduction and emissions an additional 18 tons leverage of $400,000, means that an initial who feel like they’ve been left behind greenhouse management; per year through efficiency city input of $300,000 will have the effect deal with costs of food, water, electricity • Deliver 750 meals per day featuring upgrades; of $1 million in investment into jobs and and other resources that are rising as a local produce to 12 Homework • Save low-income families money sustainability in the neighborhoods where result of climate change. These dollars can Diner sites; on utility bills; and it is most needed.  connect families who are out of work to • Provide 50 boxes of fresh produce to opportunities that come with an economy four distribution sites that work with finally focusing on sustainability at a high families in need; level,” the mayor said. • Reduce the risk of catastrophic fire in 75 acres of the Santa Fe wildland- Santa Fe’s City Council allocated an initial urban interface; $300,000 for the first round of programs. In • Design a permanent housing pilot December 2016, city staff began reviewing with local families to get four young competitive bids from local companies and people off the street; groups that fit the fund’s mission. After • Reduce CO2 emissions by 36 tons interviews with finalists by a committee per year through wildfire mitigation, that included community representatives biomass recycling and energy and issue-experienced staff, the city is efficiency/weatherization efforts; and proposing to award two community-led • Save low-income families money on initiatives with funding for the 2017 cycle. utility bills through energy efficiency/ A Council review and approval process home weatherization. began last month. Melynn Schuyler of YouthWorks said, Award Details “We’ve set big goals for our community- • One awardee, the Verde Community wide impact project. Our partnership will The Verde Fund will train Impact Collaborative, is a community- connect local young people to the economy young people and boost wide collaboration among 12 that they have been traditionally denied the solar industry. organizations, including YouthWorks, entry to, while helping vulnerable families the Food Depot, Reunity Resources, address hunger, save money, build resiliency MoGro, ProScape, Wildfire Network, and prepare Santa Fe for the impacts Interfaith Leadership Alliance, Dashing climate change will have on all of us.” Delivery, All Trees Firewood, Santa Fe Community College, SFPS Adelante • The second is a grant, in the amount of Program for Children, Youth and $100,000, which will go to Homewise, Families Experiencing Homelessness an organization focused on housing

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esigning water and energy but it saves on utility bills, so its life-cycle cost conservation into buildings, can be a good investment. Air-conditioning sometimes called “green” building, equipment efficiency is expressed in SEER isD not only good for reducing the amount (seasonal energy efficiency ratio) and is the of water and energy resources used; it measures of the equipment’s cooling efficiency, also provides more comfortable indoor which is calculated by the cooling output for environments and saves money. a typical cooling season divided by the total electric energy input during the same time Heating and Cooling frame. A higher SEER rating means greater Heat and cold from the outside get into a energy efficiency. SEERs currently range from building in three ways: first by convection, about 14 to as high as 25. where hot or cold air directly enters the building through cracks and openings; Solar thermal panels use the sun to heat second by conduction, where the building liquid which passes through loops behind a materials transmit the temperature glass cover that heats the liquid. The liquid is differential by getting cold or hot themselves pumped into a building to pre-heat hot water © Seth Roffman and transmitting that outdoor temperature and/or pass through pipes in a floor to heat Katherine Mortimer summarizes ideas presented at a Sustainable Santa Fe community conversation. into the building. Insulation is intended to CONTINUED ON PAGE 19 slow that process down. The third way is by electromagnetic radiation, which commonly Building for Efficient Resource Use enters a building as light and heat waves that More Efficient Building come through windows. There are different More Efficient Electricity Use More Efficient Water Use approaches to addressing each. Heating and Cooling

The building Select energy-efficient By sealing building materials where they envelope is appliances and connect to each other, buildings aren’t as tightly sealed equipment. These and insulation reduce your monthly drafty, reducing convective temperature is increased to energy bill. transfer. Unconditioned outside air, either reduce heating and cooling hot or cold, has limited access to enter demand. This Select efficient fixtures reduces the size into the building. By adding insulation, for sinks, showers and of heating and toilets to reduce your conduction is reduced. Insulation is made of cooling equipment you need to buy, water demand. materials that naturally don’t transmit heat saving money. through them as well. Thermal bridges form where insulation is interrupted by building materials. These can be reduced by adding rigid or other contiguous insulation to span 80% 90% those bridges. Curtains, shades or shade cloth can reduce radiation heat transfer.

Lighting is a great way of reducing energy Some of these strategies are built directly Then, select more efficient heating and costs. LED is the current frontrunner in cooling equipment. While the initial cost energy efficiency with compact fluorescents into the building, while curtains and shades Appliances are rated for how efficiently is a bit higher, they save on utility bills next in line. typically require some human intervention to every month. they perform their job open and close, though there are high-tech versions with sensors and automatic controls. Healthy Indoor Air Quality These things are part of the building envelope, O Use native and once the investment in them is made, they Building mate- and drought continue to perform for the life of the building. rials can contain tolerant C pollutants that plants in H H get trapped your yard Improving a building’s envelope reduces the Formaldehyde VOCs inside a building and water Further reduce your heating demand by to be breathed them with heating and cooling demand of the building, using solar thermal panels to heat radiant in by the occupants. Also, carpeting and grey water floors. In Santa Fe this can help balance but in most climates some heating and/or some other items can harbor dust mites and or captured your heating and cooling demands allowing molds. Selecting building materials with no rainwater. cooling is still needed. The next step is to select a combined system sized only for cooling. formaldehyde or VOCs and that can be kept equipment that is sized correctly for the load free of molds and mites reduces occupant’s and that has a high efficiency rating. Water- Passive solar design exposures to pollutants. paired with mass and space-heating equipment efficiency is (typically insulated Healthy ventilation expressed in percentages where 100 percent concrete slab floor rates help exchange Allocate would mean that 100 percent of the energy and adobe interior unhealthy air for some of walls (or exterior healthy air, but that saved used by the equipment is transferred into the walls with insulation be careful as the water for water or air. Typical efficiencies are around 80 on the outside) that outside air might be vegetables are in the sun path cold in the winter or a couple percent, but higher efficiencies, well into the during the day pro- and hot in the of favorite 90-percentiles, are available. Other efficiency vide heat both day and at night. (Close summer, adding to plants using insulated shades at night to maximize heating and cooling efficient measures are used for electric equipment. heat kept in when sun goes down.) loads. irrigation High-efficiency equipment does cost more, www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • July 2017 17 New Mexico’s ReplaceMeNt wiNdow expeRt

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18 Green Fire Times • July 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com maximize the benefits of water. Plants Katherine Mortimer is the Sustainable Land Use Buildings that Conserve Resources in turn provide their own benefits by supervisor for the City of Santa Fe. She facilitated continued from page 17 providing shade, building the soil, the development of green codes for new residents, up its mass for space heating. This basic that, if you generate all your own electricity, providing habitat, supporting pollinators residential additions and remodels, and the recent technology has not changed much over the you are not subject to electric-rate increases, and even food for human consumption. update to a performance code the city hopes to decades, though modern controllers can and your system’s payback is quicker The challenge here in the Southwest is to use as a model for multi-family and commercial increase the efficient use of these systems. with each increase. Federal tax incentives realize those benefits while using water as buildings. [email protected]  In places with lots of sunny days, especially continue to aid in making that payback efficiently as possible. during the winter when heating is needed, even shorter. these can be part of a plan to reduce energy Saving Water Saves NEW MEXICO’S CONSTRUCTION needed to be purchased to heat a building. INDUSTRY IMPROVES Passive solar design is a low-tech strategy Energy and Visa-Versa New Mexico’s construction industry, along with leisure and hospitality, has been where well-placed windows with mass There are clear reasons to conserve water among the state’s fastest-growing industries. According to the U.S. Bureau of La- (concrete or adobe) inside the building and in the arid Southwest with our history bor Statistics, there were 46,000 construction jobs in New Mexico in March 2017. in the path of the sun through windows of droughts that are projected to be even While not comparable to pre-recession numbers, there were enough new jobs to warms the materials, which re-radiates the longer and more severe with climate change. qualify as sixth best in the nation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. heat