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4 Green Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com Vol. 8, No. 3 • March 2016 Issue No. 83 Publisher Green Fire Publishing, LLC Skip Whitson News & Views from the Sustainable Southwest Associate Publisher Barbara E. Brown Winner of the Sustainable Santa Fe Award for Outstanding Educational Project Editor-in-chief Contents Seth Roffman The Magic of Simple Vernacular Building in the Context of New Mexico’s Art Director Long History of Building – Alejandro López ...... 7 Anna C. Hansen, Dakini Design Keeping Our Heritage – The Francisca Hinojos House – Seth Roffman . . . . . 9 Copy Editors Stephen Klinger, Susan Clair Belmont del Norte: A Solar Straw Bale House ...... 11. Webmaster: Karen Shepherd Radiant New Mexico. – Bob Dunsmore ...... 12 . Contributing Writers Solar Newsbites ...... 13. Bineshi Albert, Rachel Conn, Bob Dunsmore, Sarah Ghiorse, Jaida Grey New School Combines Sustainability, Closing the Achievement Gap and Free College Eagle, Fatima van Hattum, Japa K. Khalsa, Nichoe Lichen, Alejandro López, Serina for Santa Fe Public School Students – Dana Richards ...... 16 . Padgett, Kelly Phillips, Dana Richards, Seth Roffman Go Green and Get Outside – .Kelly Phillips ...... 18 .

Contributing Photographers Love Where We Live – The Youth Ambassadors Program and Bob Dunsmore, William Green, Anna C. ommunity earning etwork erina adgett Hansen, Japa K. Khalsa, Alejandro López, C L N – S P ...... 18. Elliott McDowell, Jennifer Case Nevarez, Op-Ed: Living Feminism: Leading with our Values – Seth Roffman Sarah Ghiorse and Fatima van Hattum ...... 20. PUBLISHER’S ASSISTANT Cisco Whitson-Brown Celebration of the Life and Art of Lloyd Kiva New ...... 23 . Advertising Sales Indigenous Climate Justice at the Institute of American Indian Arts John M. Nye 505.699.3492 [email protected] – Bineshi Albert and Jaida Grey Eagle ...... 24 . Skip Whitson 505.471.5177 The Longest Walk 2016 ...... 25 . [email protected] Protecting New Mexico’s Wetland Gems – Rachel Conn ...... 27 . Anna C. Hansen 505.982.0155 [email protected] Healing Allergies from the Inside Out – Japa K . Khalsa ...... 29 . Lisa Powers, 505.629.2655 Op-Ed: A Public Bank for Santa Fe – Nichoe Lichen ...... 31. [email protected] Newsbites...... 32, 37 Gay Rathman, 505.670.4432 [email protected] What’s Going On ...... 38 . Distribution Linda Ballard, Barbara Brown, Susan Clair, Co- op Dist. Services, Nick García, Leo Knight, Niki Nicholson Andy Otterstrom (Creative Couriers), PMI, Daniel Rapatz, Tony Rapatz, Wuilmer Rivera, Andrew Tafoya, Skip Whitson, John Woodie Circulation: 30,000 copies Printed locally with 100% soy ink on 100% recycled, chlorine-free paper Green Fire Times c/o The Sun Companies P.O. Box 5588, SF, NM 87502-5588 505.471.5177 • [email protected] © 2016 Green Fire Publishing, LLC Green Fire Times provides useful information for community members, business people, students and visitors—anyone interested in discovering the wealth of opportunities and resources in the Southwest. In support of a more sustainable planet, topics covered range from green businesses, jobs, products, services, entrepreneurship, investing, design, building and energy—to native perspectives on history, arts & culture, ecotourism, education, sustainable agriculture, regional cuisine, water issues and the healing arts. To

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6 Green Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com Adobe-domed well-house, Santa Cruz; Latticed adobe wall by Anselmo Jaramillo, Chimayó; Two views of the Turtle Amphitheater built by the National Indian Youth Leadership Project of Gallup, at the Sacred Mountain campsite near Mt. Taylor

The Magic of Simple Vernacular Building in the Context of New Mexico’s Long History of Building Article and photos by Alejandro López

rchitecture is often referred mimic the sky. We have also built lesser for an all-encompassing spiritual and The Nakai Diné, or Españoles to as the “Queen of the Arts” but equally intriguing forms such as religious life. Here, the people were and Mexicanos, brought to this land from becauseA the buildings and the spaces the hórreos, or elevated, chapel-like are in communion with the creative central México and distant Spain the it encompasses accommodate all granaries of Asturias, Spain; thatched energies of the Earth—the source of above-ground, monumental Christian other arts: music, theater, oratory, cottages of Ireland; temascales, or sweat all of life’s beginnings—including their churches that thrust upward toward dance, sculpture, painting, ritual and lodges of México; Buddhist stupas of own emergence through successive the skies of Middle Eastern-derived ceremony. It can safely be said that Asia; yurts of Mongolia; and the tipis underworlds. faiths. Cruciform in shape and notably the ideals of a society are embodied of North America. spacious, they could accommodate an The Diné of Arizona and New in what and how a society chooses entire village for religious functions Mexico, on the other hand, chose to to build—with what materials and to and the celebration of sacraments. In Territorial times, build simple, isolated, hexagonal- or what ends. A people’s architecture can The massive, earthen, San Francisco octagonal-shaped hogans that, with be evaluated by how well its buildings fired brick, milled de Asís Church, in Ranchos de Taos, their doorways oriented toward the east fulfill their function by their design, New Mexico, is the epitome of this lumber, iron, glass and the morning sunrise, also embody craftsmanship and aesthetics. It will type of regionally adapted Old World profound cosmic understandings. also be judged by the effect its buildings and dressed stone architecture, as is the San Esteban Significantly, this lived-in space can have upon the natural and man- was evident. Church at Acoma Pueblo. also be where elaborate, lengthy made environments, as well as on the Closer to home, we can appreciate ceremonies take place, sometimes with The frontal positioning and elevation individual and collective human body the great buildings of the Pueblo the creation of detailed sand paintings of the altar reflect the hierarchical and psyche. people—large communal, multistoried on the floor and all-night chanting and and authoritarian nature of a society Throughout history—and perhaps apartment complexes like those of recitation of prayers and sacred stories, that also built torreones, or defense against all odds—humans have given Chaco Canyon and Taos Pueblo. Their carried out by the hatathli, or medicine towers, and enormous governmental form to their deepest thoughts and designs echo the ascending elevations man. Although the hogan is but one buildings such as the Casas Reales, aspirations in the form of gigantic of the land, from valley to foothills, to enclosed space, areas within it can be the Palace of the Governors, in Santa pyramids, mammoth temples carved mesas and mountain peaks. In these designated to serve highly specialized Fe. In contrast, the houses of the out of stone, spires that reach to the communities, people built multiple functions, reinforcing a strict order in common people—the vast majority of high heavens, as well as through kivas, underground ceremonial the lives of the Diné. the population—tended to be simple, fabulously domed buildings that chambers that serve as a focal point continued on page 8 www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • March 2016 7 The Magic continued from page 7 earthy and welcoming, a true reflection has specialized in massive steel, concrete of the humility and humanity of the and glass buildings to house the genízaro, or mestizo (synthesis of state’s leading financial, governmental, Spanish and Native American) society medical and cultural institutions. It that evolved in Nuevo México over the has also built land-use-defining road course of 300 years of relative isolation. and freeway systems with colossal bridges and overpasses. And, it has Among the first buildings constructed supported the construction of modular by the Americans in this region were suburban houses, big-box retail stores military forts such as Fort Union and enormous shopping malls, rickety and Fort Sumner, which employed franchise buildings, fortress-like a combination of stone, adobe and public schools, and ostentatious hilltop timber. The tradition of military mansions for the rich and famous. defense architecture has persisted to this day with New Mexico’s many A response to this, but in the opposite military bases, which are off-limits to direction, has been the relatively Pre-1940s adobe home in Santa Cruz, Española Valley most citizens and, therefore, mainly recent development of ecological, in the vernacular invisible. low-impact Earthship Biotecture, construction such as those northwest of Taos, of homes and In Nuevo México, and straw-bale and modern adobe other structures. houses, which are scattered throughout nearly every These creations the state. Part and parcel of this distinguished generation was conscientious effort to reduce humans’ Nuevo México carbon footprint have been myriad able to participate from every attempts to construct toxin-free, other state and in the vernacular energy-efficient green buildings. The saturated the construction of homes most recent edifices on the campus landscape with of Santa Fe Community College are and other structures. points of beauty, prime examples, as are numerous Aside from this, the Anglo-American interest and homes that employ solar panels, radiant culture has been prolific in the warmth. Youth engrossed in adobe horno construction project heating, water catchment and systems introduction of building materials for recycling, along with many other As a child, I remember constructing new to the area, including, in Territorial shade house from felled Chinese elms beneficial technologies. corrals and barns for our animals times, fired brick, milled lumber, iron, and a two-foot-thick adobe wall that with the help of my brothers, as well glass and dressed stone such as is As promising as the tide of green incorporates Mesoamerican-inspired as assisting while roofs went up on evident in the St. Francis Cathedral, building might be, what tends to be bas-relief sculpture. buildings on our homestead. On our in downtown Santa Fe. The effects of lacking from this scene are significant own, my brother Joe and I dug warrens The height of my vernacular building opportunities for low-income residents, through the mountains of piñón wood experience, however, coincided with the especially youth, to experience the brought down from the forests and built design, supervision and construction magical and rewarding process of forts out of assorted logs and posts every of a large amphitheater in a forest creating unique and special spaces out chance we got, especially after watching redoubt near Mt. Taylor. The structure, of living, breathing materials imbued an inspiring television episode of “The which comfortably accommodates 100 with the makers’ own energies. The urge Rifleman,” with actor Chuck Connors. or more people, was built around a to build is so deeply entrenched that, small, circular, central plaza and in the especially as children, it is thought to In the last few years, it has been my shape of a giant turtle, replete with an be an innate and nearly irrepressible pleasure to work with inner-city youth expressive head and legs. Hundreds instinct on a par with exploring one’s in North Philadelphia in the creation of of native youth, who participated surroundings. entire parks featuring massive benches in its construction, were ecstatic at made from recycled discarded brick So much building is now done for us having the opportunity to co-create and stone. Back in New Mexico, I by the so-called “experts” that all we a space that incorporated their own was fortunate to participate in the have to do is to move in or adjust our ideas and energy. In so doing, they construction of the all-adobe Dar al vision to a subdivision that popped up gave expression to the ideals of our Islam mosque, in Abiquiú, designed seemingly overnight in a field across the time: learning directly from nature, by the late Egyptian architect Hassan street. Because of this, we have much honoring the sanctity of life, exploring a Fathy, author of Architecture for the Jo-jo Williams and child from North less investment in our communities, creative hands-on approach to building Poor. The project was, to a great extent, Philadelphia building a public bench in the landscape or in each other. Too and, perhaps most masterfully crafted by his then-80- with recycled materials often, we no longer feel attachment to important, building something assistant, Alah Aladin. or creative pride in our buildings or community. i American-manufactured corrugated With the help of friends and informal, our increasingly featureless villages, Alejandro López is an tin on Nuevo Mexicano village spontaneously assembled teams, I have towns and cities. In Nuevo México, educator who employs architecture cannot be underestimated. also built many adobe ovens, a huge particularly, nearly every previous the art of building with banco in the foyer of Plaza Resolana, Contemporary American architecture generation was able to participate natural materials. a small domed building, a circular

8 Green Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com Keeping Our Heritage Fire-gutted Francisca Hinojos House Is Being Rebuilt Seth Roffman

ne of Santa Fe’s most unique and cherished historic houses, the Francisca Hinojos House, builtO in the 1880s a few blocks from Santa Fe’s plaza, is being rebuilt. The Territorial-style house, which preservationists have said “…adds more to that streetscape than almost any other building on Palace Avenue,” was substantially damaged in 2013 by what is believed to have been arson. A plaque from the Historic Santa Fe Foundation remained embedded in what was left of the front wall. Demolition had been proposed. John Wolf, owner of Wolf Corp builders, bought the property and is carefully restoring the house to its original appearance. It will become his residence.

