December 2011

EVERYDAY GREEN: ABUNDANT GRATITUDE

Dec 1st

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Susan Guyette

Sitting down to a holiday dinner is the opportune time to reflect on abundance. Instead of an enormous spread, this can be the time to focus on fewer, quality, local food dishes cooked well. We each come from a food tradition; remembering the reasons for the tradition brings us to gratitude.

And this might be a time to celebrate with the variety richness of local cuisines—traditional foods such as corn, squash, piñon nuts, Pueblo oven bread, tortillas, posole, chicos and those Christmas tamales. Healthy, healing foods are tasty! Shifting from quantity to quality can become a practice during the More >

What’s Going On? December 2011-Albuquerque

Dec 1st

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ALBUQUERQUE Dec. 7, 5:30-8 pm USGBC-NM Annual Green Tie Event

The Design Group, 120 Vassar SE

Holiday celebration. PV solar system raffle drawing, silent auction. $15 members, $20 non-members, Register at usgbcnm.org

Dec. 8, 11 am-3 pm

NM Food & Agriculture Policy Council Meeting

NM State University Campus, 4501 Indian School, NE, Rm. 202

Meeting to focus on Policy Council work: Review of strategy for 2012 Legislature, presentation by DOH, Rocky Mtn. and NM Farmers’ Union and local food policy councils, Farm Bill update. RSVP to 505.473.1004, ext. 12 or kathleengonzaleznm@gmail.com

Dec. 10-11, 9 am-5 pm PV Panel Making Workshop

AAA Solar, 2021 Zearing NW

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What’s Going On? December 2011-Santa Fe, Española and Here & There

Dec 1st

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SANTA FE Through Dec. 31

Donations for the Food Depot

Whole Foods, 753 Cerrillos Rd.

Whole Foods will make an additional monetary donation in addition to customer food or cash donations. A $10 gift will provide lunch or dinner for a family of four. The Food Depot is committed to ending hunger in northern NM and provides food to agencies and shelters. Contact Sherry Hooper: 505.471.1633, ext. 10 or 505.577.0444.

Ongoing through Jan. 27

NM Centennial Exhibit and Sale

Community Gallery, SF Convention Center, M-F 10 am-5 pm, Sat. 9:30 am-4 pm

Features a variety of Centennial artists from Museum of NM shops. Info: 505.955.6705

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