collected back into the space at night. However, there are reasons to conserve The industry added 3,200 jobs over 12 months since May 2016, up 7.4 percent, ac- Interior window covers that keep the heat water in other regions too due to a strong cording to the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions. Construction-re- from escaping again at night are helpful. link that exists between water and energy. lated gross receipts taxes are up as a result, helping cities’ bottom lines. Overhangs sized to block high summer Water is typically the largest electric bill sun but let in low winter sun help to avoid of a municipality that has a water system. Residential transactions, including multifamily residences, increased 3.5 per- overheating in the summer. Energy is needed to extract the water, cent from April 2016 to April 2017, according to the Realtors Association of New clean it to drinking standards, and move it Mexico. Most were in Bernalillo County. Electrical Demand of through pipes into buildings for use. Energy While homebuilding has been lagging in New Mexico, in Santa Fe both high- Equipment and Lighting is also needed to move the wastewater to a er-end single-family homes and more affordable projects such as those facilitated As with heating and cooling equipment, treatment plan and treat it. On the flip side, by Homewise and the Santa Fe Housing Trust have increased. other appliances can be selected for their both coal and nuclear-energy plants use efficiency rating to reduce electricity large amounts of water in their processes. Homewise has received $5 million in federal New Markets Tax Credit funding to demands. EnergyGuide labels help The net result is that you conserve water construct 20 energy-efficient homes and provide affordable financing to qualified consumers understand how when you conserve energy low-income homebuyers in the “severely distressed census tract” Siler Road/Agua much money they would Greywater can and you conserve energy Fría area, which has started to become an innovative epicenter of commercial ac- save the average household. when you conserve water. tivity. U.S. Bank, the project’s investor, will receive a federal income-tax credit and That usage may not match also be directed Homewise will get a low interest rate for its capital investment. yours, especially if it is a Conserving water APARTMENT AFFORDABILITY IN NEW MEXICO commercial rather than under the surface indoors has become quite residential use. However, familiar to people in the According to a report from an affordable housing advocacy group, the Washington, D.C.-based National Low Income Housing Coalition, using U.S. Census data, in 10 knowing how your use to planting areas. Southwest. Low-flow New Mexico counties, residents have to earn an average of $38,825 a year to afford a differs from a typical household can help you faucets, showerheads and toilets have modest two-bedroom apartment and utilities. That means that at the statewide min- decide how much efficiency is worth buying become ubiquitous, and their costs now imum wage of $7.50 an hour, residents need to work 84 hours a week to afford that up front. If you will use the equipment more match those of their higher-use brethren. apartment. In Santa Fe County, according to the report, a household needs to earn than the average, your savings per year will Clotheswashers and dishwashers have about twice that amount. Santa Fe is the most expensive place in the state for rent. similarly be higher. similarly become much more water- conserving with recent advances. However, HOME-BASED WORK AND CO-WORKING Lighting uses more energy than many water-conserving landscapes still evoke SPACES BECOMING MORE COMMON people realize. New light bulbs, such as images of dusty, barren wastelands with a New Mexico has had the highest unemployment in the nation for some time, but compact fluorescents and light-emitting cactus here and there. This reputation is in May, at 6.6 percent, the state was surpassed by Alaska’s 6.7 percent. Colorado diodes (LEDs), can reduce the electrical unwarranted. Drought-resistant plants can had the lowest rate in the nation, 2.3 percent. demand of lighting substantially. You can create attractive landscapes. Additionally, by also take advantage of natural lighting taking advantage of the water that falls on Reflecting a national trend, the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions by designing window locations to take roofs, either by directing it to planted areas reports that 4.7 percent of New Mexico’s workforce is home-based. New Mexico th advantage of this free resource. or by keeping it in rain barrels or cisterns ranked 18 in the country for home-based workers from 2011 to 2015 in the U.S. for use during the days following a rain, it is Census American Community Survey. Phantom electrical loads come from the possible to create more lush landscapes that This may be a promising development for the state’s economic future. New Mex- energy used by electronic equipment that include vegetable gardens and fruit trees. ico is largely a rural state, and a remote workforce is one way for companies to work with remote controls (computers, Greywater (water from showers, washing recruit skilled workers who may not want to relocate. Telecommuting, however, TVs, etc.) use energy continually, “waiting” machines and bathroom sinks) can also be requires a stable Internet connection, which is not available everywhere. to receive a signal from the remote control. directed under the surface to planting areas. While it’s a small amount of energy, it can More elaborate systems can be used to clean This form of work also reduces companies’ needs for office space and has led to add up. 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he first annual Next Generation pueblos, and residents living within the Water Summit took place at the Pojoaque-Nambé-Tesuque stream system Santa Fe Convention Center north of Santa Fe. Construction of a new fromT June 4–6. The event was hosted by the regional water system, designed to reduce Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce, dependence on groundwater, is scheduled to the Green Builder® Coalition, the City begin in 2018, with completion by 2024. Ely of Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Area Home explained the options for people currently Builders Association. Santa Fe Community using well water, which situations are and College was the official education sponsor are not covered by the agreement, and from (and site of the pre-conference QWEL where the water for the new system will be certification course in water-efficient sourced. For information about workshops landscaping). Green Builder® Media was to learn what your options are under the the national media sponsor. agreement, go to www.santafecountynm. gov/public_works/ Over 40 speakers Water and energy are utilities/aamodt Kim Shanahan, executive officer of the Architect/author/researcher Ed Mazria gave presentations, Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association founded the think-tank Architecture 2030. which were grouped intertwined in both The Santa Fe Green into three tracks: Expo ran concurrently Builders, Developers energy production with the first day of & Architects; Water the conference, offering Professionals, and and energy use. information about green Policy. Roughly three-quarters of the products, publications, organizations and speakers were from Santa Fe (city or services, including the Santa Fe Watershed county), the rest from across the country. Association, the City of Santa Fe’s Water Division, and New Water Innovations, a The first day’s 12 presentations were free Santa Fe water-treatment company. and geared to the general public. Topics included an update on the Santa Fe green Networking lunches provided a casual building code; an explanation of the Water opportunity for presenters and attendees to Efficiency Rating Score (WERS®), now share information around common areas of required for all new building in Santa Fe; interest, in small groups organized topically passive and active rainwater collection; by table. On Monday evening, a screening greywater and blackwater systems; drip- and discussion of the 2016 film Beyond the irrigation basics; plant viability in the Mirage: The Future of Water in the West was changing New Mexico climate; water held at the Jean Cocteau Cinema. rights in northern New Mexico, and how Mazria’s keynote address at the Next Generation Water Summit rain gardens and curb cuts affect soil The two professionally focused days of the moisture retention. summit included presentations on water efficiency, water conservation, making Bill Eckman, primary trainer at the regional water groups work, water leak EnergySmart Academy at Santa Fe detection, land use and water management, Community College, spoke on the food- storm water as a resource, the future of the energy-water nexus, highlighting an national WaterSense program, regulatory important theme running through the and technical barriers to adoption of water conference: that the interrelationships reuse, and more. The Water Efficiency among these areas are critically important, Rating Score (WERS®), developed in Santa are not talked about enough, and are often Fe, was a centerpiece topic of the conference. hidden. Eckman noted that we often don’t There were five presentations on various make good environmental decisions for aspects of the system, including a case study the simple reason that the true costs and on Santa Fe’s recent adoption of WERS®. implications of a given choice are not known. He used the example of a quarter- Ed Mazria, an international leader in green pound hamburger, which takes 660 gallons building and maximizing energy efficiency, of water to produce. gave the first keynote address, discussing how water and energy are intertwined in Sandra Ely, Aamodt Settlement project both energy production and energy use. manager for Santa Fe County, gave a Mazria said that in the Southwest, for each detailed update on the mechanics of the kilowatt-hour of energy consumed, eight Aamodt Settlement Agreement, which gallons of fresh surface water are lost to Santa Fe County Representative Carl Trujillo asks a question at Sandra Ely’s Aamodt affects the water rights of the Nambé, evaporation. And in 2011, 53 percent of all Settlement Project presentation. Pojoaque, San Ildefonso and Tesuque CONTINUED ON PAGE 27 www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • July 2017 21 Memories made here what a night!

