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Youth Sustainability Conference Santa Fe, New Mexico October 1st and 2nd, 2004
Designing Our Future: People, Planet, Prosperity, and Play
Saturday Workshop Descriptions
Council of Beings (CANCELLED) Joan Brown, Ecological Ministries We will gather a council of creatures, plants, elements, and beings other than human to speak to us of their concerns and hopes for the earth. The ritual gathering of the council will incorporate time to listen, respond, make masks, and enter into the council in a participative manner.
Creating Water-Recycling Wetlands in the Desert Erin English Explore the potential for building a wetland in Monte del Sol’s backyard to recycle and reuse water run off from the rooftops and parking lot. Work with expert environmental engineers to design a wetland system complete with water purifying and native plants.
Indigenous Techniques for Building with Adobe Jarrett West, Natural Building Expert Come gain hands-on experience in building an adobe tool shed from locally harvested materials with the master natural builder Jarrett West. Learn about the importance of using local material to create structures that blend in with their surroundings.
Using Hip Hop to Create and Empower Community: Part II, Expression through Hip Hop Sarah Dollhausen, True-Skool Foundation and Latino Community Center Fidel Verdin-Williams, Gorilla Promotions Participants will have the chance to learn the technique of and express themselves through poetry, spoken word, and rhymes. We will also dissect lyrics of popular songs heard on the radio and discuss the negative and positive images presented in the mass media.
How to Model the Earth’s Ecosystems Using Computers (CANCELLED) Belinda Wong-Swanson, Innov8 LLC Using the new science of complexity, come and learn how we can use NetLogo - a programmable modeling environment for simulating natural and social phenomena, to model and demonstrate the dynamics of ecosystems. Learn about writing computer programs, and how to use them to answer complex questions about the natural world.
Permaculture Nate Downey, Santa Fe Permaculture Walk the land with local expert Nate Downing of Santa Fe Permaculture, to gain an understanding of Permaculture principles and how to create human environments which work with the natural flows and cycles of water, soil, wind, and sun. Learn essential job skills of surveying and understanding the land to design landscapes, homes, gardens, and school grounds to work with the local ecology.
Creating Positive Social Change through Art (CANCELLED) Tanya Story, Independent Artist Express messages of social justice through art in this hands-on workshop. Create art with meaning and power for positive change.
Discovering the Art and Science of Yoga Karen Mauthe, Baca Street Yoga Spend the afternoon in bliss practicing the healing art of yoga. Learn the about the many different types of yoga while discovering which ones suit your own personal style. This informative and active workshop is for those with yoga interests and experience at any levels.
Bees, Goats and Chickens: Animals That Garden Amy Pilling and friends from EcoVersity Meet some of the best farmers and gardeners in the animal world, and learn how they can help you compost, plant, weed, and pollinate your garden, while providing delicious honey, eggs, or milk. We will learn the basics of caring for chickens, goats, and bees; how to incorporate them into a backyard mini-farm and how to harvest (and taste!) organic honey from a beehive.
How to Create and Run a Green Business Houston Johansen, Student Leader Jeff Lopez, Student Leader Rachel Balkcom, Project Leader, One World Coffee and Trade Group Bring your business ideas and learn how to turn them into reality in a socially and environmentally responsible way. Students from the youth-run Fair Trade business, One World Coffee and Trade, will share their experience on how they started an earth- and people-friendly business. Learn just what Fair Trade is, then envision and create your own brand of sustainable business and plan it out with some guidance from the experience of the Fair Trade teens.
How to Create Energy from the Sun Joe Griffin, New Mexico Solar Energy Association Learn all you ever wanted to know about how to collect energy from the sun. This hands-on workshop will demonstrate the workings of solar collecting systems from solar panels to solar ovens. Bake your own cookies by harvesting the heat of the sun.
How to Identify and Use Native Plants for Health Jessie Emerson, RN, Certified Clinical Herbalist Tomas Enos, El Milagro Herbs Come learn about the methods and benefits of herbal medicine. In this workshop, you will learn to identify the medicine that grows around you through a plant identification walk around the school grounds. Learn how to make healing teas and salves, and make your own herbal medicine kit to take home with you.
Saving the World in Style: Part II, Defining Your Personal Style Sean Schmidt, Sustainable Style Foundation Part II of Friday’s Saving the World in Style workshop. Here you will learn how to look fabulous, live well and do good as the group takes on Fashion Show Production 101 to design and produce a fashion show with recycled and sustainable clothes during the lunch hour. Participants will spend the afternoon discovering ways to express themselves, their individuality and their values through the clothes they wear, the way they decorate their rooms, the food they eat, etc. Participants need not taken Friday’s workshop to participate in this one.
Living Sustainably in the Desert: Water Harvesting and Recycling Richard Jennings, Water Management Consultant
Richard
Jennings, a water management consultant, walks you through water
harvesting and water recycling. Find out how water harvested from
your roof can be used for drinking water, household water, or
irrigation. This workshop will also consider the safe reuse of
household effluent, the chemical and biological differences between
grey and black water, and discuss what can be safely put down your
drains, and what cannot. Time permitting, a slideshow of water
harvesting around the planet will be shown. Sustainability Education for Teachers and Administrators Tony Gerlicz, Monte del Sol Charter School Jaimie Cloud, Sustainability Education Center Wade Miller, Earth Care International Learn how to integrate sustainability into your current curriculum and how teachers and administrator through the cooperation of their students can transform their schools and communities. Jaimie Cloud is the president and founder of the Sustainability Education Center in New York City, and has her curricula in schools through the world. Tony Gerlicz, Head Learner of Monte del Sol, has been the driving force behind creating a sustainable model school. Tony’s vision is to integrate sustainability life skills into all areas of study.
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