The Hinojos House is a good example of the Americanization Period in Santa Fe’s history, when Eastern architectural styles were consciously imported in order to “look American.” Subsequently, those efforts led to the successful plea for statehood. An adobe residence

with unusual architectural details, the © Seth R offman (3) house was designed and constructed by itinerant French artisans brought from Louisiana by Archbishop Lamy to build the St. Francis Cathedral. The exterior is more typical of Southern architecture during the period of French occupation than of Santa Fe’s indigenous building styles. Built on a brick and stone foundation with stone buttresses, it has plastered adobe walls, a bay window, an ornate portal and a pitched and multi- gabled terneplate roof, punctuated by four corbelled brick chimneys. A retaining wall in front of the house is made of stone left over from the Top: The Hinojos House in 2008; at the start of renovation, Feb. 2016; building of the church. Bottom (r): just after the fire in 2013; Feb. 2016 (above)

Historical reports state that a small rear building with a hutch roof formerly served In 1887, Doña Francisca as the kitchen for the main house. Due to excessive summer heat and cooking bequeathed the property odors, it was a common custom in New Mexico, as well as the Southeast, to have to her son, Don Alfredo an unattached kitchen. Hinojos, a prominent political figure who was © E liott Mc D owell The house was designed and constructed by the Cathedral’s organist French artisans brought by Archbishop Lamy. for almost 50 years. At that time, the lands adjacent to the plot where the house was built included what are now Martínez Street and the grounds of La Posada According to Fr. Angélico Chávez in Origins of New Mexico Families, Doña Francisca Hotel. The house was occupied by Francesca Hinojos’ granddaughter Frances Hinojos owned the property between 1856 and 1872. She had moved from Albuquerque Hinojos until shortly after the property was purchased by Lois Field in 1948. At after trading land on the Old Plaza in Albuquerque with a priest for property in Santa that time, it had fallen into disrepair and was hardly habitable, as Frances had Fe. Hinojos, born around 1836, is said to have descended from Aparicio Alonso de lived there with 27 cats and no electricity, water or heat. An early preservationist, Hinojos of Zacatecas, Lois Field, along with sculptor-turned-building-contractor Agnes Sims, restored who came to New and remodeled the house, making it livable. Mexico early in the 18th century as a Other distinguished members of Santa Fe’s community have been housed in soldier. Her father, that building as well: the North American Institute, the Native American Prep Blas de Hinojos, was School, several attorneys, the advertising agency Creative Images, and the offices el comandante principal of photographers Elliott McDowell, and William Field Design. Field took over of New Mexico at the the house in 1974 and owned it until after the fire. Fortunately, the building will time he was killed in now have a future, perhaps to make more history. i the Navajo campaign Seth Roffman is editor-in-chief of Green Fire Times. of 1835. www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • March 2016 9 SEVENTH RAY SKIN CARE utting edge technology customizes every Cfacial to help you look your best! We specialize in: • non-invasive anti-aging facials • acupoint facial & micro current lifting • microderm abrasion • LED light therapy 2019 Galisteo St. N8 In Business Since 1992 SantaFe, NM 87505 www.seventhrayskincare.com • 505.982.9865

10 Green Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com Belmont del Norte: A solar Straw-Bale Vacation Rental House in Southern Colorado

his unique mountaintop home in the area space and volume (3,330 square feet) San Luís Valley is offered as a vacation to really see what this type of construction Trental or space for family reunions or could achieve, both in energy efficiency and business getaways. It has five bedrooms, two design. Even at 8,500 feet elevation, where living areas, large eat-in kitchen, separate the outside temperature sometimes drops dining area and two and one-half baths. to –15 degrees, with highs in the teens, It is located near the town of Del Norte, the house, even with no heat on, never on 45 acres that have been certified by the gets below 58–60 degrees—a testament to National Wildlife Federation as a sanctuary the insulation qualities of local, certified for nurturing and protecting elk, deer, barley straw bale construction, radiant floor mountain lions, coyotes and many species heating and a modified, fully engineered of birds. Some amazing rock formations are frame. He used 15-gauge stucco wire on scattered around the area. both sides of the straw walls, pinned with sod staples every square foot. All wood The house, even with no members have Tyvek and diamond lath installed over them, as well. He used three heat on, never gets below coats of white portland/lime custom-blend 58–60 degrees. stucco, inside and out. After curing the stucco, he stained the exterior walls with This straw-bale, sustainable, off-grid iron sulfate. solar house was built by artist/builder Bill Green, who says that the climate and The photovoltaic system—2kW of solar conditions for straw-bale buildings are panels and one Outback Mate inverter with near perfect in southern Colorado and 16 Rolls Surret batteries—has served the northern New Mexico, with more than house well as its only source of electricity. 300 days of sun per year. Green learned The house has no electrical, water or sewer straw-bale building techniques from a man bills and only minimal propane bills. named Evan Crawford, in New Zealand If you’re interested in renting a house (strawbuilthomes.com). with a view of the Great Sand Dunes Technical Details National Park that leaves a minimal carbon The house was designed for a family of footprint, contact owner Stan Tucker: five, with the intention of being able to 214.505.9955, [email protected] or visit accommodate many visiting guests. Green www.belmontdelnorte.com i decided to push the envelope in terms of © Construction photos © William Green © Construction photos William ucker (5) © Stan T www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • March 2016 11 Radiant New Mexico Article and photos by Bob Dunsmore

hen our early ancestors first resolana, having absorbed solar rays, discovered fire and learned how would release luxurious radiant energy toW manage its energy, the fire’s radiant far into the night. heat cooked food and heated water, Subsidized, dirty oil and gas encouraged rocks of a fire ring, people and pets us to forget about radiant energy’s value very efficiently. But radiant heat—from and usefulness. Forced-air furnaces a fire or from the sun—does not heat expel heated air into living spaces. As air. Instead, air is warmed by moving we know, warm air rises. The warmest across surfaces that have been radiantly air in our homes is not where we are. heated. You have likely noticed that a single cloud can force you to suddenly become chilled on a day of abundant Pueblo dwellers sunshine. On a cold night, enjoying allowed sunlight to Julie and Bob Dunsmore’s home in Vallecitos was built for about $40 per square foot, the warmth of a campfire, you may before installing solar electric panels and batteries. Its walls are R40 straw bales, for suddenly become cold when someone strike adobe and rock which they paid $4 per bale, including delivery from the San Luís Valley. The metal walks between you and the fire. roof is a 36 foot-by-22-foot heating and cooling system, created by raising the metal surfaces, which stored above the roofing plywood using 2-by-2s. Air allowed to escape the attic vents cools For tens of thousands of years, air was energy that would be the building in the summer. Closing the vents and running a fan brings solar-heated not heated for warmth. Cliff dwellers released into living air from under the roof into the living space of the house. and pueblo dwellers of the land that would become New Mexico allowed spaces as heat. the sun’s short-wave light to strike During the energy crisis of the 1970s, I adobe and rock surfaces, which stored became interested in finding a solution energy that would be released into to the phenomenon known as the living spaces as long-wave radiant “heat-or-eat dilemma.” Many families energy, or heat. Radiant energy warms living in manufactured homes in living spaces efficiently and cleanly economically depressed areas of the Río without heating the air. Grande Valley attempted to heat their In tipis, an opening at the top allows homes with firewood. They couldn’t air to escape, exhausting smoke from afford propane, nor could propane the fire below. Wood fire heats rocks, adequately heat poorly insulated trailer which radiate heat for many hours after homes. Many families have lost their the fire has died out. Native Americans lives attempting to make it through used radiant heat from rocks in diverse cold winter nights in highly flammable structures, while European groups built manufactured homes. heavy fireplaces that, even in castles, During the energy crisis of the early heated massive walls. Builders in Asia ’70s, Bill Yanda of Santa Fe, the inventor heated floors. of the now-famous Yanda greenhouse, Heating and cooling for free. Here you can see the 3-foot-high cement thermal wall came to Alamosa, Colorado, where on the south side of the house. Glass panels go to floor level so that the thermal wall I was living at the time, to share his is able to absorb solar heat during the cold months. In the summer, the sun reflects experience with radiant solar energy. off the vertical glass, allowing the thermal wall and adobe floor to cool and become His design incorporated a massive a heat “sink,” conditioning the air to a very pleasant cool temperature. adobe-wall resolana on the north side of a greenhouse. The roof of the Outside, snow was deep against the blower. But the most amazing thing greenhouse was insulated to catch the greenhouse glass. Bill was reaching for about this actually began a quiet energy warm air trapped by the “greenhouse a beautiful, ripe tomato. revolution: The heat under his floor cut his home’s heating bill in half and paid effect.” Short-wave energy from the We convened a meeting of neighbors for the solar system in one month! sun passes through glass easily, but as to find a way to solve the heat-or-eat soon as it heats an object, that object dilemma. Bill North, a rancher, shared Thousands of do-it-yourself solar reradiates the energy as long-wave his experience of building a simple collectors in Bill’s region, the San Luís radiation. Long-wave radiation does solar collector to keep water pipes from Valley of Colorado, now pump heat not pass through glass as easily and freezing in his home’s crawlspace. The into crawlspaces, turning floors into builds up as heat. Plants in such a collector, made of black plastic stapled radiant heat surfaces. The solar heat greenhouse will thrive, even in freezing to his south wall with a layer of clear from the collectors stratifies under the air, if they are exposed to the resolana. plastic spaced an inch or so in front of floors. Installed crawlspace insulation— Blessed with abundant, free, radiant Bill Yanda showed us a slide that the black plastic, attracted and trapped much easier than insulating an entire energy from the sun, people of the changed my life. It showed Bill swinging enough solar energy to keep the pipes house!—keeps the heated air under the Southwest discovered early on that in a hammock in his greenhouse. from freezing, once pumped under floor. The solar-heated air is recirculated the north adobe wall of a plaza, or the ranch-house floor with a simple continued on page 32

12 Green Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com Solar NEWSBITEs Nevada Solar Fight Could Become National Issue In December, the three-person public utility commission in Nevada, under pressure projects. In December, Congress voted to extend the 30 percent Investment Tax from the state’s largest electric utility, NV Energy, effectively threw a wrench into Credit (ITC) for commercial and residential installations for another three years, at the state’s solar-power market. The regulators drastically rolled back a key financial which point it will ramp down incrementally through 2021 and remain at 10 percent incentive for rooftop solar installations. The decision could mean thousands of beginning in 2022. dollars of higher electricity costs for existing customers, who may see their monthly fee raised threefold by 2020 and their net metering credit reduced by 18 percent. The New Solar-Power Systems Installed with move has prompted a mass exodus of solar contractors from the state with the most USDA/Rural Energy for America Program solar jobs per capita. USDA Rural Development’s Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) has provided grants to qualifying businesses in New Mexico in recent months to facilitate Net metering is the policy most states have adopted that allows homeowners to sell installation of renewable-energy (RE) systems. the excess electricity from their solar panels back to the utility at set prices. It enables solar customers to defray their upfront costs. But utilities have opposed the policy H.A.W. Farms, LLC, in Belen, received $134,092 to offset the $748,144 installation because they lose kilowatt-hours from solar customers and then have to pay those cost of a 990-solar-panel system that is now saving that enterprise $3,000 to $4,000 customers for their power. Conservative utility allies such as the American Legislative per month on its energy bill. REAP funding in the amount of $18,067 went toward Exchange Council (ALEC) are waging a nationwide battle against net metering to construction costs for a $72,270 system for the Super 8 Motel in Santa Rosa. When get other states to follow Nevada’s lead. installation of three high-efficiency water heaters and solar collectors is completed, the system will produce enough savings to offset most of the cost of electricity needed Two homeowners have filed a class-action lawsuit against NV Energy, and a coalition to run the business. Silverleaf Family Farms in Corrales received $4,522 toward an of solar companies is seeking a ballot measure that would reverse the regulators’ $18,090 photovoltaic (PV) solar array. The system has replaced 33 percent of the farm’s decision. Solar enjoys widespread support from Nevada voters in both parties: A energy usage. Sedillo Hill Route 66 Travel Center was provided a grant of $41,720 recent Colorado College poll found that 75 percent of voters support tax incentives toward a $166,878 solar system that generates 80,504 kW of electricity, enough for for solar. 67 percent of the store’s power needs.

Solar Industry Growth in New Mexico TheRE AP program was created by Congress to help farmers, ranchers and small Although other Southwestern states and several less sunny states have far surpassed rural businesses access funds to purchase RE systems and to make energy-efficiency New Mexico in solar power growth due to more solar-friendly state policies, improvements. The program is not available for residential use and is available only New Mexico ranks ninth in solar jobs per capita, according to a new report by the for businesses in communities of fewer than 50,000 people; however, there is no Washington, D.C.-based Solar Foundation. The New Mexico solar industry is population limit for agricultural producers wanting to apply for the program. To helping fill a gap in employment left by an idling construction industry, as well as obtain information on the REAP program, visit www.usda.gov/energy or call the layoffs in the coal, oil and gas industries. The solar industry employed 1,900 people Rural Development State Office in Albuquerque: 505.761.4957. in 2015 and has been a key sector for job growth, expected to reach a rate of 12.4 percent in 2016, compared to the state’s overall rate of 0.9 percent. Roughly 102 SunPower® by Positive Energy Solar solar companies operate in New Mexico. The median wage for solar installers is Recertified as a Benefits Corporation about $21 an hour. BenefitsC orporations (B Corps) are for-profit companies certified by the nonprofit The foundation’s report B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, projects that by the accountability and transparency. Having demonstrated high-integrity business end of 2016, installed practices, SunPower® by Positive Energy Solar (SPPES), a New Mexico-based solar capacity in New company, was recently recertified as a B Corp. The company also received B Lab’s Mexico—utility- Best for the Environment award in 2014 and 2015. scale installations and individual residential The employee-owned company’s distinction was earned for providing good wages, and commercial benefits and growth opportunities for its team members and for contributing to systems—will jump by schools and nonprofits. SPPES has also become known for its community and nearly 65 percent in just volunteer work. Close to 1,000 hours of employee community service were completed over a year, to 595 MW, in 2015. enough to power about 139,000 homes. The SPPES touts the equipment it selects for its residential, commercial, governmental report, cosponsored by the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources and nonprofit customers for its long-term performance and low environmental Department, was based on direct telephone and email surveys with businesses impact. Positive Energy Solar joined the SunPower® Master Dealer network in around the state. January. Visit www.positiveenergysolar.com Sol Luna Solar Manager Earns Certification The fight for energy freedom and energy choice could become an important issue in the presidential election. Zacarias Johnson, project manager of Sol Luna Solar, has earned certification as a North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners Certified PV Installation New Mexico Solar Tax Credit Professional. The certification required documentation of relevant education and Extension Bills Tabled experience related to photovoltaic (PV) system installation and passing a rigorous exam covering knowledge, skills and abilities required to design, install and maintain Two bills in the 2016 Legislature aimed at extending New Mexico’s solar tax credit PV systems. The exam assesses knowledge on electrical and mechanical systems and a memorial calling for adding solar panels to state buildings did not survive. The design, the National Electrical Code, roofing and construction techniques, system fiscal reality of falling oil and gas revenues, as well as politically divided legislators, maintenance and troubleshooting. impacted many sectors. After the solar tax-credit extension proposal was tabled in committee, Sen. Mimi Stewart (D-Albuquerque) attempted to tack it on as an Sol Luna Solar, based in Dixon, New Mexico, provides solar PV integration for amendment to a Senate bill, but that was rejected by a vote of 20–19. Stewart said residential, commercial and utility-scale projects. The company, known for its that there are still “climate change deniers” in the Legislature. competitive pricing and customer service, has operated in northern New Mexico for more than 40 years, installing systems in Albuquerque, Taos and Santa Fe. 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n a cold evening in January, the Santa Fe Public Schools’ Board of Education gave the Early College Opportunities School proposal a warm reception. AfterO a 5–0 vote to approve the district’s newest high school, director Steve Carrillo said, “It feels like this might be one of the greatest things we’ve ever done. The legacy of this could turn out to be of historic significance.” Thirty students, parents and community partners testified to the value of the new school during a lengthy public forum that brought many of those present to tears.