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ater speculators are threatening Catron County’s water. Will yours beW next? The Augustín Plains water mining case, the subject of litigation and fierce community resistance, could set a precedent affecting every New Mexican in the years to come. Where do big cities and profiteers look when they need more water? They look to smaller communities, those without economic clout or a political voice, those they view as easy targets. Catron County, however, is not going down without a fight. © Cole Merrick Almost 10 years ago, an organization The Augustín Plains called the Augustín Plains Ranch LLC proposed to drill 37 wells to a depth of 3,000 feet in order to pump 17 billion gallons of water every year from the Virtually all New Mexicans depend on Plains of San Augustín. Yes, that’s billion, groundwater for at least a portion of with a B. The citizens of Catron County their water supply. What happens when have held off these water predators for a large amount of groundwater is pumped almost a decade. But the water mining out of the ground? In a phenomenon application, twice denied by the State known as “the cone of depression,” as Engineer and the state courts, has been water continues to be pumped at an submitted once again. unsustainable rate, the underground flow moves toward the wells that are pumping. Groundwater has not First, nearby wells begin to dry up. Over time, the cone of depression widens, and thus far been moved on more and more wells go dry. In the case of the Augustín Plains, should this kind a massive scale. of water mining go forward and continue, The Augustín Plains basin currently eventually every ranch, every small town, provides water for families and ranchers, every subdivision, every home that relies with underground water reaching as far on the Plains aquifer, would find itself as the Gila River to the south and the without water. Even the Gila River would Río Grande to the east. Water pumped feel the loss of underground water. from the Augustín Plains, according Ray Pittman at home on the Augustín Plains st to the application, will be piped to In the 21 century, the distribution of Albuquerque. water will become perhaps the most critical—and hotly disputed—issue thousands of years ago as the Earth If you are an urban dweller, your water Why should this concern the people of that the world will face. In an arid changed and the southwestern part of our supply has also dried up, and you are no northern New Mexico? All New Mexico state like New Mexico, how will this continent became drier. In our present better off than the dwellers of the Plains. residents are aware that water is a scarce distribution be decided fairly? Is it wise day, there is not enough recharge of resource here in the Southwest. The or sustainable to move water from a rural the aquifer to replace 17 billion gallons This is a test case for sustainable water West was settled because the diversion to an urban area? of water being removed. At the rate of planning throughout the state. What of rivers and other surface waters made pumping proposed, eventually there will the case will really force us all to do is it possible to deliver water where it was Let us begin to answer that question by no longer be water in the aquifer. look at water and its distribution in a needed. Surface water could be moved asking another: What is the best method new way. No longer will it be possible from where it flowed naturally to where to assure sustainable water supplies As the “cone of depression” widens, to make decisions that are local or even it could be put to work on behalf of the throughout our state? Surely the answer the effect of the pumping also widens. regional. Looking at a sustainable water human population. Pipelines carrying is not to drain a rural area of its water to The water table drops, plants and trees supply will require a “big picture” of the water from the huge dams on the rivers supply urban areas. This scheme simply begin to disappear, sufficient grazing for availability of water and its highest and of the Southwest are a well-known assures that both the rural and the urban livestock no longer exists, the habitat best use everywhere in the state. example. Groundwater has not thus far area will not have a sufficient water for wild animals disappears, and— been moved on a massive scale. If this supply in the long run. highly concerning for all of us—wells So, here are some important questions application to mine water in the Plains that provide drinking water for human to ask: Is urban growth New Mexico’s is approved, it will set a precedent that In the specific case of the Augustín beings go dry. Or to put it another way, highest priority? Moving water out of could prove to be very, very important to Plains, water in the basin is “fossil water.” eventually life will no longer possible on rural areas to the city will encourage that CONTINUED ON PAGE 27 each and every resident of New Mexico. That means the water was left there the Plains. www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • July 2017 25 TECA TU Pawsworthy Pub Hour July 14th • 5–7pm • 2nd Friday of every month this summer • Canine/feline expert on hand to answer your questions • Libations by Santa Fe Bar and Grill • Treats for the 2-legged by Cheesemongers • Teca Tu Doggie Beer and treats for the 4-legged • 10% of sales during event donated to a different animal rescue organization each month

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26 Green Fire Times • July 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com Next Generation Water Summit Water Mining Case Update continued from page 21 continued from page 25 fresh surface water consumed in the U.S. utilizing offsets to potable water demand. growth, and the mantra that urban growth As a state, New Mexicans need to ask the right was used to cool fossil fuel and nuclear Dickenson explained that the process can is good will have to be questioned. This questions and expect them to be considered. power plants. allow growth without increasing water need to grow is based on the assumption Making big decisions about water should not consumption across a community or water that the economy will grow only if the be based on what an international corporation Mazria told the audience, “Every conference supply service area, and can help avoid population grows. Is that really true? wants to do to make a profit or on what a now in the United States is about how building moratoriums. A model ordinance politician wants to do to get elected. Making we can get to net-zero carbon. Net-zero has been developed that communities can How important to the state is the rural decisions about water, literally life-and- carbon is the stake in the ground. We need customize to meet their water offset needs. population and the agricultural products death decisions, must be based on scientific buildings certified before 2050 so no one Outreach materials are available online and these ranchers and farmers provide? information and on what is best for everyone.  can say it can’t be done.” He also believes are freeat www.net-blue.org Because rural populations tend to be that “all fossil fuels must be phased out by small, the political clout of agricultural Carol and Ray Pittman run a small ranching then if we want to have a high probability The 2017 conference schedule, with communities is less than that of urban operation in Datil, New Mexico. They are of keeping the planet.” Within the building presentation descriptions and settlements. Is this the correct basis for active in opposing the project to mine water sector, Mazria sees the plan for getting to presenter bios, can be accessed at www. making decisions about water? in the Plains of San Augustín. Email: net-zero carbon by 2050 being “1) high- nextgenerationwatersummit.com/ [email protected] performance new building design and major attendees/. Also, relevant articles on water renovations; 2) deep-efficiency renovations; use and planning in New Mexico can be and 3) an increase in renewable-energy use, found in the Green Fire Times’ May 2017 ABQ BERNALILLO COUNTY WATER so we zero-out emissions in cities in the U.S. issue, archived online and available for AUTHORITY’S $1 MILLION PARTNERSHIP and worldwide.” download at http://greenfiretimes.com/ WITH THE NATURE CONSERVANCY green-fire-times-2017/ Water managers from the Albuquerque Bernalillo Coun- Mazria also discussed the effects of climate ty Water Utility Authority have announced a $1-million, change in light of the environmental Videos of the summit’s sessions will be five-year partnership with The Nature