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Healing with Flowers
Feb 2nd
Susan Waterman
One of the greatest gifts of a garden and from nature is the healing power of flowers. Flower essences, imbued with the gentle subtle energies of the flowers and Mother Earth, are a readily accessible form of nature’s healing potency. Flower essences are a portal from nature into feeling comfortable with oneself and with others. They are made from freshly harvested blossoms, and the “active” element is the energetic imprint infused into pure water.
Flower essences help harmonize a wide of range disturbing energy patterns and sustain emotional and physical well-being. For example, there are particular essences that help More >
Reconnection Therapy: Sustainable Health for Our Times
Feb 2nd
Erin Sanborn
Throughout time, throughout cultures, there are always those born with the ability to heal, those who study how to heal, and those who, as they go through their lives, discover that they have the gift. That was what happened to Eric Pearl, a well-known chiropractor, when he began to wave his hands over a client’s body after a chiropractic adjustment and spontaneous healing began to occur. After years of exploration and scientific research into the phenomenon, Pearl began to teach others how to do the work of what he calls Reconnective Healing and The Reconnection.
I am a Reconnective Healing practitioner More >
Symptoms: Your Body’s Secret Healing Messages
Feb 2nd
Reorganizational Healing
Dr. Amanda Hessel
What does healing mean to you? Perhaps it is removal of a symptom, alleviation of pain or being cured of a disease or condition. Many people believe that this is what healing means. But, what if your symptom, pain, disease or condition is the answer you have been looking for and could be used to get you where you want to be in life? What if your symptom or condition has a message for you that could help you grow, gain deeper meaning and help you connect more to who you really are? There is a healing More >
Healing Through Horses
Feb 2nd
Seth Roffman
Healing Through Horses (HTH) is an Abiquiu, New Mexico-based program dedicated to healing the human spirit through the horse. “Horses have the ability to read you without saying a word,” says Judith Schneider, HTH’s director. “The horse has a way of deeply touching people’s hearts and spirits. The experience can have a profound effect on one’s healing process.” HTH offers a collaborative and alternative approach for those who have a desire to resolve past traumas, are willing to take an honest look at limiting beliefs, wish to embrace their mental and spiritual health in courageous manner, and are ready More >
Faren Dancer’s Unicopia Green: Planetary Healing Begins with Each One of Us
Feb 2nd
With an expanding sense of urgency resultant from so many important issues that are present in this time and space, each person needs to take a step back and determine the most efficient use of their energy and effort. If we choose a course of personal activism as a means of adding our voice to the exploding dynamic of public outcry, we are aligning in purpose with the need for cultural transformation. Still, many believe that nothing short of a paradigm shift in how we think, live and act, will bring about the necessary changes that will insure sustainability for More >
Op-Ed – Ingrid Lane: There is no Invisible Barrier that Separates Air
Feb 2nd
Climate change is at the forefront of our global political dialogues. It is difficult to confront the overwhelming amount of data and the abstract nature of climate change. The effects are observable on the large scale, but human sensory perception is too limited to observe the sheer magnitude of the problem. Air quality offers one tangible indicator.
The Environmental Protection Agency, with Lisa Jackson at its helm, has taken on a new angle in its battle against air pollution: haze. Now air quality is a matter of national aesthetics. What politician can argue that the pristine sight of the Grand More >
NEWSBITES February 2012
Feb 2nd
ENERGY PRODUCTION / AIR POLLUTION
EPA Report Lists NM’s Major Polluters
New Mexico appears to be just like the rest of the nation when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The Environmental Protection Agency’s first-ever list of high-polluting industries nationwide shows that 77 percent of pollution comes from power plants. In NM, the 16 power plants put out a total of 30 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in 2010. The highest producer of greenhouse gas emissions was the coal-fired Four Corners Power Plant, which released 13 million metric tons. That plant is operated More >
Community, Heal Thyself
Feb 2nd
Vicki Pozzebon
We’re well into 2012 now, and I hope I’m not the first to say that everyone, everywhere seems to going through major transformation. In December, 2011, I made a huge leap and decided that, based on my own interests, knowledge and skills, I would jump into the world of freelance, independent consulting on local economy issues. Since 2006, the economy was my head-on, my rock-up-a-hill, my cross, my work, my duty. Little did any of us know that the bottom would drop in 2008, and pushing the rock up the hill would only become more difficult. But what I More >
Retire Your Way: The New Retirement
Feb 1st
Bruce Poster
This is the first in a series of articles on “The New Retirement” and how to prepare yourself for this major life transition. While many retirement advisors focus solely on financial planning, I will address 15 factors (including finances) important to a successful retirement. Having recently “retired” from my former life work as a research and planning consultant and business coach, I am eager to help others create their own retirement plans and find personal meaning in retirement.