ECO, the Early College Opportunities Applied Science Magnet School, is ramping up for an August 2016 opening, with students in grades nine, 10 and 11. Early College is a nationally trending model that allows students to pursue certifications and associate degrees while they complete their high school diplomas.

Cultivating literacy in the intellectual and hands-on aspects of sustainability The school will occupy the 25-acre site now known as South Campus or Vo-Tech, between Zia Road and the Arroyo Chamiso, adjacent to Santa Fe High School. The Mariah Martínez, Dakota Tórrez, Morelia Cuevas, Elvis Corado and Kenia Ontiveros, site includes woodshops, automotive shops, welding, construction, greenhouse and release trout in Ty Middleton's ASE Wildlife Biology class aquaponics facilities. In partnership with Santa Fe Community College (SFCC), The school is an outgrowth of the Academy for Sustainability Education (ASE), classrooms and other space at the nearby Higher Education Center (HEC) will a 300-student program of study at Santa Fe High. Tammy Harkins, a dedicated also be utilized. Rebecca Estrada, executive director of the HEC, has been key sustainability educator and a guiding force behind ASE, has demonstrated how in coordinating SFCC leadership and staff to facilitate alignment between the important rapport, personalization and relevance are to student motivation and two institutions. achievement. Her ability to employ emotional intelligence, reach deeply into The genesis of the new school reflects interrelated efforts. Superintendent Joel students to tap their hopes and aspirations, and create a joyous community of Boyd and SFCC President Randy Grissom collaborated to advance the school as engaged learners has been a primary factor in launching the new school. a critical piece of SFPS’s secondary reform plan and as a way to develop a bridge Student Dylan Ramírez says, “I’m moving, along with many other ASE students, to SFCC’s world-class Sustainable Technology program and facilities. The idea into the new ECO School. I have been very lucky to be part of this kind of of a magnet school of sustainability was also pitched to the district multiple times learning, with its many projects and field trips. My mentorship and all the tools during the last seven years as a result of collaborative efforts on the part of Santa will definitely serve me in the future. This school provides all kinds of green Fe High teachers (including Marcia Barton and Ty Middleton), educational opportunities, like solar power and aquaponics.” Student Irie Charity says, “I’m consultants and community partners Paul Gibson, John Graham, Seth Biderman, excited about the challenge of getting college credit and learning serious skills Kim Shanahan and Kenneth Francis. Lynn Bickley of the Interfaith Coalition, and content through projects. I am a visual and hands-on learner. I want to be in Janet Bailey and Miguel Acosta were also key to helping move the effort along a school where motivated students tackle serious projects that make a difference while making sure it has depth and is accessible to all sectors of the community. in the world.” Current ninth-grader Annette Salas Morales said, “I love hands- on learning. I’ve learned so much about solar energy, sustainable agriculture, aquaponics and how important it is to lower our carbon footprint. I look forward to building my own Tiny Home.” The school has six main goals: • Close the achievement gap • Increase literacy in the intellectual and hands-on aspects of sustainability • Provide free, dual-credit certifications and applied science degrees • Build workforce readiness and create human and practical connections between school, mentors and the world of work • Make the learning community a vital and welcoming center for students, educators, families, business partners and social service providers • Use innovative pedagogy, scheduling and leadership norms to attract and retain world-class educators and partners, and become a national model of what can be done within public school districts

Closing the Achievement Gap The achievement gap is shameful, personally degrading to many youth, and one Vicky Gutiérrez Ochoa, Mariela Erives, Dakota Tórres and Sam Jacquez build benches of the reasons local economies and the national economy cannot keep pace with for a Río Grande Restoration project the needs and norms of the new millennium.

16 Green Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com ASE student Yadira Brugger works with volunteer Dakota Tórres works the Kubota tractor at ASE students learn about waste and recycling woodturning instructor Alan Becker. ASE South Campus during his summer job. at the Santa Fe Recycling Center Big schools often take a certain amount of failure, segregation, violence, vandalism, economic strength is not about a few large corporate employers but rather about burnout and alienation for granted. Teachers and students are left to figure out a resilient network of small businesses and public institutions. how to fit into the cookie-cutter. Some enjoy school and do well. Some do well, The ECO School is committed to cultivating literacy in the intellectual and as measured by GPA and test scores, but don’t really connect with the learning hands-on aspects of sustainability. Good education is by nature revolutionary, or process. A large number of students neither do well nor engage in the process. Day at least evolutionary. Even though we still test for the thinking that produced the after day, they walk the edge of despair, self-loathing, indifference and misplaced problems students will inherit, we don’t have to keep teaching with it. emotion. They are frequently absent, tuned-out, dropping out, and unable to plug into constructive local, state or national communities and economies. The educators who are lining up to be part of this new school are “thought partners” when it comes to figuring out how to infuse sustainability into all aspects of the ECO’s school design flips the dynamic. Instead of kids stressing to adapt to curriculum. SFCC partners like Camilla Bustamante, Amanda Hatherly, Luke the cookie-cutter, ECO’s network of educators is taking on the design and Spangenburg, Xubi Wilson, Shawn Miller and Adam Cohen are especially well- implementation challenge of adapting learning experiences to the needs and suited to provide coaching in cutting-edge theory and practice, when it comes wants of the students. The same students who are disengaged and disruptive in a to sustainable technologies. In the ECO School, sustainability will apply equally conventional learning environment often prove to be a motivated leader if given to technology, modes of thought, leadership, teacher stress, wrap-around and opportunities to tell their story, learn their way and engage with activities they interdisciplinary approaches to project-based learning. find relevant.

In a small, personalized learning community, it is not accepted or assumed that Everyone is College Material Even by those with compassionate intentions, I’ve heard it said many times: “Some there will be a 50 percent truancy or failure rate. The ECO School will demonstrate people just aren’t college material.” In ECO, we want to redefine and recontextualize that public school districts are capable of delivering a relevant and effective learning the idea of “college material.” Through SFCC and other accrediting postsecondary culture to underserved and underutilized youth. institutions we are happy to offer all ECO students free dual-credit, certifications ECO-Literacy and two-year associate degrees. This is both an equity issue and a way to ground Is it possible to have a 4.6 GPA, ace your ACTs and SATs, nail the PARCC, kill college in applied science, with powerful connections to careers and real-world on your AP exams, be deadly on your DEAs, eviscerate the EOCs, rout the SBA problems. We want ECO graduates to be leaders, entrepreneurs and equipped and still be ecologically illiterate? Alas, the answer is yes. While a state education thinkers about complex problems, and we know that engaged college can play a department might be able to accept that disconnect, the biosphere and local key role in the process of developing those capacities. economies cannot. We are in the middle of an ebbing tide in public education funds. Why? Because the capricious nature of the fossil-fuel economy is out of our Workforce Readiness Revisited If we are not careful, workforce readiness means technical training for cogs in hands. This is just one reason why a planned new-energy, sustainability economy an impersonal and overly hierarchical factory system. In fact, many have argued is critical to the health of our communities, especially in New Mexico, where continued on page 30

www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • March 2016 17 Go Green and Get Outside Kelly Phillips

The Outdoor Club, a Capital High School (CHS) club focusing on public service and environmental issues, began in August 2015. The club consists of 20 motivated students, led by teachers Kelly Phillips, Jen Bakevich and Reid Burgess. Throughout the 2015–2016 school year, students have raised school and community awareness on environmental issues. The club is improving school recycling efforts, maintaining local neighborhood trails, raising native trout and revitalizing the campus greenhouse for food production. Capital High’s Outdoor Club helps preserve outdoor spaces and serves the community.

School-wide recycling has dramatically benefited through the club’s efforts. The number of recycling containers tripled. The club made “How to Recycle” posters and placed the Santa Fe Recycling Guide on each bin. Environmental Science students are investigating the decomposition rate of compostable lunch trays. Our goal is to have students composting their food waste and lunch trays for use snowshoed Aspen Vista Trail to further witness seasonal trail usage and benefit in the greenhouse. from healthy exercise. The teachers have reinforced the importance of serving the environment, as well as At CHS, the greenhouse has sat vacant for nearly a decade. The club’s plan is the community. The club has been involved in a variety of “Get Outside!” activities. to repair structural damage, beautify the space and plant vegetable starts. The Trout in the Classroom is a program that allows students to raise native trout for club wants to donate extra starts to families in need, so that they can have fresh, release into the Río Grande. The club cares for baby trout, known as alevins, as homegrown vegetables. This is a large project that the club would like to improve they mature to the fry and juvenile stages. The students are responsible for feeding upon over the next five years. We are looking to expand our growing space by the fish, cleaning the tank and completing weekly water-quality tests to maintain building small hoop gardens. Ideally, the club could be growing fresh greens for the appropriate level of nutrients. The club has learned about the trout’s habitat the CHS cafeteria and continue to support students and families who would like in preparation for a release party in April. Teachers and the club will camp prior to volunteer in the garden in exchange for fresh food. to the event in celebration of a local forest biome. The Outdoor Club has made great strides in its first year to get students excited Last September, the club learned about trail maintenance in the Tierra Contenta about being outside and living a healthier lifestyle, for themselves and the planet. neighborhood. Through trail restoration, the students demonstrate to the At a school of 1,300 students, we will happily continue to promote environmentally community the importance of preserving outdoor spaces. In October, the club responsible choices and attitudes. i hiked the Norski Trail in the Santa Fe National Forest to observe trail-system design, identify foliage and take in the magnificent vistas. In January, the club Kelly Phillips, M.A.T., is an environmental science teacher at Capital High School in Santa Fe.

“Love Where We Live” The Youth Ambassadors Program and Community Learning Network th By Serina Padgett – 7 Grade Student, St. Michael’s High School, Santa Fe

Learn, explore, volunteer, train. These qualities. This helps students discover As we’ve often heard, “The best are things the Community Learning what is valuable about our community way to learn is by doing.” Other Network’s Santa Fe Youth Ambassadors and the people who live here. The interesting, off-the-beaten-path program offers as part of its “Love program helps students understand learning adventures CLN offers Where We Live” initiative. The New why certain things that often go include hands-on activities and Mexico-born, locally based nonprofit unnoticed are important. interactions with community is dedicated to “building stronger In addition to a walk-about in Santa communities through real-life learning Fe’s historic district or along Canyon in real-life places with real people.” Road, CLN facilitates diverse off- Learning about traditional food gardening the-beaten-path learning experiences The program at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture that focus on regional history, cultural demonstrates that heritage preservation and issues such educators who are engaged in issues young people can make as water conservation. CLN works and projects in our region such as with other community organizations growing food or replastering an adobe a difference, too. to coordinate opportunities such as church. These kinds of activities are fun CLN provides opportunities for learning about food security through for students and can also be a way of small groups of middle-school, high- a visit to the Food Depot, where Youth participate in the annual Ranchos bringing people together to strengthen school and college students to learn volunteers prepare to deliver donated de Taos enjarre and help the community a sense of belonging and connectedness about Santa Fe’s unique and amazing food supplies to the needy. replaster the old adobe church as a community.

18 Green Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com and supports passing on traditions and cultures New Mexico Leaders in to future generations. We can learn important Mindfulness Conference life lessons, meet new people and get to april 22–23 at santa ana pueblo and albuquerque know fellow community members better. The program values the participation, voices and New Mexico educators, innovators, health-care providers, opinions of young people and demonstrates business leaders, therapists and policymakers statewide will gather that we can make a difference, too. at Santa Ana Pueblo’s Tamaya Resort and the FatPipe business incubator in Albuquerque for the second annual New Mexico Santa Fe has a rich history, and there is much Leaders in Mindfulness Conference on April 22 and 23, from 9 to learn about our city. The Youth Ambassadors a.m. to 5 p.m. program encourages students to get involved in the community. Adults are also invited to On April 22, the New Mexico Mindful Business Intensive will participate and may want to volunteer, make take place at the FatPipe business incubator in Albuquerque. a donation or help sponsor the development Participants will learn how to increase their impact, profits and sense of meaning through applying practices based in both of Youth Ambassadors in Santa Fe. To learn mindfulness and emotional intelligence. Nationally known Students volunteer at the SF Horse Rescue Shelter more about the program or get involved, speakers will include producer/director/screenwriter Lee Zlotoff visit www.sfyouthambassadors.org or www. While participating in these adventures, and Catherine Bell, author of The Awakened Company. More than communitylearningnetwork.org i a dozen New Mexico-based business and entrepreneurial leaders students keep personal learning logs, take a will explain how they are applying these practices locally. regional history survey, and create a culminating EDITOR’S NOTE: Serina Padgett is 13 years old. project that reflects what they have learned. She has dedicated this article to her English teacher, On April 23, at Santa Ana Pueblo’s Tamaya Resort, attendees will Upon the completion of the program, they Roseanne Noedel, who passed away from kidney cancer discuss how to bring socially conscious choices and mindfulness last month. “In the short receive a certificate stating that they are official into workplaces, classrooms and social-service agencies. They will trimester I spent with Youth Ambassadors. explore the day’s theme of crossing boundaries to expand inclusion her, through her various and diversity in purposeful ways that foster collective impact. ways of teaching, she Focus areas will include Mindful Governance, From Mindful I am interested in this program because I enjoy taught us many things learning about and preserving our culture. Self-Compassion to Mindful Community Compassion, as well we couldn’t see for as Mindfulness and Social Action. I believe that is very important. I believe ourselves,” Serina said. this program will benefit future generations “I really can’t thank her For information and registration, visit www.wisdompreneurs.biz because our community will grow stronger. enough. She was very and www.newmexicomindfulness.com The program inspires a desire to keep Santa motivational to many of us.” Fe’s oldest buildings and artifacts preserved

www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • March 2016 19 Op-Ed: Living Feminism: Leading with our Values Sarah Ghiorse and Fatima van Hattum

uring the month of March, when International Women’s Day is celebrated, we at NewMexicoWomen.Org, a program of the New Mexico Community DFoundation, often pause to reflect on our commitment to gender equity and the rights of women and girls. We find ourselves discussing how to balance work, life and families; that is, how to do it all. This broader conversation then moves into self-reflection about how do we, as a women’s fund and program, embody our feminist values? Does our organization provide paid parental leave? Do we enable flexible and fair working practices that promote family well-being? Is childcare available at our events? We know that many women across the country and even across the world are having this same conversation every day.