Conservancy to pro- policies of the current administration, available on the Next Generation Water tect the San Juan-Chama watershed. With officials from noting that bottom-up solutions are Summit website and Facebook page. the nonprofit conservancy, Triple H Solar and PNM, they needed now more than ever. After the Plans are already underway for the 2018 gathered last month at the San Juan-Chama’s Drinking Wa- talk, a proclamation from Santa Fe Mayor conference, which will likely be earlier ter Treatment Plant to dedicate the utility’s new 1.5 MW, Gonzales was read, describing Mazria’s in the spring to make it easier for water Laura McCarthy 11-acre solar array. The $3.5 million facility is expected to of The Nature many contributions and acknowledging professionals to attend before work picks provide 10 percent of the plant’s power, saving ratepayers $6 Conservancy him as a Santa Fean of international up in the busy summer months. Glenn million over 25 years. stature, and thereby declaring June 5, 2017 Schiffbauer, executive director of the Santa as Ed Mazria Day. Fe Green Chamber of Commerce, said, Wildfires have become more frequent and severe. The partnership will support “We are looking forward to an even bigger  the Río Grande Water Fund’s efforts to restore 600,000 acres north of Albuquer- The second keynote speaker was Mary and better gathering next year.” que by thinning overcrowded trees and undergrowth at the headwaters at the Río Ann Dickenson, president of the Alliance Grande and Río Chama, restore streams, manage fire and heal burned lands. The for Water Efficiency, who spoke on that Nancy Grace has an M.A. in Community Río Grande Water Fund leverages public/private funding to increase thinning organization’s Net Blue Ordinance initiative. and Ecopsychology and a longstanding from Taos to Albuquerque to improve the health and safety of forests and pro- The initiative promotes water-neutral commitment to water and sustainable tect water for one million people in New Mexico. The Río Grande provides about development in water-scarce regions living. She volunteers for the Santa Fe three-quarters of the Albuquerque metro area’s water supply. facing challenges to growth, through Watershed Association. Earlier this year, the Taos Ski Valley Foundation donated $250,000 to The Nature From Bill Eckman’s talk: Conservancy for the Río Grande Water Fund. The foundation’s previous funding EASY WAYS TO SAVE WATER AT HOME made possible a tree-ring study, which confirmed that there were low-intensity fires every 11 to 43 years in Taos-area forests dating to the 1300s. • Take shorter showers • Put aerators on faucets • Install low-water-use toilets • Use a low-flow showerhead JUDGE RULES PORTION OF HEARING • Get an EnergyStar washing machine ON SANTOLINA DEVELOPMENT ‘UNFAIR’ • Use plants that require less water Last month, a district judge ruled that the Bernalillo County Commission did • Turn off faucets while washing dishes not grant community advocates a fair hearing when it approved the “Zone Map • Clean the driveway with a broom, not a hose • Mulch around plants to hold water in the soil Amendment” (from rural agricultural to planned communities) for the proposed • Turn off water when brushing teeth and soaping hands Santolina development. 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promising, clean, limitless and Washington, D.C., “Homeowners now affordable energy technology, have considerable control over their rejected years ago by some electrical consumption. If they have their Ascientists, is now receiving increasing own LENR power generator, they will also reconsideration. Could this be an answer have much control over their own electrical to our climate problems and dependence generation.” Dr. Nagel also says, “Roughly on the Middle East? one billion people on Earth do not have good drinking water. The possibility of How was this potential new energy source being able to produce drinkable water from discovered? Twenty-eight years ago, two dirty rivers and seas by using heat from respected scientists at the University of LENR would be momentous.” Utah, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, caused a stir in the scientific However, before it can be commercialized, community by claiming that they had the research required to fully understand succeeded in generating “cold fusion” how LENR functions must continue. The nuclear reactions in a laboratory. The process is complex. In fact, it is so difficult to Cross section of an International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor process was called cold fusion because understand that many scientists have claimed (Source: ITER organization) it operated at temperatures lower than the process is impossible. LENR is still very conventional “hot fusion.” Cold fusion controversial in the scientific community. gradually being revealed. LENR applies to Technology lab in White Rock, New Mexico. is known today as Low Energy Nuclear fusion using all isotopes of hydrogen as well Reactions (LENR). In 2009, the Defense Intelligence Agency as transmutation reactions, during which Japan, China, Italy and France are among released an analysis of LENR titled various numbers of hydrogen nuclei are added eight nations currently researching LENR. There are multiple reasons why some of the Technology Forecast: Worldwide Research on to a larger nucleus. This complex process has Several other governments (United international scientific community, world Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions Increasing made it difficult for some scientists to accept States not included) and international governments and corporations are once and Gaining Acceptance. The report the claim and for the mechanism to be corporations are also attempting to make again giving LENR another look. LENR stated, “Hot fusion researchers do not explained. The first step in causing LENR it possible to market this technology. With has no greenhouse hydrocarbon emissions, believe fusion can occur at near-room requires a material, such as palladium, to form the U.S. pulling out of the Paris Climate there is no dangerous radiation during the temperatures based on the Coulomb barrier a special condition within the solid structure. Agreement, now is the time for citizens’ operational process, and no radioactive by- that repels like nuclear When deuterium is voices to encourage state representatives products are left after energy production. charges, and have Many scientists have reacted with the material to support LENR research. This makes it cleaner than many current dismissed much of the at modest temperatures, energy sources. “cold fusion” research claimed the process unexpected heat energy To learn more about LENR, visit conducted since 1989. is produced. This heat LENR-CANR.org, where there is LENR has the potential of generating As a result, such is impossible. can be used to make extensive published information. thermal energy and electrical power. research has received limited funding and steam that can be converted into electrical A YouTube video of a 60 Minutes Eventually, LENR generators could support over the past twenty years.” energy by conventional methods. Neither report called Cold Fusion Hot Again is be used in residential and commercial radiation nor radioactive by-products are quite informative. The Anthropocene buildings. With a localized electrical power That hasn’t stopped two respected former made. Helium gas is the main nuclear Institute and Atomic Energy of Canada source at hand, how much longer would Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) product. Once the material has been suitably Limited (AECL) have provided recent we have to rely on the grid? According scientists, nuclear chemist Dr. Edmund activated, energy can be made as long as water reviews of the subject. Details can also to Dr. David Nagel, a research professor Storms and physicist Dr. Tom Claytor, is available. The challenge is to discover how be found in several respected peer- from George Washington University in from continuing their own research. the material needs to be activated. Although reviewed journals. this process happens on occasion, it does not Dr. Storms’ laboratory, Kiva Labs, is in Santa have the reliability required of a commercial An extraordinary scientist and visionary, Fe. He obtained a Ph.D. in radiochemistry product. The phenomenon is clearly real and Nikola Tesla, stated almost 100 years ago, from Washington University (St. Louis) now only needs to be further explored to “Electric power is everywhere present in and retired from LANL after 34 years. His unlock its benefits.” unlimited