December 2015
Green Fire Times: 80 Months
It is hard to believe that this is the 80th monthly edition of Green Fire Times. The print…
Read More »‘Compact of Mayors’ Signing
In anticipation of the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris, community, organizational and environmental leaders, including Santa Fe…
Read More »Modernizing America’s Grid
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) One of my earliest memories is visiting my father in the hospital after…
Read More »Educating for Our Electricity Future
Christian E. Casillas Imagine walking into your home, which has a rooftop covered with grid-connected solar panels and…
Read More »Creating Local Community Resilience to Avoid Climate Catastrophe
Robert Christie, Ph.D. In some ways, northern New Mexico is ahead of other regions in building local community…
Read More »BOOK PROFILE: The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar
By Jamey Stillings; Foreword by Robert Redford Published by Steidl, 2015; 154 pages, 60 photographs Internationally renowned, Santa Fe-based…
Read More »Rina Swentzell
A Tribute to Rina Swentzell Porter Swentzell Rina Swentzell, a noted scholar from Santa Clara Pueblo, passed away…
Read More »Honoring Rina
Jack Loeffler It was in April 1939 by current reckoning that Hendrine Naranjo was born into the family…
Read More »Heritage, Adobe Architecture and Grief: Learning from Rina Swentzell
Tom Guthrie Rina Swentzell was one of the most amazing people I have ever known. Her life story…
Read More »Remembering Tewa Pueblo Houses and Spaces
Excerpt from The Multicultural Southwest: A Reader (1990), University of Arizona Press Rina Swentzell Santa Clara Pueblo was…
Read More »A Quiet, Fierce Intelligence
Chris Wilson When Rina Swentzell spoke to a large audience, her voice was often so soft that you…
Read More »Oh Thou Incomparable Cielos!
Dedicated to the Memory of Rina Swentzell Alejandro López When, through lack of vigilance, I allow modern life’s…
Read More »Tewa Women United Receives EPA Grant for Healing Foods Oasis Garden
Beata Tsosie-Peña The New Mexico–based nonprofit, Tewa Women United (TWU), located in Española, has received a $30,000 Environmental…
Read More »The Rail Yards Market – Barelas, Albuquerque
Alex Paramo Located in Barelas, a historic Hispanic neighborhood in the South Valley, the Rail Yards Market (RYM)…
Read More »Española Opens Food Venture Commercial Kitchen
Alejandro López A throng of people awaited the arrival of Governor Susana Martínez outside of the Food Venture…
Read More »Delicious New Mexico
The Gift of Local Food Celerah Hewes-Rutledge This holiday season, many of us have two things on our…
Read More »Maurice Dixon Jr. Recovers the Artistic Legacy of Higinio V. Gonzales
Alejandro López The Artistic Odyssey of Higinio V. Gonzales, published by the University of Oklahoma Press, is an…
Read More »Newsbites – December 2015
Risk to New Mexico’s Water Supplies A peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Research Letters, has published a study that looked at…
Read More »What’s Going On? – Albuquerque – December 2015
Dec. 2, 5:30-7 pm Green Drinks Hotel Andaluz, 125 Second St. NW Network with people interested in doing business…
Read More »What’s Going On? – Santa Fe – December 2015
Dec. 2, 11:30 am-1 pm Green Lunch SFAHBA Offices, 1409 Luisa St. What’s coming up at the Roundhouse? Presentation…
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