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July/August 2020 Can We Create a More Sustainable World? JULY/AUGUST 2020 CAN WE CREATE A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD? • Native Americans Can Help Heal America • Building Immunity for Strong Communities • Resilient Design and Planning • Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again VOLUME 12 NUMBER 3 GREENFIRETIMES.COM Congratulations 2020 New Mexico Graduates! YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD. WE CAN HELP. This year’s graduates will shape the future, and bring fresh perspectives and new ideas. A degree from Northern New Mexico College can help you realize your dreams and empower you to make a difference. FIND YOUR FUTURE @ NORTHERN NEW MEXICO COLLEGE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Broaden your perspective, build self-awareness and develop effective skills to help your community heal and thrive. • AA Substance Abuse Counselor • AA Criminal Justice • BAIS Crime & Justice Studies General Psychology, Humanities & Self-Design BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Explore the natural world, engage in key research, and gain essential skills to address the scientific challenges facing our communities and the planet. • AS & BS in Environmental Science • Biology/Ecology & Evolution • Molecular & Cellular Biology • Biology/Pre-Health NURSING AND BECOME A HEALTH SCIENCES NORTHERN EAGLE! Consider a career in healthcare. JOIN US ONLINE Develop the skills to care for @NORTHERN THIS FALL patients in a variety of settings, for a safe, affordable, quality and learn about holistic education...close to home. community health. Financial aid options available. • Allied Health Certificate • Practical Nurse Aide Certificate CALL 505 747.2111 or • Associate Degree Nursing (RN) VISIT NNMC.EDU • Accredited, holistic and fully online RN to BSN program. FOLLOW US! GREEN FIRE TIMES News & Views from the Sustainable Southwest VOLUME 12 NO. 3 JULY/AUGUST 2020 CONTENTS LOOKING TO THE FUTURE – SETH ROFFMAN / 4 OP-ED: MACEO CARILLO MARTINET / PANDEMIC – MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE / 5 CAN WE CREATE A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD IN THE AFTERMATH OF COVID-19? – KATHERINE MORTIMER / 6 THE FUTURE OF TOURISM MOVEMENT / 7 INDIGENOUS GROUPS CALL FOR REMOVAL OF SANTA FE MONUMENTS AND STATUE – SETH ROFFMAN / 9 NATIVE AMERICANS FEEL ALL SIDES OF AMERICA’S ANGST. THEY CAN ALSO HELP HEAL AMERICA. – HILARY C. TOMPKINS / 10 CORONA VIRUS AND ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS – CHILI YAZZIE / 11 EVERYDAY GREEN: BUILDING IMMUNITY FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES – SUSAN GUYETTE / 12 SOY NORTEÑA – MARGARET CAMPOS / 15 LOCAL FOOD SECURITY FOR COMMUNITIES / 17 RESILIENT DESIGN AND PLANNING – ANTHONY GUIDA AND NICKY RHODES / 19 SANTA FE RECOGNIZED AS GLOBAL LEADER WITH LEED GOLD CERTIFICATION / 21 WATER NEWSBITES / 23 ENERGY NEWSBITES / 24 BOOK PROFILE: ORIGINAL POLITICS – MAKING AMERICAN SACRED AGAIN / 27 WHAT’S GOING ON / 30 PUBLISHER GREEN EARTH PUBLISHING, LLC EDITOR-IN-CHIEF SETH ROFFMAN / [email protected] DESIGN WITCREATIVE COPY EDITOR STEPHEN KLINGER CONTRIBUTING WRITERS MARGARET CAMPOS, ANTHONY GUIDA, SUSAN GUYETTE, MACEO CARRILLO MARTINET, KATHERINE MORTIMER, NICKY RHODES, SETH ROFFMAN, HILARY C. TOMPKINS, CHILI YAZZIE CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS JOAN COSTA, SETH ROFFMAN, KATE RUSSELL ADVERTISING SALES [email protected] PRINTED LOCALLY WITH 100% SOY INK ON 100% RECYCLED, CHLORINE-FREE PAPER GREEN FIRE TIMES © 2020 GREEN EARTH PUBLISHING, LLC C/O SOUTHWEST LEARNING CENTERS, INC. A NON-PROFIT EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION (EST.1972) 505-989-8898, P.O. BOX 8627, SANTA FE, NM 87504-8627 greenfiretimes.com COVER MEMBERS OF THREE SISTERS COLLECTIVE, ORGANIZERS OF THE PLAZA RALLY IN SANTA FE, CELEBRATING REMOVAL OF MONUMENTS THEY CONSIDER RACIST, ONSTAGE IN FRONT OF A SUPPORTIVE CROWD. JUNE 18, 2020. PHOTO © SETH ROFFMAN GREENFIRETIMES.COM 3 policies compel us to come up with solutions that we couldn’t even conceive of twenty years ago. But are these reliable long-term answers or merely quick fixes to our present dilemmas? Albert Einstein said that the solution to chal- lenges facing humanity can’t effectively be achieved by addressing them with the same level of consciousness that created the problems. Indigenous cultures have always respectfully accommodated their visionaries, who have felt free to share visions with their people. These visions, once taken to heart, determined policies and directions that enhanced lives and re- lationships, and in some cases, averted disasters. We offer Green Fire Times as a forum for these sorts of valuable insights. Come out of the closet, vision- aries! Your visions may be important tools we can use to set new intentions and directions to establish a more harmonious way of life for the good of our communities. ********* As massive protests COVID-19 and the erupted across the world decrying structural racism coinciding crises have and police brutality, at the same time as an ongoing global pandemic, tottering been a wakeup call for a economies and devastating climate changes, Native world out of balance. American protesters