quantities and can drive the work there involved basic research in high- world’s machinery without the need of coal, temperature chemistry as applied to materials In 1989, Dr. Tom Claytor, who obtained a oil, gas or any other of the common fuels!” used in nuclear power and propulsion Ph.D. in solid-state physics from Purdue reactors, including studies of the cold fusion University and a B.S. in physics from In this time of enormous population effect. Several hundred publications by Dr. Oklahoma State University, was one of the growth, toxic waters that humans and Storms are available. In 1993, he was invited first to claim that LENR could be triggered animals are drinking, respiratory and health to testify before a congressional committee outside an electrochemical cell. His expertise issues from polluted environments, it is my about the cold fusion effect. He truly is in collaborating with investigators to hope that we will not wait another 100 believes that this energy source could change improve hydrogen isotope and neutron years for an emerging energy technology  humankind’s way of life. detection from solid gas-loaded LENR cells. such as LENR to be brought to fruition. While at Argonne National Labs and LANL Dr. Storms says, “Thanks to 27 years of study he received five patents. Today Dr. Claytor is Virginia Cervantes is an environmental Dr. Edmund Storms in over 12 countries, resulting in over 2,000 a guest scientist at LANL and also continues researcher who lives in Albuquerque, published papers, the clues to this success are his research on LENR at his High Mesa New Mexico. www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • July 2017 29 It can be this easy Green Fire Times is available at to ﬁx computers? many locations in the metropolitan Albuquerque / Río Rancho area! 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METHANE EMISSION RULES INTERCEPTED Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan, Tshoki Zangmo; Sami people The Trump administration has moved quickly to suspend, and perhaps rescind, two from Norway; and Taos Pueblo’s Robert Mirabal. Notable businesspeople, Obama–era rules intended to cut methane emissions from oil and gas production. environmentalists and activists from New Mexico (TBA) will also tell their story. The Environmental Protection Agency wants to delay for at least two years a rule that would require companies to monitor and reduce leaks. The rule was one of the The 3-day conference at the James A. Little Theater (NM School for the Deaf ) will regulations intended to help the U.S. meet its commitment to the Paris Climate include music, art and ceremony. It is sponsored by Local Futures/International accord. President Trump has announced that he is withdrawing the U.S. from that Society for Ecology, a California-based nonprofit organization that has organized agreement. nine such conferences around the world so far. The local sponsor is Reconnect-Today (www.reconnect-today.org). Tickets ($150/advance; some discounts available) go on Claiming the rule would harm energy development, jobs and revenue in states sale July 10. For more information, visit www.localfutures.org/ such as New Mexico, the Interior Department has indefinitely postponed another regulation that would have reduced the methane released into the atmosphere from NORTHERN NEW MEXICO COLLEGE AWARDS leaks, venting and flaring on federal lands. The industry claims it is already reducing MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATE HONORARY DEGREE emissions through technological innovation. At its graduation ceremony in June, A 2,500-square-mile cloud of methane, identified as a major contributor to global Northern New Mexico warming, hangs over the Four Corners region. Other gases, such as benzene, that College awarded come from the wells, form smog and are linked to cancer, asthma and other effects. longtime mental health The main sources, scientists have recently reconfirmed, are leaks from 25,000 active advocate and former and abandoned wells and 10,000 miles of pipelines that run across the San Juan faculty member Gilberto Basin. New Mexico has no state regulation. Oil and gas production is soon to increase Romero with an honorary significantly in the Permian Basin of southern New Mexico and west Texas. Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities, Last month, environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit challenging the EPA’s stay in recognition of Gilberto Romero accepts his degree at NNMC’s commence- of the methane rule. his services to the ment as (l-r) U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján, NNMC President Rick communities of northern Bailey and NNMC Provost Dr. Ivan López Hutado listen. ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS CONFERENCE New Mexico. OCTOBER 12–14 IN SANTA FE Reconnecting to Our Local Future — Celebrating Diversity and Community Romero, who was born and raised in Santa Fe, is renowned for his nearly five decades The Economics of Happiness Conference will explore and explain how humans can of tireless work and activism for underprivileged and underrepresented populations shift direction—environmentally, economically and spiritually—from a globalized struggling with mental illness, substance abuse and domestic violence. He was system of exploitation, inequality and environmental degradation toward local commended for having demonstrated an unparalleled knowledge of working in cultures and economies that support renewal, resilience and human and planetary resource-deprived rural settings. well-being. The conference will identify key strategic shifts and cultivate collaboration among individuals, groups and movements toward economic localization. Romero has previously received the National Association of Social Workers’ Public Citizen of the Year award; the Latino Behavioral Health Institute’s Honor Roll Themes to be discussed include local food, local governance, democratic systems, award, which is given to community members who exemplify the ideals of César law- and policy-making, local businesses, local finance and banking, environmental E. Chávez and Dolores Huerta; and the New Mexico governor’s recognition for and climate justice, health and wellness, cultural diversity and equality, biodiversity Achievement in Aging. and connecting to nature, the Commons and the New Economy Movement. By presenting grassroots localization strategies, the conference’s organizers hope to Romero describes himself as “a practitioner of human kindness.” An NNMC press facilitate learning, increased collaboration and hands-on action in northern New release says he exemplifies a nonviolent philosophy in the struggle against injustice Mexico, as well as policy-level initiatives. and the fight for peace and dignity in his community.

Helena Norberg-Hodge, a pioneer of the worldwide localization movement and REPORT ON OUT-OF-STATE SPENDING founder of Local Futures, will be one of the keynote speakers. Other confirmed FOR FOOD SERVICES RELEASED presenters include Native American economist Winona LaDuke; Lakota chief, New Mexico State Auditor Tim Keller recently released a report on state and Arvol Looking Horse; local governmental food contracting which finds that the food industry has a high author/physician proportion of out-of-state contracting compared to other industries. Agencies such Larry Dossey; local as school districts and correctional facilities had over $132 million in large food economy pioneer Judy contracts in the last two years. Only 12 percent of those dollars went directly to New Wicks; author Charles Mexico-based vendors. Eisenstein; author Craig Childs; former “When governments purchase from New Mexico businesses, money flows directly into Bristol (England) the local economy, helping build tax revenue, create jobs and invest in the community,” mayor and architect Keller stated. “When we spend hundreds of millions of tax dollars on out-of-state George Ferguson; food contracts, even small steps matter.” He added, “Even just purchasing coffee and Helena Norberg-Hodge Winona LaDuke (pictured with representative of the baked goods locally would create 100 permanent jobs, more than the Facebook plant.” Louie Hena of Tesuque Pueblo) The report found that: • Shifting just one-half of 1 percent of school district food contracting to local vendors would mean an increase of over $4 million dollars back into the local economy. • Sustained support for innovative practices by local growers such as “food hubs” and pilot programs by government agencies can overcome the challenges that have made it difficult for local vendors to compete for government contracts.

