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Youth Sustainability Conference Santa Fe, New Mexico October 1st and 2nd, 2004
Designing Our Future: People, Planet, Prosperity, and Play
Workshop Description
Friday Workshops
How to Create Positive Social Change, Peacefully and EffectivelyRachel Balkcom, Social Activism Teacher, Santa Fe PrepBill Fishbein, Coffee Kids Kristina Fisher, Think New Mexico Alvin Warren, Trust for Public Lands Le Adams, Farm to Table Join Rachel Balkcom, and a panel of local social activists as they talk about their work and how and why social justice is part of sustainability. Find out just how much positive change is possible in the world today.
How to Save the Brazilian Rainforest Dr. Vannetta Perry, International Environmental Activist Dr. Perry leads educational experiences for groups of individuals, teachers, and organizations who want to learn more about delicate international environmental issues by traveling to exotic and very special locations for in-depth studies and personal awakenings. As one of the most diverse environments on earth, the Brazilian Pantanal is abundant in flora and fauna including several endangered species such as the hyacinth macaw and jaguar. In this workshop Dr. Perry will share experiences from previous trips where students explored various economical enterprises within the Pantanal such as mining, cattle raising, fishing, ecotourism, and farming that affect environmental quality. Find out how you might get involved in environmental issues in Brazil.
Northern New Mexico Traditional Healing: Curandismo Jessie Emerson, RN, Certified Clinical Herbalist Join Jessie Emerson an alternative health practitioner from Pecos, New Mexico in discovering traditional and local methods of healing called curandismo. Jessie will present a video of interviews with a local healer and a show-and-tell of some of the common objects and plants used in curandismo. Participants will also make their own sage bundles to take home.
How to Make a Difference with Your Life: Living with Purpose and Passion in Challenging Times Ocean Robbins, Youth for Environmental Sanity In this workshop, you will learn about how to be authentic and true to your own integrity whether or not it’s popular, and have the chance to speak from the heart with peers about what really matters to you. This workshop will help you develop a deepened connection to who they really are, beyond social and family pressures, and to find a sense of purpose and mission, so that life takes on greater meaning and vibrancy.
Using Hip Hop to Create and Empower Community: Part I, Hip Hop History 101, Sarah Dollhausen, True-Skool Foundation Fidel Verdin-Williams, Gorilla Promotions This workshop will discuss the history of the Hip Hop culture; where it began, who started it and how it has been used as a means to make something out of nothing - to empower young people.
How to Become a Sustainable Business Entrepreneur and Use Your Consumer Buying Power for Doing Good Kathleen Savage, Santa Fe Hemp Daryl Stanton, Casa Natura TBA, Santa Fe Community and Business Alliance An interactive discussion on how businesses can be both socially and environmentally responsible. Come learn about this new form of business from three local entrepreneurs who are running businesses that are profitable and making a difference.
Saving the World in Style: Part I, the Design World’s ‘Green’ Secrets Sean Schmidt, Sustainable Style Foundation Join Sean Schmidt of Seattle’s Sustainable Style Foundation for a look at the latest ‘green’ happenings in the style and design world. This show-and-tell will spill the industry’s secrets from fashion, food and film to interior design, architecture, travel, music and more about how the industries are becoming more socially and environmentally conscious. Continue with Part II of this insider’s look at fashion during Sean’s Saturday workshop, Defining your Personal Style Statement, where participants will create and present a Sustainable Fashion Show during Saturday’s lunch hour.
Renewable Energy for a Renewable Future Mark Sardella, Local Energy Kim Bowker, Wind Energy Craig O’Hare, New Mexico Mineral, Energy, and Natural Resources Department Join Mark Sardella of Local Energy, Kim, wind energy expert, and Chris Wentz of the Mineral and Energy Department for a look at the pros and cons of renewable energy choices in New Mexico.
How to Eat Healthy and Heal the Earth (CANCELLED) Le Adams, Farm to Table Lynn Walters, Cooking with Kids Jane Stacey, Cooking with Kids Don Bustos, Santa Cruz Farm and Greenhouse You are What You Eat. This conversation will explore local and organic farming practices and how communities can regain control of one of the most basic human needs - food.
Becoming Water-Smart in New Mexico (CANCELLED)Erin Murphy and Michele Mykris, New Mexico Department of EnergyWhat’s the big deal about water in New Mexico anyway? Join Erin and Michele from The New Mexico Environment Department for a discussion on specific water issues around the state including, LANL ground water contamination, Super Fund sites, and contamination from dairy farming. Gain an understanding of your own personal impact on water issues as you calculate the water waste streams of your school and home.
The Water Crisis and the Role of Living Machines and Ecological Planning in Developing Sustainable Solutions Alberto Amura, Dharma Living Systems In this interactive workshop, take a holistic look at the growing environmental crisis around water availability on this planet. Learn how you can build living machines to recycle wastewater from your house with natural technologies that help the Earth. Find out what proactive things you can do in your own life to bring solutions to the water crisis. Alberto Amura of Dharma Living Systems, a Taos company leading the way in environmentally friendly and restorative technologies, presents this workshop.
Practices of Sustainable Living in Northern New Mexico (CANCELLED) Miguel Santistevan, Taos High Find out what it takes to live sustainably in New Mexico. In this workshop, you will gain learn about the practice and skills of self-reliant living in the desert region. This sustainability journey will inform you about the traditional sustainable practices of Northern New Mexico acequia culture and introduce you to essential skills such as harvesting native seeds.
Connecting your Mind, Heart, and Spirit to Mother Earth: A Butterfly Model for Peace Kathy Sanchez, Tewa Women United, San Idelfonso Pueblo Kathy Sanchez of San Idelfonso Pueblo and Tewa Women United will guide participants through hands-on activities to illustrate the integration of mind, heart, and spirit in ourselves and our connection to Mother Earth. Kathy will share how the TEWA Women United have developed this model from their experiences to guide all people in finding their inner strengths. In this workshop, participants will identify how in his/her life's journey, one can access different realms of reality with spiritual guidance from other worlds. This will be visually and through movement, illustrations, and hands-on, integrative activities with clay, and water.
Coming Home to Earth: A North American Ritual (CANCELLED)Joan Brown, Ecological MinistriesUsing props, dramatic reading, and interpretations we will participatively enact the deep time story of this continent beginning 65 million years ago with the Paleocene Period. We will close with each person sharing their history on the continent and recommit ourselves to care for this bioregion where we now live, coming home to this place.
Sustainability Education for Teachers and Administrators Tony Gerlicz, Monte del Sol Jaimie Cloud, Sustainability Education Center Wade Miller, Earth Care 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.
Saturday Workshops
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 DesertErin EnglishExplore 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 AdobeJarrett West, Natural Building ExpertCome 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 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, Innovate 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 Downing, 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 ArtistExpress 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 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. Tony Gerlicz, Monte del Sol Charter School Jaimie Cloud, Sustainability Education Center Wade Miller, Earth Care 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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