In fact, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) recently wrote: “Let’s stop talking about ‘having it all’ and start talking about the very real Patricia Trujillo, Ph.D., associate professor of English and Chicana/o Studies at Northern challenges of ‘doing it all.’ We need New Mexico College our economy and our workplaces to support our working families. We For example, when is it the right time to bring up paid parental leave in your workplace need equal pay for equal work. We or to speak out against violence against women? Never and always. When you hear a pop need quality daycare that doesn’t song in exercise class with lyrics promoting violence against women, how do you respond? One strong woman we know brings it up with the instructor and management every time; © Anna C. H ansen bankrupt a family. We need gender- to date she has brought it up more than four times. And it’s always uncomfortable. Not Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Jill Cooper Udall neutral paid leave in this country because, eventually, all of us are nearly as uncomfortable as it is, however, for the one-in-three New Mexican women who 1 going to have those moments when we need to miss work to take care of our families—or will be victims of domestic violence at some point in their lives and the 21 percent of those moments when we need them to take care of us.” New Mexican women who will be raped at some point in their lives. How do we change culture if we don’t first articulate what the problems are and speak out?

International Women’s Day is celebrated in March Similarly, raising questions around paid parental leave or equal pay in the workplace is Do these kinds of spaces exist in the American workplace? If so, where? In a societal generally not an easy task. The oft-quoted statistic remains true: the United States is context where the term feminism is embraced, reviled and variously paired with the only developed country that doesn’t guarantee paid parental leave to employees. In presidential candidates and pop stars alike, what does it really mean to lead with feminist the United States, the “job-protected” unpaid leave via the Family and Medical Leave values? And how do we best uphold those values in our lives, workplaces and ways of Act (FMLA) is only for mothers and fathers who have been full-time employees for being? Here, we would like to propose two core themes—of many—that are essential at least 12 months at a company with more than 50 employees. Here in New Mexico to leading with feminist values. and across the country, this is little help to the many families who can’t afford to take time off without pay or who do not fit within those narrow stipulations. Coupled with Speak uncomfortable truths the reality that women in New Mexico are paid 79 cents for every dollar paid to men, Speaking truth to power can be difficult and uncomfortable. To challenge institutional amounting to an average yearly income gap of $8,789 between full-time working structures, gender norms or the status quo is rarely an easy thing to do, in the workplace women and men in the state, the result is an untenable burden2 —one that is further or anywhere, for that matter. Many women, even those in positions of leadership and compounded for women of color. For example, Native American women have to work significant power, have to navigate deeply held notions of internalized sexism that can nine extra months to make the same salary that white men made last year and then, on keep them from speaking out. When women do articulate dissent or critique, whether top of that, potentially have to take unpaid pregnancy leave or no leave at all.3 in a manner that is gentle, unapologetic or even aggressive, they have historically and 4 often continue to be relegated to the position of the witch, the hysteric and, more The Make it Work Campaign reminds us to “Stop being polite. Start asking questions.” recently, the bitch. This unfortunate default often undermines important conversations And use unapologetic hash tags such as #PAYGAPWTF. Yet, it is important to note that have the potential to lead to real change. that the context and implications vary for different communities and individuals speaking truths to power. For an undocumented or low-income woman of color, questioning management around pay levels involves very different stakes and power About NewMexicoWomen.Org dynamics than for a middle-class, white-collar woman working in an office. To fully NewMexicoWomen.Org (NMW.O), a program of the New Mexico Community acknowledge these important differences, an intersectional feminist analysis is critical. Foundation is the only fund of its kind in the state. It is an initiative that advances opportunities for women and girls statewide, so that they can lead self-sufficient, Adopt an intersectional analysis healthy and empowered lives. NMW.O works to fulfill its mission via a three- An intersectional analysis contends that people, and particularly women, experience pronged strategy to educate, lead and invest. NMW.O educates through research oppression in different configurations and with varying degrees of intensity. An and communications, seeking to bring public attention to issues affecting women intersectional feminist analysis extends beyond gender to include race, class, ability and and girls, with a goal of influencing policy. NMW.O leads through facilitating environment. It recognizes that systemic structures, patterns of oppression and identities alliances among nonprofits, funders and other sectors in order to concentrate resources, foster collaboration and build capacity. NMW.O provides philanthropic 1 Caponera, Betty. Incidence and Nature of Domestic Violence in NM XI, August 2012. investments to programs serving women and girls through donor education and 2 http://www.swwomenslaw.org/our-programs/equal-pay-for-women/ strategic grant making. NMW.O’s ongoing Take a Stand for New Mexico Women 3 http://www.aauw.org/2015/09/03/native-women-gender-pay-gap/ and Girls campaign aims to raise one dollar for each of the 1.04 million New 4 Make It Work is a three-year education campaign uniting a community of people who Mexican women and girls. believe that Americans shouldn’t have to choose between being there for family and earning a living. http://www.makeitworkcampaign.org/about/make-it-work/

20 Green Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com Top (l-r): Poet/family advocate Isabel Ribe; Women’s Funding Network panel; Bottom: Tewa Women United staff and associates; artist/farmer/researcher Roxanne Swentzell; Feb. 2016 NewMexicoWomen.org's “Power and Possibility” speakers, attendees, left end: Fatima van Hattum and Andrea Serrano; right end: Ms. Foundation CEO Teresa Younger, Sarah Ghiorse, Patricia Trujillo are not only interrelated; they are bound together and influenced by each other. are missing from the table. It means reflecting upon how we can do better and tangibly working to get there. It also means acknowledging that we will sometimes be wrong or This intersectional approach acknowledges that for some, such as our partners at Tewa might disagree with colleagues and friends—and knowing that is OK. Discomfort is and Women United, their work to improve the lives of women is inextricably connected has always been a part of any effective movement building or culture change. to working for environmental justice and community health. Similarly, Sexual Assault Services of Northwest New Mexico believes they must integrate healing historical and Finally, leading with feminist and social-justice values ultimately demands a commitment intergenerational traumas in their work to address sexual assault and gender-based violence. to stay the course. As Teresa Younger, president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation, For our partners at SPIRIT of Hidalgo, in rural Lordsburg, women’s empowerment means recently said at our legislative reception, “Tonight, I remind you that no battle has ever creating viable economic opportunities such as cooperatives or farmers’ markets. Finally, just been won and walked away. I know that’s what the history books have us believing. for Respect New Mexico Women, improving women’s lives is fundamentally tied to We have to remain vigilant to the issues that are most important to us on a daily basis. reproductive justice and respecting a woman’s right to keep decisions about reproductive We do not get to get tired, we do not get to say, ‘I fought that battle, now you fight it for health care between the woman, her family and her medical provider. me.’ No, we are in this together, we are in this for what is happening in New Mexico, in every part of the rest of this country.” At NewMexicoWomen.Org, we do get tired. Still, Ultimately, an intersectional feminist analysis allows communities and individuals to we keep having the conversation all year long because we are committed to “remaining articulate the multiple aspects of identity and experience that both enrich their lives vigilant” and to holding our leaders and ourselves accountable to our values, even when and potentially compound and complicate them. it cuts close to the bone. i Keep it up, keep it up Sarah Ghiorse is program director of NewMexicoWomen.Org, a program of the New Mexico To lead with feminist values can be uncomfortable. It can also make those around us Community Foundation. Her background is in post-colonial anthropology, philanthropy and uncomfortable. It means being nuanced and requires asking questions such as whose voices social change. Fatima van Hattum is program manager of NewMexicoWomen.Org. She has a background in gender studies, international development and food justice.

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Lloyd Kiva New: Art, Design, and Influence IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe 505.922.4242 Anne and Loren Kieve Gallery, Fritz Scholder Gallery, North Gallery Through July 31, 2016. (North Gallery will remain on view through Sept. 11) A New Century: The Life and Legacy of Cherokee Artist and Educator Lloyd Kiva New Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 710 Camino Lejo (Museum Hill), Santa Fe 505.476.1269 Through Dec. 30 Finding a Contemporary Voice: The Legacy of Lloyd Kiva New and IAIA New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W. Palace Avenue Santa Fe 505.476.5072 May 20 through Oct. 10

22 Green Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com Celebration of the Life and Art of Innovative Native American Artist-Designer Lloyd Kiva New

his year, 2016, is the centennial in an interpretive reproduction of the of the birth of seminal Native Kiva Studio, New’s successful 1950s TAmerican artist Lloyd Kiva New showroom in Scottsdale, and features (1916–2002), and three Santa Fe more than 40 printed textiles created arts institutions are celebrating the by IAIA students under New’s artistic anniversary in style. direction.

New, a Cherokee, who arose from humble beginnings on a family farm New was a pioneer in Oklahoma, became one of the first in Native art, fashion Native Americans to earn a degree in art education, at the Art Institute of Chicago, design and culturally in 1938. He then taught painting at the based education. Phoenix Indian School. After returning from Navy service on the Pacific Front, Fashions designed by Lloyd Kiva New at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture MIAC’s exhibition, A New Century: in 1941, New became a charter member The Life and Legacy of Cherokee Artist of the Arizona Craftsmen cooperative, emeritus. He also served key roles in worked for two years to assemble items and Educator Lloyd Kiva New, opened a group of artists that helped develop other institutions, including the National from their holdings, from his widow in February. It surveys New’s lifespan Scottsdale, Arizona, into a western center Museum of the American Indian, the Aysen New’s collection, and from and works using his art, fabrics, fashion of handcrafted arts. There, throughout Heard Museum and the Buffalo Bill important private collections that have designs, photos, sketches and archival the 1950s, he earned national acclaim for Historic Center. rarely been publicly displayed. documents in six sections: New Lands, handbags, clothing and printed textiles. Ancient Stories; Student and Teacher; The Museum of Indian Arts and In January, MoCNA opened Lloyd The “Godfather of Native Fashion” was An Artist at War; A New Enterprise/ Culture (MIAC), the IAIA Museum Kiva New: Art, Design, and Influence, an appointed artistic director of the newly Clothes Make the Man; New Horizons; of Contemporary Native Arts exhibition drawing on New’s pioneering formed Institute of American Indian and The New Legacy. (MoCNA) and the New Mexico concepts in Native art, fashion design Arts (IAIA) in 1961, and served in that Museum of Art are each presenting and culturally based education. It New had a broad, humanistic approach capacity until 1967. He then became the an exhibition focused on key aspects includes paintings completed between to the arts, stressing creative links to school’s president, serving until 1978, of New’s significant contributions to 1938 and 1995, presents the artist as the traditional arts but urging students returned to serve as interim president contemporary Native art. The museums an innovator of Native Modernism in 1988 and then became president continued on page 24 The Sound of Drums: A Memoir of Lloyd Kiva New Sunstone Press, 2016 Written by Lloyd Kiva New himself and edited by Ryan S. Flahive, archivist at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), The Sound of Drums is a personal look at the celebrated Native American artist, fashion designer and educator. New inspired thousands of artists and students during his career. His humble beginnings in rural Oklahoma awakened an obsession with nature and a connection to his Cherokee roots—a connection he sought to strengthen throughout his life. New’s story is one of inspiration, creativity and a lifelong search for meaning. The book offers a series of personal anecdotes, supplemented by historic photographs and appendices. New experienced firsthand the Great Depression, the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and the struggles of a Native man in an assimilationist society. After helping put Scottsdale, Arizona, on the map as an arts-and-crafts center and becoming a successful commercial artist, he gave up fame and fortune to teach art at IAIA in Santa Fe. The former Chief of the Cherokee Nation, the Honorable Wilma Mankiller, contributed a foreword to the manuscript before her passing in 2010. She remarked, “The Sound of Drums is an important book about a visionary artist who literally transformed the landscape of Native American art in the Southwest.” The book’s release coincides with the 100th anniversary of Lloyd Kiva New’s birth and is part of a year-long celebration at cultural and educational institutions in Santa Fe. It is available at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts and

www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • March 2016 23 Indigenous Climate Justice at the Institute of American Indian Arts Bineshi Albert and Jaida Grey Eagle

ndigenous peoples are often overlooked plan. In the past two years, with the on campus, opening when policy decisions are made and leadership of sustainability coordinator on April 21, 5-7 pm enactedI regarding climate change. Yet, and faculty member Anne Haven (public opening) these communities, which often still live McDonnell, IAIA has been awarded the called The Art of subsistence lifestyles, are the ones facing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Change: Indigenous the frontline impacts of climate change. (EPA) Eco Ambassador grant, which Peoples and Climate opaha 2016 They are having to deal with real changes has helped fund our work. Last year, we Justice. Students and to their food sources, as well as losing their installed a water-catchment system with a others on campus homes. They are not facing a possibility solar pump and a passive overflow system are creating work