In April, the State Auditor released a report showing that the information technology (IT) industry had the highest percentage (81 percent) of large state and local Dr. Larry Dossey Judy Wicks Robert Mirabal (Taos Pueblo) government contracts awarded to out-of-state firms over a 2-year period. www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • July 2017 37 WHAT'S GOING ON! Events / Announcements $20/$25/$100. Students/Seniors: $10/$15. Artsantafe.com National Hispanic Cultural Center data and best practices. Professional partners provide expertise and services. ALBUQUERQUE 1701 4th St. SW JULY 14, 5 PM APPLICATION JULY 8, 10 AM–12 PM Celebration of food, art and culture on the Public partners support the initiative as it overlaps with their own missions. Info: DEADLINE ABQ CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY Río Grande. Entertainment, kids’ activities, demonstrations. Presented by Bernalillo [email protected] COLLABORATIVE ARTS Edna Fergusson Library County and the NHCC. $5/Ages 5 and younger MARKETING PROGRAM 3700 San Mateo NE free. www.nhccnm.org/event/bernalillo- Funding offered for citywide, multi-partner Monthly meeting of group working for county-nhcc-present-bosque-chile-festival/ SANTA FE arts events advertising and promotion of climate change solutions that bridge the JULY 4–8 tourist-related attractions, facilities and partisan divide. [email protected], SEPTEMBER 22–23 HANDS FOR LAND COMMUNITY events, specifically related to nonprofit art and https://citizensclimatelobby.org/chapters/ performing arts activities in SF taking place NM_Albuquerque/ GLOBALQUERQUE ART WORKSHOP Make art with local artists at two free Oct. 2017 to June 30, 2018. 505.955.6707, NHCC, 1701 4th St. SW interactive workshops. 7/4, 3–6 pm at www.santafenm.gov/funding_programs JULY 9, 9–11 AM Annual celebration of world music & culture. 20 performances by 17 acts from 5 continents Mercado del Sur, 6009 Jaguar Dr.; 7/5, SEASONS OF GROWTH on 3 stages. Tickets: 505.724.4771, www. 3–6 pm at SF Farmers’ Market, 1607 Paseo JULY 14–16 GARDENING CLASS globalquerque.org/tickets.html de Peralta. Artwork will be auctioned at 2017 INTERNATIONAL Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Community Celebration fundraiser on 7/8, 11 FOLK ART MARKET 2401 12th NW THROUGH SEPTEMBER am–2 pm at the Railyard Community Room. useum ill Resilience Garden session checking each plant M H WE ARE OF THIS PLACE Proceeds benefit Earth Care Community More than 150 master artists from 54 species’ health. $5 suggested donation. 11 Garden. Sponsored by Creative Activist countries. The festival celebrates and preserves am–12 pm: volunteer work. 505.843.7270, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Network. http://earthcare.nationbuilder.com living folk art traditions and supports the 2401 12th St. NW Reservations: [email protected] The Pueblo Story. A historical overview and work of artists serving as entrepreneurs and contemporary artworks. Through July 2018: JULY 5–AUGUST 25 catalysts for social change. 6/13, 6–8:45 JULY 13, 6:30–9 PM Long Ago: Pueblo People & Our Modern SANTA FE BANDSTAND pm: Artist procession on the SF Plaza. 505.992.7600, [email protected], VOICES OF THE BARRIO: ABQ SLAM TEAM Environment, exploring cutting-edge anta e laza S F P www.folkartalliance.org l hante asa de ultura sustainability issues. Multimedia exhibit links Live performances. Free. Santafebandstand.org/ E C : C C elders’ wisdom to modern relationship with 804 Park Ave. SW Open mic music and poetry rooted in the the Earth. Weekend native dances. Open JULY 7, 12–5 PM; JULY 8, 9 AM–2 PM JULY 15, 8 AM–5 PM uniqueness of NM culture and centered on daily. $8.40/$6.40/$5.40; 505.843.7270, WELL WATER TESTING ADVANCING TRIBAL indianpueblo.org HEALTHCARE CONFERENCE community activism and social justice. The Pojoaque Valley High School Gym ABQ Slam Team is going to the nationals 1574 NM-502 Buffalo Thunder Resort in Denver. https://www.facebook.com/ THROUGH NOV. 5 SF County NMED and NMDOH are offering Designed to assist tribes and IHS in providing events/1299394766848707/ OUTSTANDING IN HIS FIELD: free water tests for Pojoaque Basin residents local training pertinent to their facilities and SAN YSIDRO in SF County with private wells serving communities. $400. [email protected], JULY 19, 10 AM–2 PM homes not connected to a public water utility. http://buytickets.at/athc/77693 NHCC Art Museum, 1701 4th St. SW JOB FAIR Contemporary and traditional depictions 505.986.2426, http://nmtracking.org/water of the patron saint of farmers & gardeners. JULY 16, 4–6 PM Harrison Middle School CHARLES CARILLO sleta More than 65 artists. $6/$5/16 & under free. JULY 8, 10 AM–12 PM 3912 I SW Nationalhispaniccenter.org 5th annual. Organized by Sen. SF CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY Collected Works Books ichael adilla 202 Galisteo St. M P . 505.977.6247 THROUGH NOV. 11 LaFarge Library, 1730 Llano St. Artist reception and book signing with the Monthly meeting of group working for climate award-winning santero. JULY 19–23 LONG ENVIRONMENTALISM change solutions that bridge the partisan NM SENIOR OLYMPICS IN THE NEAR NORTH divide. https://citizensclimatelobby.org/ JULY 18, 24, 12:10–4:45 PM 2017 State Senior Olympic Summer Games. UNM Art Museum, 1 University of N M chapters/NM_Santa_fe/ 575.622.9244, [email protected], A collection of photos and writings by UNM BEHIND ADOBE WALLS www.nmseniorolympics.org professor Subhankar Banerjee. Closed Sundays JULY 8, 6–8 PM HOME & GARDEN TOURS and Mondays. Unmartmuseum.org EARTH CARE SUMMER Local Residences Bus departs from Hotel SF. $75. 800.283.0122, JULY 22, 5:30–9 PM CELEBRATION NM FILM FOUNDATION SUMMER FIRST SUNDAYS [email protected] ona del ol uilding across from SOIREE NM MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Z S B Southside Library JULY 19–23 I-25 Studios, 9201 Pan American Fwy. NE 1801 Mountain Road Community Gathering. Music, fun and BBQ. Annual event. Food, fun, art auction. Tickets: Museum admission is free to NM residents on Celebration Youth Leaders and installation WELLNESS IN A CULTURE $60/$100 for 2/$25 students. www. the first Sunday of every month. 505.841.2800 of Four Season mural. 505.983.6896, info@ OF ADDICTION nmfilmfoundation.org/2017-summer- earthcare.org, RSVP: www.facebook. New Earth Institute of soiree-fundraiser/ Info/sponsorships: dirk@ EVERY FRI, SAT, 7–9 PM AND SUN 1–3 PM com/events/1027033390766290/?active_ Southwestern College nmfilmfoundation.org SUMMERTIME IN OLD TOWN tab=about 36th annual Transformation and Healing CONCERTS Conference. 