in New Mexico posed a question: Is our society’s obsessive worship at the altar of a patriarchal, colonial-era socio-economic system worth the destruction of our planet? We are living in a time of both great pain and great potential for change. For the first time, joining the millions of people of color, there has been a cho- rus of white people’s voices—people who have also grown tired of oppres- sion, injustice and the relentless drive toward collective annihilation. COVID-19 and the coinciding crises have been a wakeup call for a world out of balance—a “Great Shaking,” as Hopi elders have said. Indigenous leaders say that this pandemic is directly related to climate change, deforestation, the loss of biodiversity and the exploitation of cultures grounded in sustainabili- ty. A growing body of scientific research supports those claims. The pandemic shakeup gives us a chance to imagine and build a much better world. We are seeing a profound shift—socially, economically, health-wise, climate-wise, food-system-wise. What we do over the next 10 years will determine the fate of our species. Nothing should go back to “normal.” Normal wasn’t working. Corporations need to recalibrate. Harmful social structures that led to poor health outcomes can be dismantled or reorganized Native woman adds hand prints to art in order to build new structures that promote health and healing. project at the obelisk on Santa Fe’s plaza © Seth Roffman The crises have exposed deep inequities based on ethnicity and socio-eco- nomic status, and have highlighted just how vulnerable many people are. We may be in the sharpest recession in our nation’s history. Many who are unemployed are going to have to deal with increased debt. It’s going to be up to everyone to help each other. A positive aspect has been the way in which many have been stepping up to provide mutual aid and create a fabric of reciprocity that is sup- LOOKING TO THE porting our communities and enabling people to get through it. We can rebuild businesses, think about worker retraining, and look at supply chains and FUTURE consumption in order to foster an economy that exchanges goods and services among In the very first issue of this publication in 2009, the introductory article communities. We need to be conscious about preserving small businesses and encour- was titled, “Green Fire Times: Visionaries Wanted.” Here is an excerpt: aging new ones. It is incumbent on us to strategically invest in people and in creative ideas that support communities. We need to fuel a new wave of innovation while also We live in an unprecedented time of change. Deterioration of considering the wisdom of low-tech management strategies that have been passed down our environment, health, relationships and established economic through generations. 4 GREENFIRETIMES.COM JULY/AUGUST 2020 New Mexico has the potential to Human encroachment into tropical forests sets the stage for the spread of zoonotic diseases. become a model for redevelopment. New Mexico has the potential to become a model for redevel- opment. We can get young people involved in helping solve the problems of the day. We can prioritize those climate and sustainability projects, both short- and long-term, which best address historic injustices here in our state and in our country. An emergency network has emerged around food and hunger. COVID-19 has exposed how vulnerable our food system is. Policies and practices that favor corporate agribusiness, putting OP-ED: Maceo Carrillo Martinet rural families at risk, should be dismantled. Funding and tech- nical assistance should be prioritized for family and community farms. This will require the release of economic development PANDEMIC – MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE funding to rural communities, as well as regaining local control of water rights. If communities are free to develop their own assets and capacities, millions will not need to be spent on reme- Invisible Enemy dial and compensatory programs. When New Mexico’s governor issued a stay-at-home order, my daughter came home from school on what would unexpectedly be her last day of 5th grade. She asked me, “Do Chinese If we go back to the way things were, we will have lost the people really eat bats and dogs?” She had heard this from another student. Nothing is quite lessons. It may be that we can now collectively uncover what it as ground-truthing as the questioning of a young person trying to weed through the thorny means to be a human being and bring to the surface our perhaps and tangled branches of racism. In considering the origin of the coronavirus, there has been truer nature as beings with a vast potential to love, nurture, care a recycling of the history of blaming and punishing others, mainly non-Europeans, for all th for, celebrate and sustain the gift of life. ¢ the evils and sins of society. In the 19 century, Chinese immigrants brought to the U.S. and Europe to work on the railroad were accused of bringing in disease and denigrated as the SETH ROFFMAN, JULY, 2020 “yellow peril.” Similarly, in the 1930s, the Nazi state blamed Jews for bringing typhus and SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO social ills to Germany.
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