of future climate change; they are being of berms and zuni bowls, with native in diverse mediums Carmelita M. T displaced today. plants and fruit trees. We also worked to speak to issues of on restoring eroded areas of our 140-acre climate change and climate justice. We are the world leaders in attendance. It was Just over a year ago, a ruling from New campus using berms, check-dams and also gathering interviews with Indigenous an opportunity to share real-life stories of Zealand’s government created the country’s native grasses. This year, we are installing a elders, activists and community members. Native people being impacted by climate first climate-change refugees. A family left solar thermal system in our greenhouse as We are creating the Indigenous Narratives change. Native nations continue to struggle the island of Kiribati due to massive coastal a demonstration project and to take a bite on Climate Change website on our with making their concerns known to erosion. Alaskan villages have had to plan out of our campus carbon footprint. We campus library page, to archive all of world leaders. for relocation because the ocean is starting hope to learn from this project and scale these interviews and serve as a resource to swallow up homes and coastlines. One Bineshi Albert, an IAIA student with many up renewable energy on campus. for learning about Indigenous experiences tribal community, the Isle de Jean Charles years of organizing and environmental- and perspectives on this topic. It is a unique Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw justice experience, is working to create a IAIA has been opportunity for us, as students, to record Indians, in southern Louisiana, is losing portfolio of short one-act plays, adapted these interviews. There is a deep knowledge its ancestral land to climate change faster awarded the EPA Eco by Native playwrights, based on interviews about the Earth and the climate within than any other place in the world due from COP 21, featuring Indigenous Ambassador grant. each of our communities, and to share that to rising sea levels. Climate change is As a Native arts college, IAIA has a unique peoples in this hemisphere who are on knowledge within our IAIA community also impacting land-based peoples with voice to use to address climate change. Our the front lines. Presenting these stories on is very meaningful. Our oral histories are changes in growing seasons, animal students come from diverse communities, stage will allow Indigenous communities, rich with knowledge that cannot be found migration patterns, timing for gathering many of which are experiencing climate- policy makers and other audiences to in textbooks. Our stories are our ancestors, medicinal plants, extreme weather, drought change impacts. Native artists can draw experience these voices in a direct way. breathing their lives and wisdom into us. and other changes. Indigenous peoples’ on collective memory and creatively The ultimate goal is to create a portfolio Ancestral knowledge is a gift we do not voices need to be included in today’s envision the future. To find real solutions of plays that can be shared with grassroots often get to share in such a unifying way, policy making when it comes to climate to climate change and its impacts, we need communities, so that they can produce and and it is powerful to see these interviews change in order for such policies to truly memory of what worked in the past and share their own stories. i being resourced as a learning tool. be responsible and effective. vision of what is possible in the future. Bineshi Albert and Jaida Grey Eagle are students Artists from Indigenous communities are During the recent COP 21 international At the Institute of American Indian Arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Albert uniquely positioned to communicate in climate conference meetings in Paris, is Yuchi and Annishinaabe. She is an Indigenous (IAIA) in Santa Fe, students are engaged this powerful way. many Indigenous people attended to Liberal Studies student. Grey Eagle is an Oglala in hands-on climate-solutions work with have their concerns and rights heard by Lakota tribal member who is studying photography. projects in our campus climate-action This spring, IAIA will host an art show

Lloyd Kiva New continued from page 23 not to be bound by them and to reject New’s influence provided a foundation Additionally, in October, IAIA stereotypical notions of American Indian for today’s artists to map out their own and MIAC will jointly present art and culture. He encouraged looking artistic path and gain increased relevance a symposium, The Lloyd Kiva New at innovative techniques and forms in the global art world. Centennial Convocation. This will be an and envisioned IAIA artists in a dialog interdisciplinary look at the contemporary between two cultures: their indigenous The artwork of the 1960s and ’70s began Native art movement. Other planned heritages and the nonindigenous a conversation around these issues that activities include fashion shows, panel contemporary mainstream. He asserted continues to this day. The New Mexico discussions, lectures, Veterans’ Day event that Native artists had a contribution to Museum of Art’s exhibit, opening on and additional special programming make to the field of contemporary art. In May 20, Finding a Contemporary Voice: The in conjunction with Indian Market in 1968, New wrote, “Given the opportunity Legacy of Lloyd Kiva New and IAIA, will August. This spring semester, IAIA will to draw on his own tradition, the Indian showcase artwork by former and present offer a class, Lloyd Kiva New and the artist evolves art forms which are new to IAIA faculty and alumni such as Fritz Contemporary Native Art Movement, the cultural scene, thereby contributing Scholder, Neil Parsons, T.C. Cannon, taught by IAIA archivist Ryan Flahive uniquely to the society in general.” Melanie Yazzie, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie with various guest lecturers. i MIAC’s exhibition highlights how and Will Wilson.

24 Green Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com carried, along with other sacred items, hold ceremonies and discussions with The Longest Walk 2016 across the country to Washington, D.C. tribal leaders. They will participate in a conference with governors of the The 2016 Longest Walk left California Northern Pueblos and health and on Feb. 13. This year’s walk is part behavioral-health professionals at of a war on drugs, suicide and other Buffalo Thunder Resort, in Pojoaque. traumatic crises that Native people are currently grappling with. The walkers The Walk is a registered nonprofit will arrive at the Arizona-New Mexico 501(c)(3) organization. Donations of border on March 15. They will cross food, medical attention and supplies into Zuni Pueblo and then proceed such as new socks, running shoes, water to Gallup and Albuquerque, stopping and energy snacks are needed . for rest at Laguna. Tentative dates for To contribute or participate, contact Santa Fe are from March 29 to April Donald Pena of San Ildefonso Pueblo 2, then on to Pojoaque, Fort Sumner at 505.570.7508 or Judy Bell at and into Texas. They plan on arriving in 505.819.9357 or bellestarr99@yahoo. Washington, D.C., on July 15. com. More information on The Longest The walkers have invited community Walk 5: War on Drugs and Domestic members to join them as relay runners Violence can be found on Facebook. i

hat started as a response to facing our people and the issues facing what was considered anti- our Earth are connected,” Banks said. IndianW legislation became a way for “They both are from thinking that does Native Americans to assert Indigenous not value people or the Earth. As Native sovereignty rights and change the way Americans, we say that all life is sacred, they thought about their responsibilities and we will speak as the conscience as Native people. of our Earth as we journey across the United States.” The Longest Walk was originally conceived of by American Indian In 1978, The Longest Walk began with Movement (AIM) co-founder Dennis a ceremony on Alcatraz Island, where Your Confidence starts with a Beautiful Smile… Banks and Bill Wahpepah. “The issues a pipe was filled. That pipe was then

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26 Green Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com Protecting New Mexico’s Wetland Gems Rachel Conn

migos Bravos and Western Environmental Law Center are working to identify and protect important wetlands in the Carson and Santa Fe national forests inA northern New Mexico. These “Wetland Gems” have been defined using recently mapped statewide wetland data. Working with GeoSpatial Services of St. Mary’s University in Minnesota, the data have identified specific wetlands types, wetlands significant for specific functions and wetlands meeting certain locational criteria:

• Headwater wetlands • Headwater wetlands that discharge to a stream • Spring-fed wetlands • Headwater wetlands connected to known cold-water fish-bearing streams • Wetlands that perform surface-water detention • Wetlands that perform streamflow maintenance Volunteers hiking down to do restoration work at • Wetland complexes considered to be important for wildlife habitat Midnight Meadows, a Carson Wetland Gem

Eight Wetland Gems have been identified and mapped in the Carson National Wetlands are often called the “kidneys of the landscape” because of their functions Forest. An interactive pdf of these can be downloaded at http://amigosbravos. as receivers of water and waste from natural and human sources. They have many org/on-the-ground-restoration. A process is now under way to identify Wetland attributes that help improve water quality: Gems in the Santa Fe National Forest. 1. Reduction of the speed of the water entering a wetlands allows sediments and chemicals in the sediments to drop out of the water column 2. Anaerobic and aerobic processes that occur in wetlands promote denitrification, chemical precipitation and other chemical reactions that remove certain chemicals from the water 3. High rates of mineral uptake by wetland vegetation along with a high rate of burial in sediments when the plants die 4. High diversity of decomposers and decomposition processes 5. Large areas of shallow water leading to significant sediment-water exchange 6. Accumulation of peat that allows for the permanent burial of chemicals

Wetlands are critical to the food chain and biodiversity; a significant percentage of terrestrial animals use wetlands for a portion of their lifecycle. Wetlands in New Mexico provide critical habitat for fish, fur animals and waterfowl and support recreational fishing and hunting.

Why Are New Mexico Wetlands Important? Wetlands provide significant economic, social, and cultural benefits. For example, healthy wetland systems can help maintain sustained flows in rivers, streams and acequias. Wetlands, functionally, are the sponges of watersheds. They soak up floodwaters and snowmelt, and, then, when a stream begins to drop below its normal level, they drain back into the main stream and augment the flow. This slow release can provide crucial flow to downstream communities during dry times of the year. As wetlands dry up, they no longer provide a myriad of ecosystems services. Looking down at Serpent Lake, a Carson Wetland Gem

Wetlands can also help recharge groundwater supplies. Recharge from wetlands At the global level, wetlands contribute to the stability of global levels of available occurs primarily around the edges of wetlands. This means that even small wetlands, nitrogen, atmospheric sulfur, carbon dioxide and methane. They are also important which have a high edge-to-volume ratio, despite being small in size, can provide sinks for carbon and are critical in increasing a landscape’s resilience and ability important groundwater-recharge functions. to adapt to climate change.

Wetlands also mitigate flooding. During the intense spring runoff that northern New Mexico Wetlands Are Threatened New Mexico experiences from the mountains throughout the region, wetlands New Mexico is the fifth-largest U.S. state, totaling an area of 122,000 square miles. However, less than 1 percent of these lands—482,000 acres—is covered moderate spring stream flows by providing natural storage for surface water. continued on page 28 www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • March 2016 27 Wetland Gems continued from page 27 in wetlands and riparian areas. This is over one-third less than the 720,000 acres of New Mexican wetlands that existed in the 1780s. During the last century, the Río Grande, New Mexico’s major watercourse, was significantly channelized to minimize flooding and control the discharge of irrigation waters. This channelization has eliminated the river’s natural course and flow and has severely limited the water-land relationship that would normally have allowed establishment of wetland vegetation along river corridors throughout New Mexico. Instead, there are degraded banks that contribute to severe soil erosion, sediment buildup in rivers and reservoirs and the loss of habitat for fisheries, waterfowl and wildlife.

Many wetlands in our headwaters are suffering. Impacts from climate change, roads, off-road vehicle use and ungulate grazing—cows, deer and elk—all contribute to wetland degradation. These stressors cause erosion in the form of headcuts and channelization that result in the draining of these wetland systems. As a result, many of the wetlands in the Santa Fe and Carson national forests are drying up and are encroached upon by dry-land woody species. Kids standing in front of wet meadows in the As wetlands dry up, they lose Valle Vidal, northwest of Cimarrón, NM their ability to act as sponges and no longer provide the myriad of ecosystems services such as wildlife habitat, stream-flow maintenance and flood control. Wetlands Provide Ecological and Cultural Resiliency Resiliency is the capacity of an ecological or community system to maintain its function in the face of stress. A system with high resiliency withstands and bounces back from stress better than a system with low resiliency. Wetlands and other waters originating on national forests in northern New Mexico function as core, essential ecological elements of the broader Río Grande watershed. Emphasizing protection and restoration of these water resources can improve resiliency and thereby have significant, positive impacts on social, economic and ecological sustainability across the watershed and broader landscape.

New Mexico’s water supplies are severely threatened by impacts from climate change. Over the next few decades, snowpack is predicted to be smaller and to melt faster. In addition, weather events are predicted to be more extreme, resulting in increases of both droughts and floods. Wetlands are uniquely capable of providing resiliency in the face of both of these extreme weather events. In addition, wetlands, when well managed, have the best capacity of any ecosystem to retain carbon through permanent sequestration but, when not well managed, contribute to climate change by emitting methane to the Earth’s atmosphere. Stopping further degradation and loss of New Mexico’s wetlands can decrease future methane emissions. Get Involved! If you support protecting Wetland Gems under the planning updates that are under way in the Santa Fe and Carson National Forests, let the Forest Service know. Email [email protected] and [email protected]

Amigos Bravos and Western Environmental Law Center are hosting a Santa Fe National Forest Wetland Gems Workshop on March 21, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Call 575.758.3874, or email [email protected] to RSVP. i Rachel Conn is projects director of Amigos Bravos. 575.758.3874, [email protected], www.amgiosbravos.org