505.471.5756, conference@swc. AUG. 3, 8:30 AM–7 PM edu, www.swc.edu ABQ Old Town, 303 Romero St. NW JULY 9, 1–5 PM DIPLOMACY BEGINS HERE SUMMIT 3HO SIKHS ABQ Convention Center and Hyatt Regency SATURDAYS, 1 PM JULY 19–AUG. 13 Santa Fe Plaza Downtown WEEKLY DOCENT-LED TOURS “45 Years of Healthy, Happy, Holy Living in the HIPCO SUMMER SERIES Summit will focus on the creative economy, ational ispanic ultural enter Land of Enchantment.” Yoga, live music, Hipco Santa Fe, 100 S. Polo Dr. social entrepreneurship and indigenous N H C C children’s and folk-dance performance, Equestrian shows and competitions, art 1701 4th St. SW entrepreneurship and explore the impact of Tours of different exhibits and themes in and interactive class, plus family-friendly exhibitions. www.hipicosantafe.com innovation, culture and international relations the Art Museum. $2-$3, free with museum activities. Free. on economic development. Cohosted by admission. 505.246.2261, nhccnm.org JULY 21, 7:30 PM Global Ties ABQ and the Santa Fe Council for JULY 10–21 PLATINUM MUSIC AWARDS International Relations in association with PAID AMERICORPS TERMS READING IS MAGIC The Lensic the State Department. 505.888.1687, www. Honoring Arlen Asher, Fernando Cellicion, Young women and men ages 18–25 sought SF School for the Arts globaltiesabq.org for seasonal, full-time conservation projects A free literacy camp for rising 2nd to 4th graders Bill and Bonnie Hearne, Al Hurricane, Dale in Albuquerque-area wilderness starting in referred by their SF Public School teachers. Free. Kempter and Catherine Oppenheimer. THROUGH AUG. 13 September. 575.751.1420, www.youthcorps.org 505.920.9709, [email protected] $25–$100. 505.988.1234, ticketssantafe.org BIRDS OF A FEATHER WOVEN TOGETHER ABQ 2030 DISTRICT JULY 13–16 JULY 23, 5 PM Open Space Visitor Center A voluntary collaboration of commercial ART SANTA FE MESA PRIETA PETROGLYPH 6500 Coors Blvd. NE property tenants, building managers, property PROJECT FUNDRAISER Tapestry artists of Las Areñas. Also Scribes 8 owners and developers; real estate, energy, SF Convention Center Juried contemporary art from around the Scottish Rite Center exhibits: Trees: 505.897.8831, www.cabq.gov/ and building sector professionals, lenders, world, special events and entertainment. Premiere of Love Letter to Frida by Nacha openspace utility companies; and public stakeholders Exhibitors include galleries, art publishers and Mendez, with cello and violins. Hors such as government agencies, nonprofits, studio artists from the SF area, across the U.S. d’oeuvres, silent auction. $35 adv./$40 AUG. 19, 10 AM–7 PM community groups and grassroots organizers. and around the world. 7/13 preview party: 5–9 at the door. 505.852.1351, admin@ BOSQUE CHILE FESTIVAL Property partners share anonymous utility pm. 7/14–15, 11 am–8 pm. 7/16, 11 am–5 pm. mesaprietapetroglyphs.org

38 Green Fire Times • July 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com JULY 24–26 Change with Bold Solutions with Mariel Nanasi, Pueblos may pay on a donation basis. JULY 31 DEADLINE INTEGRATING SPIRITUALITY, exec. dir. of New Energy Economy. 7/30: 914.400.7558, www.nativerootshealing.com NM FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE MINDFULNESS & COMPASSION IN Creativity for Peace director Dottie Indyke with Annual event features a vast range of creative Israeli and Palestinian young women summer MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION JULY 7–9 filmmaking from New Mexicans around the program students. Hosts: Alan Webber and Bill TAOS PUEBLO POWWOW state. No charge to enter. Showcase is free Eldorado Hotel Dupuy. Free. www.journeysantafe.com 28th SF Conference. Focus on trauma $15/day, $20 2-day pass/$25 3-day pass. and open to the public. A panel of local film treatment, mindfulness and psychotherapy, Children 10 & under free. Cash only. 7/7–8, 10 professionals judge the projects in various spirituality and recovery, brain science and MON.–SAT. am–10 pm; 7/9, 10 am–6 pm. 888.285.6344, categories. 505.476.5671, belle.allen@nmfilm. addictions, experiential and expressive POEH CULTURAL taospueblopowwow.com com, nmfilm.com therapies. Presented by U.S. Journal Training, CENTER & MUSEUM JULY 8–9 AUG. 5, ALL DAY Inc. and the Institute for Integral Development. 78 Cities of Gold Rd BOTANICAL & CULINARY MEDICINE NORTHERN RIO GRANDE www.usjt.com Pueblo of Pojoaque In T’owa Vi Sae’we: The People’s Pottery. IN INTEGRATIVE PRACTICE NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA Tewa Pottery from the Smithsonian National JULY 29–30, 8 AM–5 PM Sagebrush Inn & Suites CELEBRATION Museum of the American Indian. Nah Symposium, workshops, cooking demos on TRADITIONAL SPANISH MARKET Casa Rosada (former Oñate Center), Poeh Meng: 1,600-sq.-ft. core installation herbs and spices in health and medicine. Santa Fe Plaza 848 State Rd. 68, Alcalde, NM Over 250 Spanish colonial artists. highlighting the works of Pueblo artists and Presented by UNM School of Medicine. Grand opening. A day of events, music, dance, Woodcarving, tinwork, colcha, hide painting, Pueblo history. Poehcenter.org 505.272.3942, [email protected] art, education and food. 505.852.0030, www. retablos, straw applique, furniture and RioGrandeNHA.org furnishings, weaving, jewelry filigree, pottery TUES.–SAT. JULY 15, 10 AM–5 PM and ironwork. 7/26, 5:30 pm artists reception EL MUSEO CULTURAL DE SANTA FE DAY TRIP TO LAMA MOUNTAIN FIRST MONDAYS EACH MONTH, at Elks Lodge. Tickets: $25 adv. Sfhccnm. 555 Cam. de la Familia Help celebrate the 50th anniversary of Lama 3–5 PM org. 7/28 Preview at El Museo Cultural at the Rotating exhibits, community programs and Foundation, a thriving spiritual community/ SUSTAINABLE GALLUP BOARD Railyard. spanishcolonial.org performances designed to preserve Hispanic commune north of Taos. $35 for Friends of Octavia Fellin Library, Gallup, NM culture. Elmuseocultural.org History members; $45 non-members. Round The City of Gallup’s Sustainable Gallup Board JULY 29–30, 8 AM–5 PM trip from Santa Fe. Reservations: 505.476.5101 welcomes community members concerned CONTEMPORARY HISPANIC MARKET TUES., SAT., 7 AM-1 PM; WEDS., 3–7 PM about conservation, energy, water, recycling THROUGH SEPT. 29 incoln venue SF FARMERS’ MARKET and other environmental issues. 505.722.0039. L A EARTH BAG BUILDING WORKSHOP More than 130 artists’ booths. 