According to Dr. Richard P. Johnson, a nationally recognized sociologist who has specialized in the field of retirement, “The New Retirement is not More >
WHAT’S GOING ON? – ALBUQUERQUE
Feb 1st
Feb. 1, 5:30-7:30 pm
Green Drinks
Hotel Andaluz
NM Green Chamber of Commerce hosts its monthly networking event.info@nmgreenchamber.com, www.nmgreenchamber.com
Feb. 2, 7 pm
Protecting NM: Elevating Community Rights Above Corporate Rights
UNM Student Union Bldg.
A presentation by Thomas Linzey, senior counsel for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. Info: 575.666.2529, drillingmoracounty@gmail.com or visit drillingmoracounty.blogspot.com
Feb. 3, 17, 7:30-11 amUrban Shaman: Gathering the Healers of ABQ. A group for shamanic practitioners and healers of all varieties. Patricio Dominguez offers ceremony and teachings to support higher consciousness for healing. www.theCNTK.org
Feb. 4, 9 am-4 pm
Intro to Sustainable Green Business Practices
CNM Workforce Training Center, 5600 Eagle Rock Ave. NE
What does More >
WHAT’S GOING ON? – SANTA FE
Feb 1st
Through March 27
Business Assistance Classes for Artists
SF Community Gallery, SF Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy
A series of evening classes and one-on-one consultations by appointment for artists, artisans and craftsmen interested in working with the Creative Tourism program. Offered by the city of SF Arts Commission and SF Creative Tourism. 608.792.5746, RSVP: www.santafecreativetourism@gmail.com
Feb. 4, 9 am-4:30 pm
American Rainwater Catchment Systems Assn. Workshop
Genoveva Chavez Community Center
Accredited level 100 class. $35 includes lunch. Vendor open house 1-5 pm. 505.577.8899, doug@harvesth2o.com, To register: www.arcsa.org
Feb. 4, 3 pm
A 20-Year Perspective on Monogolia
Tipton Hall, SF University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr.
Speakers: Dr. More >
WHAT’S GOING ON? – HERE & THERE
Feb 1st
Through March 13
“Menu for the Future”Los Alamos Co-op, 95 Entrada Dr., Los Alamos, NM H Seven session discussion course explores connections between food and sustainability. Dinner & Discussion Series hosted by Los Alamos Cooperative Market. The food we eat, its history and by-products of our food systems. $25 for members, $30 non-members. 505.695.1579, www,facebook,com/LosAlamosCoop and www.losalamos.coop
Feb. 1-4
2012 EcoFarm ConferenceAsilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA
EcoFarm’s flagship event brings food system stakeholders together for education, networking and celebration. www.eco-farm.org/programs/efc
Feb. 3, 11 am
Dedication/Ribbon Cutting56C County Rd. 65, Dixon, NM
Ceremony celebrating successful construction of solar PV system by Los Ebanistas Construction Inc. and Sol More >
If I Had $16 Million, Here’s How I Would Spend It in New Mexico to Help Change the World
Jan 3rd
Charles Bensinger
Incredibly, on Dec. 3, 2011 nearly 200 people braved treacherously icy roads and blizzard conditions to view a provocative new documentary entitled Thrive. What was it about this video that motivated so many men and women to drive from Santa Fe on a cold, stormy night to Eldorado’s La Tienda Performance Space? Perhaps it was the question that the producer asks as the documentary opens: “If humans are such a creative, ingenious species, why are millions of people relegated to desperate lives of unrelenting suffering and hardship?”