28 Green Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com Healing Allergies from the Inside Out Japa K. Khalsa

enjoy and bask in the warm weather, endurance and flexibility. It is actually your body’s complex self-regulatory clean air and beautiful skies of New fairly easy to deplete Ojas in our lives system. When you breathe through Mexico,I but I feel for so many people because overwork, burnout and lack of the left nostril you activate right- here who suffer from seasonal allergies. balance are shared cultural tendencies hemisphere thinking, and when you The pollen counts rise, and the winds in the United States. Rampant breathe through the right nostril you pick up in the springtime, as do sneezes, consumerism and attitudes of keeping activate left-hemisphere thinking. runny noses and irritated eyes. The up with the Joneses/Martínezes are Right-nostril breath activates the beautiful mountains of New Mexico breeding grounds for habits that lead sympathetic nervous function and is have large forests of cedar, juniper and to depleted energy or Ojas. considered warming and energizing. piñón trees. These gorgeous conifers Left-nostril breathing (great to practice Luckily, Ojas can be restored in many pollinate twice a year, and the pollens before bed) is cooling and calming. If ways. Bring the emphasis back to self- can spread as far as 100 miles on a you consciously control this interlock care, and curb the mind’s tendency windy day. Pollination months are through a breath practice, you can to compete and compare by teaching This is one full cycle of this breath January to March, as well as September overwrite scripted nervous-system oneself to calm the internal. pattern. Now, continue for several and October, but the dry winds of messages and guide your body in the minutes and do this daily. It is the spring can continue to spread old direction of internal balance. Breathe for Relief conscious repetition of this practice pollen around well into summer. Hey, it’s Free! that creates the benefits. The Basics Dr. Andrew Weil often speaks of how The number-one way to benefit Ojas is So what can be done to help relieve breath exercises are free, available through increasing rest and relaxation allergy symptoms? You may already to anyone, easy to do and have a in the body because this is what allows know the basics: Cut down on generally beneficial effect on all kinds for the body’s self-healing mechanisms inflammation-producing foods like of chronic complaints. He believes to awaken. True rest and relaxation wheat and sugar, and increase your that patterned and repetitive breath can be reinforced through a practice veggies and fresh fruit. Consider adding exercises recondition the endocrine and of breath work or pranayama, where nettle leaf, quercetin and borage oil or nervous system messages in the body. healing can occur from the inside out. other fatty acids. Or drop by Herbs, There are many choices of breath If your nose is stopped up owing to a Etc. in Santa Fe and other locations, patterns. If you have allergies and high pollen count, don’t blame the great and pick up the all-encompassing your nose is stopped up, just work outdoors. Instead, take yourself through wonder formula, Allertonic®. with yourself. Usually, one nostril will some alternate-nostril breathing or Awakening the body’s still be able to tolerate airflow, so just long deep breathing (breathe long, slow breathe long and deeply through that and deep through both nostrils). self-healing mechanisms side of your nose and close your eyes. One Ojas-Boosting The point is, there are many ways to Do this every day, either the right or Recipe address these problems, but let’s also left nostril, breathing until allergy Here is one easy recipe for self- contemplate the root cause of allergies. The heart of restoration of Ojas is a season is over and your nose clears up. healing: tahini is a famous seed in The external pollen is an irritant, so regular breath or meditation practice Then, pick up the daily habit of a few Eastern medicine for restoring the how can we adjust on the inside so because this calms the mind and sets minutes of alternate-nostril breathing that our response is different? We the direction towards self-healing. every day, and see how this helps you can make external changes to our Alternate-nostril breathing is a simple reduce your symptoms by the next symptoms to provide some relief, but way to calm the breath, the mind and time allergy season rolls around. Here lasting relief comes from treating the the entire nervous and endocrine is how to do it: root cause of the issue. Remember, all connection to produce greater health. healing ultimately comes from within. Ancient yogis believed that an Alternate-Nostril In Ayurvedic and Eastern medicine, imbalance in the right and left cycle Breathing First, press your right thumb onto your the root cause of allergies is depletion of the breath through the nose was the right nostril to close it. Now, inhale of Ojas, also known as kidney Qi or cause of disease. Your brain and nervous slowly through the left nostril. Pause Prana. Whatever name we call it, our system automatically cycle through the and suspend the breath for a second; essential life force must be replenished. right and left nasal passages as a way now, switch and close the left nostril If we can restore our basic vitality, we of maintaining balance between the with the ring finger and release the can heal allergies from the inside out. two hemispheres of the brain. If you thumb off the right nostril. check your nose right now, there is The Magic of Ojas one nostril that is dominant in terms Now, exhale completely and slowly Ojas is the precious internal substances of more airflow. Just place your hand through the right nostril. Next, inhale of our bodies: the hormones, underneath your nose and exhale. Feel through the right nostril. Pause for a neurotransmitters and cerebrospinal which nostril has a stronger outflow. moment as you press your thumb on fluid that flow together and give us body’s energy, and the fresh fruits Then, check again a few hours later. your right nostril and lift your ring adaptive competence and the ability and vegetables are tasty. So, put one Your body will have naturally switched finger. Breathe out through the left to respond to life’s challenges with to the opposite nostril. This is part of nostril. continued on page 35 www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • March 2016 29 Early College Opportunities continued from page 17 persuasively that our schools most closely resemble Industrial Age factories, with gardens, making their emphasis on specialization and the isolation of learning. The green-collar furniture, installing economy is a movement toward a sustainable economy, but it is also a movement solar panels, painting from dead-end blue-collar jobs for a permanent underclass to meaningful career murals, reading pathways and life-long learner traits for valued members of society. a captivating book out loud, playing Workforce readiness in ECO means mentoring, apprenticeship, character teambuilding games, development, rites of passage, self-reliance and a pragmatism that the world backpacking and of work brings to the learning process. When I taught sustainable design and cross-country skiing construction, I had a running segment called “What the Boss Is Thinking.” It was in remote areas, and a kind of reality check for students to get a sense of how work can be radically Luke Spangenburg, an instructor from Santa Fe Community going off in pairs or different from abstract education. College, an ECO School resource alone to reflect, draw Economic strength is about a resilient network of or journal write. In ECO, we want the schedule and the methodology to promote that kind of deep learning experience. small businesses and public institutions. As a rite of passage, we want students to sink their teeth into the learning and Core ECO partner and executive officer of the Santa Fe Area Homebuilders creating process and to develop endurance and concentration in ways that will Association, Kim Shanahan, says, “We don’t just need tradesmen and tradeswomen; serve them in a well-led workplace. we need young people with leadership and management skills, entrepreneurs and problem solvers, to grow and maintain Santa Fe’s aging but sophisticated green We want to bring mentoring and apprenticeship back into the mainstream of building sector.” the educational process. Time and time again, we have seen students shine and flourish when they have one or more healthy adult relationships that anchor them Learning Community as Extended Family emotionally, technically and intellectually. My most effective and meaningful school and work communities have functioned like extended families. When students, staff, parents and community partners feel These are, on one level, new and experimental ideas. They are also old practices a deep sense of support and belonging, great things happen. I’ve had students say that were abandoned when industrialization affected every corner of our modern they look forward to Monday, when they will be back in a supportive, safe and lives. In this sense, we are building on three of the traditions that make New engaging learning community/family. Mexico and Santa Fe so special and unique: valuing relationships, valuing place and balancing head, heart and hands. We will have check-ins, advisories, cohorts and regular rituals that are based on an asset rather than deficit approach to capacity building and belonging. Regular Finally, a new twist on an old adage. Everyone is now familiar with the saying appreciation events, sharing food, service work and proactive norms around that “it takes a village to raise a child.” But, as we in ECO reach out to you, our communication and conflict resolution, will be key to fostering the trust, joy and fellow villagers, we want to remind you that it also takes a child to raise a village. personalization that are essential to real belonging. During the last year and a half, I have worked with more than a dozen volunteers, like Dave Wahl, Bob Siegel, Alan Becker, Bruce Kohl and Roger Miller, who have, We will have a parent center on campus, a community garden and a series of in addition to making a difference in the lives of their mentees, been themselves workshops and skills exchanges for parents and extended family to share and transformed by the mentorship process. The work needed to close the achievement network, using our gathering spaces and shops. gap and to combat ecological illiteracy is the work that is needed to build a resilient A student success triangle consists of 1) peer culture, 2) home life and 3) school. and economically viable local community. With this in mind, I encourage you to The less healthy and supportive any leg of the triangle is, the higher functioning partner up or volunteer within the ECO learning community and help us reach the others must be to maintain student health. our quota of 100 partners and volunteers in our inaugural year. i One of the factors leading to declining student health and success is the erosion of family and the ascent of a mass media-fixated peer culture. While connecting To learn more, volunteer or enroll a student, call Dana with families is certainly an important part of a vital school, sometimes a school Richards at 505.690.5500, email [email protected]. becoming a healthy surrogate family and a center for the development of healthy nm.us or go to: http://www.sfps.info/index.aspx?nid=2227 peer culture is key to a child’s success. Dana Richards is acting principal of ECO: The Santa Fe Applied Science Magnet School. The New that is Old that is New ECO’s emphasis on sustainable technology is a big part of the innovation in what we teach, but equally important is the innovation in how we teach and learn. We complain about the lack of attention span that students possess, but we fragment education through an artificial schedule and through siloed subjects: a “do now” to control the restlessness at the beginning of class; an agenda on the wall because students don’t remember where they are at from one day or one class to the next; a staccato onslaught of bells and PA interruptions all through the day. They may create a superficial level of order and organization, but they don’t promote concentration or ownership. SupportingLocal Business in Southern New Mexico The ECO schedule is based on two influences: losing track of time and the real world of the workplace. 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30 Green Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com Op-Ed: A Public Bank for Santa Fe Nichoe Lichen

he crash of 2008 just keeps on 2017 by transferring $100 million of giving. We didn’t make it happen, public funds, presently in a multinational Tbut somehow it’s ours to fix. Historically, bank, into Santa Fe’s own Public Bank. governments look to raising taxes The bank’s first act of business would be and cutting jobs and services to “fix to refinance $45.5 million of the city’s the problem.” So it goes in the city of loan and bond debt at 4 percent. This Santa Fe this year. This may be a short- is a low-risk way to get a bank up and term necessity, given the city’s current running, and it would benefit the public financial crisis, but Banking on New as a whole. Most newly chartered banks Mexico believes the time is right for a expect to operate in the red for their first better long-term strategy that includes three years, but not our Santa Fe Public a public bank that will invest our public Bank. It sounds counterintuitive, but the funds—interest earned from those taxes, fact that the city has ample deposits and fees and fines we all pay—back into our a lot of debt makes it possible to put a community. public bank on solid financial ground in the first year. The city has to deposit our public funds in a chartered bank somewhere, so A source of revenue why not in our own public bank? Our community would be the bank’s only for the city that will shareholder. Bank loans would be to city not need to come and community projects, and the bank’s profits would benefit the public, not from a tax increase private shareholders. Our community’s In year one, the bank would make a cash might be safer too. modest profit of $500,000, and, by year five, the bank will have increased its Toward that end, the city commissioned lending to $90 million and made a profit a public-bank feasibility study, which of $10.5 million. Profits will continue to was released on Jan. 13. The study clearly grow as more debt is refinanced and new establishes that a public bank would lending happens in the community. This provide a strong economic benefit to is a source of revenue that will not need our community. to come from a tax increase! In 2015, the Brass Tacks Team of The public bank also will save the city Banking on New Mexico—a program $1 million in year one and reduce the of WeArePeopleHere!—completed a city’s total debt for that portfolio by Five-Year Model Supporting a Public almost $5 million (9 percent) over five Bank for Santa Fe. We took some of the years. Annual payments also would be debt confronting our city council and reduced, giving the city a little breathing staff and looked at what would happen room. The city typically bundles several public for bonds, and there are no bond fees or if we used it to get a public bank up and projects into a $20-million bond. Bonds prepayment restrictions. We all know Also in the first year, the bank would running. get repaid over a 15- to 30-year period. the miracle of lower-interest loans paid work with local banks and credit unions The public bank would open on July 1, Often, the city has to start paying back off over a shorter period of time saves to invest an additional $5 million the bond debt before projects are even money. to start growing ready to start. Bonds are expensive Cities across the United States are community because of required bonding fees, exploring the potential of a public bank resources such as dividends and the impact of paying for their community. They look to the affordable housing, interest over a long period of time. They example of the 97-year-old public Bank renewable energy also can’t be paid off early in the bond of North Dakota, founded by ranchers or entrepreneurial contract. Long payment periods greatly and farmers during some very tough startups. We increase the total cost. Interest from the times. They insisted their state follow anticipate that, as bonds in our study added 33 percent a higher, long-term vision of fairness the bank grows to the original bond cost; that is, a $20 and a more just economy for the people in experience, million bond becomes $27 million in of North Dakota. The BND has been this kind of total debt. participation turning a profit on behalf of the public with local banks A public bank can make smaller, for the past 40 years and has grown will increase shorter-term, lower-interest loans as into a giant that outperforms most substantially. projects become ready. Interest owed big banks. Its investment strategy is The Brass Tacks Team: Dan Metzger, Nichoe Lichen and Elizabeth Dwyer continued on page 35 would be less than half of what is paid www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • March 2016 31 Radiant NM continued from page 12 Water Efficiency Rating System Training at SFCC chickens roost and improve winter egg Santa Fe Community College’s EnergySmart production with free radiant heat. Academy has expanded its training to include water efficiency. The college is the first Julie and I have 20 tons of soil compacted institution in the country to offer Water over a 1-inch layer of insulation in our Efficiency Rating Score (WERS) training. home. Not only does this incredible massive flywheel heat our home for The Green Builder Coalition, Santa Fe Area days without sun in the winter; in the Home Builders Association, Build Green New summer, shaded from the sun, it cools Mexico and members of the city of Santa Fe Water Conservation Committee created water-modeling software that generates our home magnificently—for free. We a water-efficiency rating score in a detailed effort to measure water efficiency in Plants absorb radiant energy directly from don’t need to heat the air in our home, existing and newly constructed homes. Like the better-known Home Energy the sun and sun-heated earth. Radiant and often on winter days, we have the Rating System (HERS), WERS is a predictive calculation tool on a zero-to-100 solar heat is healthier than forced-air doors open to the outside enchantment. scale, with zero meaning no water is needed from a well or municipal system. It heat, which dries the air and creates analyzes indoor water usage, as well as rainwater and graywater usage. WERS turbulence patterns throughout a home. One rancher, in the early ’80s, built ratings (www.wers.us) provide a tool for builders and consumers to compare the Radiant heat does not remove humidity a collector that still today pumps water efficiency of a home and can tell a governmental jurisdiction how many from the air and does not use up oxygen solar-heated air through 2-inch pipes more homes can be built within a given water supply. The city of Santa Fe passed the way forced air does. imbedded in the cement slab of his a resolution calling for the addition of WERS to its green building code. The WERS tool has received national attention for its simple but effective innovation. through the collector, resulting in expansive workshop. He removed the warmer and warmer temperatures under woodstove he thought he would need. SFCC’s EnergySmart Academy is a nationally recognized training center specializing the floor, and transfers heat to the floor. As another example, a potato farmer in energy efficiency, green building and sustainable technology trainings. The academy I learned that a radiant floor does not built a system that blows hot air into a is initially offering theWER S training March 8–10, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The training prepares students to take the WERS written certification and practical exams. The directly heat the air of a home. The air is rock storage bin under his workshop. He called me one day to say he had his doors course covers many aspects of water efficiency in housing; however, participants are heated secondarily through “scrubbing” expected to have prior knowledge in landscaping and irrigation, basics of housing open to cool the building down. It was radiantly heated objects in the home construction and plumbing systems, building codes and alternative water sources. such as furniture and appliances. I also minus 25 degrees outside that morning. The cost for the training is $595. To register or to be notified of future trainings, learned that wood can hold more heat In Española, our nonprofit, the Heart than rock by weight. Wood has a higher contact Evelyn Gonzales at 505.428.1866 or [email protected]. For more Mind Alliance, has recently conducted information about the WERS training curriculum, contact Amanda Hatherly at “specific heat” than rock! So a home’s free workshops, open to the public, 505.428.1805 or [email protected] wood floor is a perfect place to store demonstrating how to build the latest solar heat for radiant release.