1607 Paseo de Peralta (& Guadalupe) Contemporaryhispanicmarketinc.com TUES., 3–6 PM: PLAZA CONTENTA Learn to build a sustainable, affordable, MON., WED., FRI., SAT., 10 AM–4 PM off-grid solar home. 575.770.0085, 6009 Jaguar Dr. PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL JULY 31–AUG. 4 Northern NM farmers & ranchers offer fresh earthandsunsustainablebuilders.com EDUCATION CENTER SPIRULINA/AQUAPONICS greenhouse tomatoes, greens, root veggies, cheese, teas, herbs, spices, honey, baked THIRD TUES. MONTHLY, 5:30 & 7:30 PM 2600 Canyon Rd., Los Alamos, NM SFCC, 6401 Richard’s Ave. Nature center and outdoor education Hands-on artisan spirulina algae farming goods, body care products and much more. TAOS ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORK programs. Exhibits of flora and fauna of the and intro to aquaponics course. $1,600 santafefarmersmarket.com KTAOS Pajarito Plateau; herbarium, live amphibians, includes training, materials and meals. nic@ Networking, presentations, discussion and butterfly and xeric gardens. 505.662.0460, apogeespirulina.com, www.apogeespirulina. WEDS., 6–8 PM professional services. Free. 505.776.7903, www.losalamosnature.org com/workshop-july-31-aug-4/ ST. JOHN’S MUSIC ON THE HILL www.taosten.org St. John’s College Athletic Field TUESDAYS, 6–8 PM AUG. 4–6 Free family-friendly concert series. Picnic and FAMILY NIGHT QIGONG AND CONSCIOUS enjoy live music. HERE & THERE PEEC, Los Alamos, NM AGING CONFERENCE JULY 15, 7 AM–3 PM The second Tuesday of every month. Games, WEDS.–SUN. URANIUM TAILINGS SPILL activities experiments or crafts at the Nature Wisdom Healing Qigong Center SANTA FE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM COMMEMORATION Center. 505.662.0460, www.losalamosnature.org Galisteo, NM Presenters include Dr. Judith Orloff, Father 1050 Old Pecos Trail East Church Rock, NM Richard Rohr, Joan Borysenko, Andrew Harvey, Interactive exhibits and activities. Red Water Pond Road community on 3RD TUES., 7 PM Dr. Gregory Shushan, Master Mingtong Gu, 505.989.8359, Santafechildrensmuseum.org the Navajo Nation is hosting its annual FOUR SEASONS GARDENING commemoration of the 1979 uranium tailings George and Sedena Cappannelli, Nathan CLASSES Crane and others. 505.470.6295, sedena@ SAT., 8 AM–4 PM spill, the largest in the U.S. 12 miles north Sabana Grande Rec Center, 4110 agenation.com, www.ChiCenter.com RANDALL DAVEY AUDUBON CENTER of Red Rock State Park on State Hwy. 566. 505.577.8438, www.swuraniumimpacts.org Sabana Grande Ave. SE, Río Rancho, NM 1800 Upper Canyon Rd. http://sandovalmastergardeners.org THROUGH FEB. 11, 2018 Striking landscapes and wildlife. Bird walks, JULY 22, 11 AM–2 PM VOICES OF COUNTERCULTURE hikes, tours of the Randall Davey home. WEDS., 10 AM LOS AMIGOS DEL VALLES CALDERA IN THE SOUTHWEST 505.983.4609, http://nm.audubon.org/ GREEN HOUR HIKES landingcenter-chapters/visiting-randall-davey- 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY NM History Museum, SF Plaza Los Alamos Nature Center, Los Exhibit spans the 1960s and 70s exploring the audubon-center-sanctuary Valle Caldera National Preserve, Alamos, NM influx of young people to NM and the collision NM 4, main entrance Kid-centered hikes. Free. Losalamosnature.org of cultures. Archival footage, oral histories, DAILY Celebration with music, refreshments, art demos, wildlife from the NM Wildlife Center, photography, ephemera and artifacts. Curated SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN FIRST 3 WEDS. EA. MONTH, 6–7 PM by Jack Loeffler and Meredith Davidson. bookstore ribbon-cutting at noon. http:// 715 Cam. Lejo, Museum Hill SOLAR 101 CLASSES http://nmhistorymuseum.org/calendar.php? Living museum on 14 acres. Ojos y Manos, losamigosdevallescaldera.org Orchard Gardens, The Courtyard Gardens and 113 E. Logan Ave., Gallup, NM THROUGH JULY 23 Free classes about all things related to SUNDAYS, 10 AM-4 PM the Arroyo Trails. Santafebotanicalgarden.org off-grid solar systems. No pre-registration RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET WILD RIVERS PLEIN AIR PAINT-OUT necessary. 505.728.9246, gallupsolar@gmail. SUSTAINABLE GROWTH MANAGEMENT uesta area Farmers’ Market Pavilion Q , NM com,Gallupsolar.org PLAN FOR SANTA FE COUNTY Plein Air artists’ interpretations of the Questa, 1607 Paseo de Peralta San Cristobal, Lama, El Rito/Latir. Competition Local artists, textiles, jewelry, Hard copies $70, CDs $2. Contact Melissa BASIC LITERACY TUTOR TRAINING ceramics, live music. 505.983.4098, Holmes, 505.995.2717 or msholmes@ divisions: Landscape, Architecture, Youth (18 and younger). Info: wildriverpleinair@gmail. Española area [email protected], santafecounty.org. The SGMP is also available After training by the NM Coalition for Literacy, artmarketsantafe.com on the county website: www.santafecounty. com, Registration: www.wildriverspleinair. com. Ocho Gallery, 8 Hwy. 38, Questa, NM. volunteer tutors are matched with an adult org/growth_management/sgmp and can be student. 505.747.6162, [email protected], www. SUNDAYS, 11 AM reviewed at SF Public libraries and the County raalp.org/become-a-tutor.html JOURNEY SANTA FE Administrative Building, 102 Grant Ave. JULY 25, AUG. 1 DEADLINES SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED AG CONVERSATIONS SPIRIT OF THE BUTTERFLY PRODUCERS AND RURAL BUSINESS ñ Collected Works Books TAOS OWNERS GRANTS 923 E. Fairview Land, Espa ola, NM 202 Galisteo St. Women’s support group organized by 7/2: Janie Chodash on her book Wild Lives– JULY 2, 9, 16, 1–5 PM USDA program to help small businesses retain Tewa Women United. Info/RSVP: Beverly, Leading Conservationists on the Animals and INDIGENOUS HERBALISM AND and create jobs. Eligible grant recipients include 505.795.8117 Planet They Love. With the NM Wilderness HEALING SERIES cooperatives and cooperative development centers that serve socially disadvantaged Alliance. 7/9: A Tale of Two Cities: Inequity Arroyo Seco, NM WILDLIFE WEST NATURE PARK and Segregation in SF and What You Can Final 3 of 7 classes taught by author/healer groups. Supports technical assistance. 7/25: Electronic application deadline (grants.gov); 87 N. Frontage Rd., Edgewood, NM Do About It with Paul Gibson of Retake Our Howard Badhand (Lakota), hierbera/food 122-acre park just east of Albuquerque. Democracy and Tomas Rivera of Chainbreaker scientist Margaret Garcia, curanderas Tonita 8/1: Paper application deadline. 505.761.4952, [email protected] Interactive trail focuses on rescued, non- Collective. 7/16: A Look Behind the Scenes of Gonzales and Rita Navarrate Perez, and releasable, native New Mexican wildlife and the SF Intl. Folk Art Market with CEO Jeff Snell farmer/herbalist Emigdio Ballon (Quechua). native plants. http://wildlifewest.org/wwblog/ and Kim Meredith, publisher of Stanford Social $350 for the full series. Natives from local Innovation Review. 7/23: Addressing Climate www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • July 2017 39 Green Fire Times • July 2017 www.GreenFireTimes.com