The documentary proceeds to explain how our financial, economic and political systems have More >
Faren Dancer’s… Unicopia Green
Jan 3rd
Welcome to the Mythical Year… 2012
With all the massive hype aside, the buildup to this particular New Year, with all the uncertainty, loss of faith in our locked-down political system, economic woes, and the sobering, unedited news on the state of our climate, persons could get caught up in these proposed, “end of times.” From the infamous ramblings of the Mayan Calendar to the pessimistic premonitions of Nostradamus, the landscape has been riddled with dire perspectives that heighten the already unsettling sensations of change. It is often change itself that causes many to dip into a feeling of insecurity, and More >
Tres Hermanas: Educating Women to Unite Communities
Jan 3rd
Andrez Juarez
Tres Hermanas Co-op was started as a response to the state of our community of Chimayo, New Mexico. For too long Chimayo has been at the top of every bad list and the bottom of every good list. My family saw our community being ravaged by drugs and domestic violence. Politically, the people have never really had a leader that spoke for them or listened to their concerns. Economically, Chimayo has never had any industry to help lift it out of poverty. It is for this reason that, in 2011 several women got together and formed Tres Hermanas Co-op.
Our More >
Joining the Global Economy Using Ancient Systems
Jan 3rd
The Cooperative Development Center of New Mexico
Seth Roffman
In early spring, members of the High Peaks Deep Roots Agricultural Cooperative in Truchas, New Mexico, will gather to plant organic vegetables as a team for the second season in a row.
Incorporated last year as a farmer’s cooperative, High Peaks Deep Roots consists of seven farmers and their families who hope to revitalize their community and help themselves economically. In its first year, the co-op was able to find and develop a farm site, create and implement a farm plan and join four farmers’ markets in northern New Mexico. They also were able More >
The New Mexico Acequia Association’s Annual Congreso de las Acequias
Jan 3rd
Quita Ortiz
Every fall, the New Mexico Acequia Association, holds its annual meeting, the Congreso de las Acequias. In 2011 it took place in November at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center. Approximately 150 dedicated acequieros from throughout the state gathered to share stories about history, community and ongoing struggles. In past years the Congreso focused on the movement’s work to defend and protect water and to strengthen local agriculture. In 2010 the Congreso celebrated 20 years of uniting acequia communities and defending acequia water rights. These issues remain relevant to NMAA and will continue to be a core part of the organization’s efforts; More >
Freedom to Farm: Supporters March to Protest Genetic Engineering of New Mexico’s Chile
Jan 3rd
Isaura Andaluz
The chilly weather on Dec. 3rd was overcome by the energy of people marching along the streets of Albuquerque. Bundled up and sporting signs, they marched to call attention to the need to protect NM’s heritage chile from genetic engineering. The event was organized by Occupy Albuquerque, Save NM Seeds and others opposed to what they see as an international conglomerate’s efforts to own and control our world’s food supply. The march started at the downtown Alvarado Transportation Center, traveled down Central, around Civic Plaza, and ended at Roosevelt Park. The marchers were cheered on by a stream of cars, More >
New Mexico Traditional Chile Summit
Jan 3rd
January 7 – Oñate Center, Alcalde, NM
Clarissa Duran
Northern New Mexico is known for its fresh green chile, red chile ristras and chile powder. Chile is not only a staple in most homes; it is a vital part of New Mexican life. Chile is served in Pueblo homes during public feast days. It is served during the Holy Week observed by most of the communities surrounding Española.
GMO chile threatens the future existence of Traditional Chile. Many of us know the story of Monsanto vs. farmer Percy Schmeiser. GMO chile promises that there may be many similar cases to come. But more More >
Seed Saving to Ensure Local Food Security
Jan 3rd
L. Acuña Sandoval
Seed saving became even more important to me recently as a farmer when I came close to losing a particular corn variety in my seed stock. ‘Hopi Pink’ is an excellent flour corn that is extremely rare. I haf collected it at a seed exchange a few years back. I grew this variety only in an isolated part of my field in 2010 along with rare winter squash (‘Lakota’) and sunflowers (‘Tarahumara’). I harvested three bushels after sowing about a quarter pound of seed, then just put it aside and forgot about it. I started looking for the More >
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