That same year, 1976, I immediately built a collector onto my house. My wife, Julie, and I decided to first have the solar-heated air directed to a water tank through an inexpensive stovepipe. Once the air heated our water, we could send the air back to the collector in the summer or, in the winter, channel it under our floor. Our $300 heating bills that first winter were reduced to no more than $30! We estimated the payback time on the solar system to have Loretta Atencio’s home is in Hernandez, been two months. New Mexico. Its hitch-mounted solar I was hooked on radiant energy. Julie and air heating system cost around $700, including the fan, ductwork and the I then built a Yanda-type greenhouse on reflective radiant insulation for the the south side of our home. The radiant perimeter of the crawlspace. Loretta long-wave energy released by the adobe loves being able to walk barefoot all wall of our house kept plants alive all winter long. She reports that she is using winter, while the air trapped by the half the amount of wood for heating that fiberglass glazing of the greenhouse was she had used in the past, even though recent winters have been colder. allowed to convectively flow into our living room, bringing not only oxygen- version of these do-it-yourself collectors. saturated warmth but humidity from Much more efficient than those we the plants. Our children played in mud built in the ’70s, the collectors cost just feet away from windblown snow about $700 in materials, including the piled against the clear greenhouse walls. radiant barrier insulation (about $200 to insulate the perimeter of a crawlspace) By building a no-cost adobe wall in to bounce back under the floor over 97 your yard, you can extend your garden’s percent of the radiant heat stored in growing season by four months. On the north side of the wall, you can have continued on page 35

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34 Green Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com Banking on NM continued from page 31 simple, conservative, and targets strategic, local this better stewardship of the people’s money. lending that benefits the public. North Dakota For more information about a public bank has more community banks per capita than any for Santa Fe, call 505.216.6376 or visit other state, and they are thriving because of the BankingOnNewMexico.org i support they receive from the BND. Nichoe Lichen has spent much of her life in local We can reduce the cost of city debt, increase environmental, civil rights and economic justice work. transparency of city funding and invest the In 2011, under the leadership of Craig Barnes, she helped bank’s profits back into our community. We call form the organization WeArePeopleHere!

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36 Green Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com NEWSBITEs The Southwest’s Drift into a Drier Climate The Specialty Crop Block Grant Program is funded by the U.S. Department of A new study has concluded that, despite a significant increase in precipitation in New Agriculture (USDA). “Chile, onions, pecans, honey, greenhouse/nursery crops and Mexico over the past year and a possible benefit through May from the moisture- lavender are examples of specialty crops, which means marketing and promotion inducing weather pattern known as El Niño, the southwestern United States has projects built around them could be considered for this funding,” said Felicia Frost, begun a shift into a drier climate. The three weather patterns that typically bring the NMDA marketing specialist who administers New Mexico’s share of these federal moisture are becoming more rare—an indication that human-caused climate change funds. The USDA’s definition and list of eligible specialty crops is online at http:// is pushing the region to become drier, a trend long-predicted by global models. www.usda.gov/documents/SPECIALTY_CROPS.pdf. Project length varies from one to three years. The deadline to apply is 5 p.m. MST on April 20. The funding What is now considered a normal year of rain and snow in the Southwest is one- becomes available Oct. 1. quarter drier than it was before the 1970s, according to the study. Andreas Prein, a postdoctoral researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), The second program, the New Mexico Agricultural Development and Promotion who led the study, said, “If you have a drought nowadays, it will be more severe because Funds Program (ADPFP), places no restrictions on the type of agricultural our base state is drier.” commodity that can benefit. The deadline to apply for funding for this program is 5 p.m. MDT on April 29. The funding becomes available July 1. Under ADPFP, project Record temperatures in February melted some of the mountain snowpack that New length cannot exceed one year. Mexico’s farmers and water resource managers depend on. Soil moisture tests indicate that some lands are already dry, raising concerns about grass fires. For both grant programs, projects are given greater consideration when they have what it takes to succeed beyond the life of the grant; in other words, if they make good The study was funded in part by the National Science Foundation. It was posted business sense over the long term. Both programs prohibit the use of grant funds online in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. It also found an opposite, though to purchase land, buildings, equipment or any other type of capital improvement. smaller, effect in theN ortheast, where some of the weather patterns that typically Funds are released only after the grantee has submitted a progress report, as well as bring moisture to the region are increasing. an invoice and corresponding receipts. Proposed Methane Rules The same project cannot be funded through both programs. NMDA staff is hosting Receive Diverse Support two free workshops for potential applicants to understand the programs and how to apply for them: Methane is the major constituent of natural gas. When oil and gas companies on • Santa Fe: March 18, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta public land allow methane to be leaked, burned or vented, it can not only negatively • Las Cruces: March 22, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the NMDA, 3190 South Espina St. impact air quality, climate and public health; it also represents an economic loss to taxpayers. For more information, call 575.646.4929 or visit www.nmda.nmsu.eduRunning Dry: Robert M. Bernstein, M.D., president of the New Mexico Chapter of Physicians for The Art of Seed Stewardship Social Responsibility, says that New Mexico is at particular risk from the health effects march 29, 6:30–8:30 pm, of methane due to the 2,500-square-mile cloud of the gas over the Four Corners santa fe farmers market pavilion region. That plume causes as much greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution in a year as ’ seven coal-fired power plants or as much as 14 times the annual emissions of New Kenneth Greene and his partners from the Hudson Valley Seed Library have created Mexico’s 700,000 cars. The methane well leak in Southern California, first detected innovative, cooperative partnerships among consumers, seed farmers and artists to on Oct. 23, was finally plugged in mid-February after sickening scores of people both tell the story of the seeds they steward and save the diversity of heirloom seeds, and prompting relocation of 6,600 households. It has been called the largest known many of which are disappearing rapidly. accidental methane release in U.S. history, equaling the annual GHG emissions of nearly 600,000 cars. On March 29, in Santa Fe, Greene will discuss the community seed library movement, in the United States and around the world, and efforts to put seed growing and The Obama administration has proposed cutting methane emissions from all stewarding back into the hands of farmers and small gardeners to save the seed- U.S. oil and gas production by nearly half over the next decade. In February, the collecting legacy. Greene will also have artist-designed seed packets and other Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) kicked off its materials for sale. public comment process for important new rules designed to reduce methane waste on federal and tribal lands. The new standards would complement the safeguards This event will take place at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Pavilion, 1607 Paseo de proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which apply to new Peralta. It is being presented by the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Institute. Admission sources of emissions on private lands. The BLM held hearings in Farmington, New is $10. For more information, call 505.983.7726. Mexico and Oklahoma City. Despite the fact that both are in the heart of oil and gas country, more than twice as many concerned citizens in Farmington and three times Horses Reconnect Veterans to Communities as many in Oklahoma City testified in support of BLM taking action on methane Horses for Heroes–New Mexico offers a horsemanship, wellness and skill-set than those who voiced opposition. At those hearings, Latino and tribal voices joined restructuring initiative in the high desert of Santa Fe called “Cowboy Up!” that is public-health professionals, veterans, taxpayer groups and environmental advocates offered at no charge to post-9-11 veterans and active military. HfH’s director, Nancy in voicing support for the proposal. De Santis, says that she is particularly interested in offering the program to those who have sustained post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to help them reintegrate After the hearings, 40 current and former elected officials—19 Democratic into their community. state lawmakers, county commissioners and mayors from around New Mexico, representing diverse constituencies—issued a letter to the BLM in support of the De Santis refers to PTSD as “post-traumatic spiritual dissonance” because she sees agency’s methane rules. The proposal would also allow local governments to recoup the affliction as a wound to the spirit. For others, she says, “It may be someone whose what would otherwise be lost revenue from flared gas that could have gone to improve active combat survival skills worked well in the field, but at home those skills aren’t schools, roads and other needed infrastructure. serving them well. The veteran may feel disconnected, dishonored or depleted.” HfH’s “Cowboy Up!” program is designed to help veterans develop new skills, Grant Funding to Expand resharpen others and reshape attitudes needed to transition into civilian life. New Mexico Agriculture “Standing in the presence of a majestic 1,200-pound horse makes one be aware of the nmda hosts workshops march 18 and 22 now and not be lost in a past memory or worry,” De Santis says. “Many of our warriors The New Mexico Department of Agriculture (NMDA) is inviting New Mexicans have been numbed by their experience of war. Horses can give energetic infusions involved in agricultural production to apply for funding through one of two grant that help reestablish a veteran’s connection to self, loved ones and the community.” programs. Both programs aim to develop new markets and/or expand existing ones for agricultural products grown in New Mexico. For more information on the nonprofit program, visit www.HorsesForHeroes.org

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March 24, 1:15–2:15 SANTA FE Monthly meeting to focus climate activism Raised Bed Gardening Through July 31 and enact politically palatable and effective Meadowlark Senior Center, 4330 Lloyd Kiva New: Art, Design solutions. [email protected] eadowlark a ío ancho M L . SE, R R and Influence March 12-13 Gardening with the Masters lecture. Free. useum of ontemporary ative SandovalMasterGardeners.org M C N Santa Fe Home Show rts athedral l A , 108 C P . SF Convention Center Exhibition honoring the late Cherokee art- March 26, 10:30 am–3 pm Northern NM’s premiere home show. Inno- ist/educator/IAIA director and his work. Cesar Chavez Day March & Fiesta vative solutions for better living. Remodel- (North Gallery continues through Sept. 11) ALBUQUERQUE ers showcase, Lego competition. Admission: Natl. Hispanic Cultural Center Plaza 505.983.1666, www.iaia.edu/museum. Through March Music, dancing, poetry, food, kids activities. $5. 505.982.1774, www.sfahba.com Natural Forces – The Wild www.cesarchaveznm.org Through Dec. 30 March 13, 11 am outh roadway ultural enter A New Century: The Life and S B C C April 2 Journey Santa Fe 1025 Broadway SE Legacy of Lloyd Kiva New Morning Conversation Photography exhibition by Stan Honda, Ken New Museum Opening Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Spencer, Charles Medendorp, Rush Dudley Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Collected Works Bookstore 710 Camino Lejo th t 202 Galisteo and Vance Ley. 2/4, 5-8 pm: opening recep- 2401 12 S . NW Fashion designs, art, photos and archival docu- A presentation by Joelle Marier on Keeping tion. 2/6 and 3/7, 10 am-12 pm: “Meet the The IPCC’s first new permanent exhibit in ments. 505.476.1269, indianartsandculture.org artists.” 505.918.2964, [email protected] 40 years: We Are of This Place: The Pueblo Wild BLM Lands Wild. Hosted by Alicia Story. Indianpueblo.org March 2, 5:30-6:30 pm Johnson of the NM Wilderness Alliance. March 3, 3-4:15 pm Climate Masters Lecture Free. 505.988.4226, www.journeysantafe.com Veteran Farmer Project Class April 24 onvention enter March 17-20 ernalillo ounty xtension La Montañita Co-op Earthfest SF C C B C E UNM Climatology professor Dr. David Meow Wolf Art Complex Gala ob ill o op entral Office classroom, 1510 Menaul NW N H C - , 3500 C SE Gutzler will present a free lecture on Cli- 1352 Rufina Circle Growing Organic: The hows and whys of Free community celebration. Environmen- mate Change in the Southwest. The lecture “House of Eternal Return” 3/17: Grand production and certification. Instructor: tal, economic and social justice, farming & is the first in a 10-week sustainability series opening gala ($250); 3/18-20: public opening Joan Quinn, NM Dept. of Agriculture. Free gardening booths, education, information, to be held Weds. from 5:30–7:45 pm. For ($25/$15). 505. 395.6369, Meowwolf.com to veterans, active service personnel and juried local artists, music, dance, plants and info on the full Climate Masters course, their families. Sponsored by La Montañita food. 877.775.2667 call 505.820.1696, email esha@santafewater March 18, 12–1:30 pm Co-op. Reservations/RSVP: 505.217.2027 shed.org or visit www.santafewatershed.org or [email protected] May 19-20 MoCNA Reader: A Book Club Economy Town Hall March 4, 8:30 am-2:30 pm Museum of Contemporary March 6-13 ABQ Marriott Pyramid Fruit Growers’ Workshop Native Art, 2nd Fl. Restaurant Week ABQ New Mexico First will hold a statewide town A discussion about the new publication The SF Fairgrounds Building 7th annual event includes numerous local Sound of Drums: A Memoir of Lloyd Kiva New hall on NM’s economic security and vital- odeo d restaurants offering a prix-fixe dinner and ity, to develop practical recommendations for 3229 R R . with the editor. Irrigation, soil health, integrated pest man- specially priced 2-course lunch. policymakers. Registration: www.nmfirst.org agement, planting, research updates. Light NMrestaurantweek.com March 18, 5-8 pm Opening Daily lunch provided. Info: 505.852.4241. Regis- “Woman” Photography March 8, 6 pm Natl. Hispanic Cultural Center tration: 505.685.4523, http:rsvp.nmsu.edu/ Group Exhibition Forum on the 2015 PNM Rate Case rsvpfruitgrowers2016 1701 Fourth St., SW Edition One Gallery, 1036 Canyon Rd. So. Broadway Cultural Center El Retrato Nuevomexicano/New Mexican March 6, 11 am In celebration of Women’s History Month, 1025 Broadway SE Portraiture Now, group show of paintings, Journey Santa Fe an exhibition expressing womanhood in many The Climate Coalition, the Sierra Club and drawings and photographs. Staging the Self/ Morning Conversation forms. 505.570.5385, www.editionone.gallery other organizations want you to know about Ponerse en Imagen, portraiture by NM art- ollected orks ookstore PNM’s proposal. ists. Through March 27. Closed Mondays. C W B March 22–April 9 Nationalhispaniccenter.org 202 Galisteo Community Workshop Series March 12, 9 am-12 pm A presentation by Prosperity Works director Through 2016 Ona Porter, hosted by Alan Webber. Pros- Railyard Park Community Room April 2, 16, 9 am-12 pm behind ite Las Huertas Farming perity Works conducts research and partners S SF May 14, 9 am-12 pm Learn relevant gardening techniques from a Backyard Farming Series Training Courses with local organizations to help working families move into the middle class. Free. team of experts. All ages welcome. Also, Com- Gutérrez-Hubbell House Bernalillo County Ext. Office 505.988.4226, www.journeysantafe.com munity Food Garden applications now being 6029 Isleta SW 1510 Menaul NW accepted. 505.316.3596, [email protected] Successful Soil Practices and the Role of Intro to Horticulture in Aridlands covers March 6, 1 pm Water. Learn the basics needed to plan and basics of farming in NM’s varied climate Poetry Out Loud March 22, 12–3:30 pm World Water Day Event design your home garden landscape focusing and seasons. Other classes offered include useum of rt t rancis Growing Techniques, Summer Growing NM M A , S . F on sustainability, permaculture and wise use uditorium alace ve Medicine Water Wheel, Frenchy’s Park Season (farm visits), Business management A , 107 W. P A . of our limited natural resources. Info/regis- NM Finals. Free admission. www.nmarts. Ceremony (3:30 pm), presentations and and planning. [email protected], tration: 505.314.0398, www.berncom.gov/ org, www.poetryoutloud.org water-related organizations’ information openspace http://riograndefarm.org/farmer-training- tables. 575.770.1228. farm-incubator/ March 7-8, 7 pm March 12, 3 pm Banff Mountain Film Festival March 23 A Thousand Voices “ABQ 2030 District” Gabrielle Walker The Lensic Indian Pueblo Cultural Center A voluntary collaboration of commercial with Chris Williams property tenants, building managers, prop- Adventure, environmental and cultural 2401 12th St. NW The Lensic erty owners and developers; real estate, films. Hosted by the SF Conservation Trust. This event is part ofW omen as Creators & 505.988.1234, ticketssantafe.org Lannan Foundation Literary Series. Walker Keepers of Tradition weekend at the IPCC. energy, and building sector professionals, is an author and expert on climate change and Free. 505.843.7270, indianpueblo.org lenders, utility companies; and public stake- March 11, 6:30–8:30 pm the energy industry. Author Chris Williams holders such as government agencies, non- Eldorado Methane Forum an environmental activist. www.lannan.org March 22, 6-7:30 pm profits, community groups and grassroots NM Solar Energy Assn ABQ organizers. Property partners share anony- La Tienda Performance Space March 24, 10 am Chapter Meeting mous utility data and best practices. Profes- Eldorado, NM NM Acequia Commission mtg. sional partners provide expertise and ser- Includes a panel discussion, Q&A and REI, 1550 Mercantile NE vices. Public partners support the initiative screening of the film The Other Greenhouse Bataan Memorial Bldg., Red Room, Learn how to transition to a more sustain- as it overlaps with their own missions. Info: Gas. Sponsored by 350.org 407 Galisteo St. able lifestyle. Meets bi-monthly on the [email protected] Agendas: 505.827.4983 or www.nmace- fourth Tuesday of March, May, July, Sept. March 12, 10 am–12 pm quiacommission.state.nm.us, Info: and Nov. [email protected], www. Citizen’s Climate Lobby 505.603.2879, [email protected] NMSolar.org La Montañita Co-op, 913 W. Alameda

38 Green Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com March 29, 6:30–8:30 pm Affordable living in SF? health featuring many distinguished speak- March 15, 5 pm MDT The Art of Seed Stewardship Join in to design and build mixed-use Santa ers and local practitioners. Presented by the Application Deadline SF Farmers’ Market Pavilion Fe infill. Topics examples: Flexible 350 sq. ft. UNM School of Medicine’s Section of Inte- Native Agriculture & Food 1607 Paseo de Peralta micro-units, clusters with shared facilities, grative Medicine, Continuing Medical Edu- Systems Grants Presentation by Ken Greene of the Hudson cooperative ownership. Info/RSVP: http:// cation & Professional Development, Ari- Proposals accepted from Native commu- Valley Seed Library presented by the SF bit.ly/1ibd3LN zona Center for Integrative Medicine and nities and Native American-controlled Farmers’ Market Institute. $10. 505.983.7726 Gaples Institute for Integrative Cardiology. nonprofit organizations interested in con- Foundation of Herbal 505.272.3942, http://som.unm.edu/cme Medicine Course ducting food sovereignty or community April 6, 4–11 pm food assessments. www.firstnations.org/ Earth Consciousness Milagro School of Herbal Medicine HERE & THERE grantmaking/2016FSA & the Lore of the Amazon Enrollment is open for 250-hour intensive Through April 15 focusing on regional herbs and traditions. March 17, 6-7:30 Synergia Ranch Seedling Sale for Spring Symposium/salon. Conversations with Ralph Course starts April 5. 505.820.6321, info@ NM Solar Energy Assn. Meeting milagroherbs.com, www.milagroschool The NM State Forestry Division seedling Metzner, Dennis McKenna, Rick Doblin and Public Library, Oregon Ave. ofherbalmedicine.com program has more than 65,000 seedlings in others. Symposium 4–6:30, followed by dinner 50 different species available for purchase. Alamogordo, NM and evening salon with visionary art, poetry, Santa Fe Recycling Containerized and bare-root stock. Distri- The Alamogordo chapter usually meets on music & dance. www.synergeticpress.com bution begins March 7 and ends April 22. the third Thursday of the month. ronoffley@ Make 2016 the year to reduce, reuse and recy- gmail.com April 8-9 cle as much as you can. City residential curb- Info: [email protected], To order: New Mexico Mission of Mercy side customers can recycle at no additional www.nmforestry.com March 18 Application Deadline cost and drop by 1142 Siler Road, Building SF Convention Center March 2 and 9, 9:30 am-12 pm Venture Acceleration Fund A, to pick up free recycling bins. For more in- Resilience in NM Agriculture The convention center will be transformed formation, visit http://www.santafenm.gov/ The Regional Development Corporation into a 120-chair free dental clinic to provide trash_and_recycling or call 505.955.2200 Farmington and Tucumcari, NM VAF provides seed financing for early-state first-come, first-served care to anyone with oral (city); 505.992.3010 (county); 505.424.1850 Farmers, ranchers, processors, distributors, technology startups. The fund was estab- health issues. Community volunteers will work (SF Solid Waste Management Agency). market organizers, policymakers and ad- lished by Los Alamos National Security, alongside 400 dental professionals. Presented vocates are invited to participate creating a LLC. Technology and manufacturing firms by the NM Dental Association Foundation. To Sustainable Growth Manage- strategic plan for NM’s food and agricultural that demonstrate their ability to stimulate volunteer, provide a donation or for more infor- ment Plan for SF County system. Presented by NMSU County Ex- job growth and attract additional revenue mation, contact [email protected] or in the counties of Los Alamos, Santa Fe, Hard copies $20, CDs $2. Contact Me- tension Service and NM First. A free lunch visit www.nmdentalfoundation.org will be served. Regional meeting for Farm- Sandoval, Río Arriba, Taos, San Miguel and lissa Holmes, 505.995.2717 or msholmes@ Mora are eligible. www.rdcnm.org April 15, 7 pm santafecounty.org. The SGMP is also avail- ington on March 2; Tucumcari on March 9. 16th Annual Nuestra Musica able on the county website: www.santaf- Reservations required. 505.225.2140, info@ March 29, 6–7:30 pm ecounty.org/growth_management/sgmp nmfirst.org, nmfirst.org/events/resilience- The Future of Our Forests The Lensic and can be reviewed at SF Public libraries in-new-mexico-agriculture Songs and stories celebrating NM’s diverse Los Alamos Nature Center and the County Administrative Building, March 6-8 musical heritage. $10. Seniors no charge. 102 Grant Ave. 2600 Canyon Rd., Los Alamos, NM 505.988.1234, ticketssantafe.org 50th Annual Pecan Conference Los Alamos Climate Change Lecture Series. Un- Las Cruces, NM derstanding the impact of drought, wildfire and April 22, 2:30 pm Taos infestation. Free. www.losalamosnature.org Earth Day and Solar Panel Through March Trade show and conference hosted by Fiber Rocks! NMSU’s Cooperative Extension Service. April 12-13 Ribbon Cutting www.westernpecan.org acienda de los artínez 2016 NM Public Health Acequia Madre Elementary School H M Join students, staff, the Global Warming Ex- 708 Hacienda Rd. March 10, 1:30-4 pm Association Conference press and many others to celebrate the new solar Fiber Art Exhibition honoring the Mesa- Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop Las Cruces Convention Center Prieta petroglyphs. Sponsored by the Espa- panel shade structure at the school. The ribbon lcalde enter lcalde Las Cruces, NM ñola Valley Fiber Arts Center. 505.747.3577, NMSU A C , A , NM cutting will follow the school’s annual Fund Presentations on pruning basics fol- Public Health Beyond Borders: History, In- www.evfac.org Run and a barbecue in the school garden. lowed by hands-on session in the field. tersections and Solutions. www.nmpha.org/ event-2140490 April 29, 8:45–10:45 pm Through March 6 Free. Info: 505.685.4523, Registration: Restaurant Week Taos 505.852.4241, rsvp.nmsu.edu/rsvp/alcalde- 2016 Outdoor Vision Fest treepruning#sthash.loagADa4.dpuf Wednesdays, 9:30 am SFUAD Campus, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr. 7th annual event includes numerous local res- Green Hour Hike taurants offering a prix-fixe dinner and specially The school and Currents NM present stu- March 10, 6-8 pm Pajarito Environmental priced 2-course lunch. Nmrestaurantweek.com dent/faculty/staff-created video projections, NM Solar Energy Assn. Meeting Education Center interactive multimedia and art installations March 5, 2 pm Little Toad Pub backroom 2600 Canyon Rd., Los Alamos, NM and animation. Free. Inventing the Old Spanish Silver City, NM Kid-centered treks; as weather allows. Free. Regis- tration: 505.662.0460, [email protected] Saturdays, 8 am-1 pm National Trail through Taos Monthly meeting of the NMSEA-Silver Santa Fe Farmers’ Market City chapter. Held every second Thursday. Taos Electric Co-op Boardroom 575.538.1137, [email protected] Wednesdays in March, 6-8 pm 1607 Paseo de Peralta (& Guadalupe) 118 Cruz Alta Rd. Gallup Solar Community Meetings Northern NM farmers & ranchers offer Free lecture by Mark Henderson offers his- March 11 Application Deadline 113 E. Logan Ave., Gallup, NM fresh greenhouse tomatoes, greens, root veg- torical background on the Spanish Trail. Governor’s Environmental The nonprofit Gallup Solar hosts educa- gies, cheese, teas, herbs, spices, honey, baked 575.779.8579, [email protected], www. Excellence Awards 2016 tional presentations and potential solutions taoshistoricalsociety.org. Presented by the goods, body care products and much more. Categories: Resource stewardship, water for all things solar. Questions, ideas and Taos Historical Society. www.santafefarmersmarket.com resource protection, wildlife & ecosystem expertise are welcome. 505.728.9246, gallup [email protected], www.gallupsolar.org Saturdays, Sundays March 15 Entry Deadline stewardship, environmental education & El Museo Winter Market The Paseo Festival outreach, youth projects, and environmental leader of the year. Presented by the NM Etsy Craft Entrepreneurship El Museo Cultural, 555 Cam. de la Familia Streets of Taos Environment Dept., Energy, Minerals and Workshops Handmade crafts, jewelry, collectibles and A festival on Sept. 23-24 dedicated to the Natural Resources Dept., Dept. of Game & Española, Taos, Las Vegas, Mora antiques. Sat: 9 am-4 pm; Sun: 8 am-3 pm. art of installation, performance and projec- Fish, Office of the State Engineer and Office Workshop series for northern NM residents Elmuseoculturalwintermarket.org tion. Stipends provided. http://nmarts.org/ of the Governor. www.env.nm.gov/OOTS/ to help creative entrepreneurs start an online current-opportunities/ GEEA/index.html Sundays, 10 am-4 pm shop on Etsy to sell handmade products and create supplemental income. All workshops Railyard Artisan Market March 16, 5:30-8 pm March 15 Application Deadline Taos Entrepreneurial Network 10 am–4 pm. March 9, 16, 23, 30: Española; Farmers’ Market Pavilion Heritage Preservation Awards April 1, 8, 15, 22: Las Vegas; April 7, 14, 21, 28: 1607 Paseo de Peralta Old County Courthouse, 121 N. Plaza Nominations are sought by the Cultural Taos; April 29, May 6, 13, 20: Mora. Presented Local artists, textiles, jewelry, ceramics, live Monthly meeting (every 3rd Weds.). Keynote Properties Review Committee and the NM by WESST. 505.474.6556, [email protected] music. 505.983.4098, Francesca@santafe and presentations by local speakers, exhib- Historic Preservation Div., Dept. of Cul- farmersmarket.com, artmarketsantafe.com its of products and services. 575.921.8234, tural Affairs for achievements in architectur- LANL Foundation [email protected] al preservation, archaeology and publishing. Educational outreach small grants up to $1,500 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 5:30-7 pm July 11-14 Awards recognizing organizations and indi- monthly for school districts and nonprofits Design Lab for Sustainable viduals who have made a difference in saving with programs to strengthen teaching and Neighborhoods Integrative Medicine part of their community’s past are presented learning in Los Alamos, Mora, Río Arriba, San Professionals Symposium Higher Education Center in May. Nmhistoricpreservation.org Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe and Taos counties. 1950 Siringo Rd., Rm. 139 Sagebrush Inn 505.753.8890, [email protected] 7th Biennial symposium on integrative www.GreenFireTimes.com Green Fire Times • March 2016 39 Green40 Fire Times • March 2016 www.GreenFireTimes.com