Green Week April 20-26 - News for Santa Fe and New Mexico

Contestants reveal strains of staying green

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Just before Earth Day rolled around last year, The New Mexican issued a challenge to readers — try to follow a list of a dozen "green" actions for a week and then rate your success. Only two intrepid souls accepted the Green Week Challenge: Rancho Viejo project coordinator Anna Mondragon and Sa ... »Read more>>

Living green

Living green
Staci Matlock | The New Mexican
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Below are the 12 actions Frank Herdman and Anna Mondragon stuck with for one week around Earth Day last year during a Green Week Challenge: 1. Ride a bike, take a bus, walk or share a ride with friends. Stay out of your own vehicle as often as y ...Story, »

Harnessing the sun's rays
Staci Matlock | The New Mexican
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The sun could provide about 90 percent of the electrical power needed by the city of Santa Fe's wastewater-treatment plant if Public Service Company of New Mexico goes along with the idea. Solar panels could sprout on other city buildings as wel ...Story, »

Opera strikes green chord
Anne Constable | The New Mexican
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The notes of a G minor scale floated out the open door of a new vocal studio at the Santa Fe Opera this week. Apprentice singer Daniel Gerdes was preparing for his roles in the opera's upcoming productions of Adriana Mater, Falstaff and Billy Budd. ...Story, »

McCain declares global warming a real threat
Glen Johnson | The Associated Press
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PORTLAND, Ore. — John McCain broke with the Bush administration and Republican Party orthodoxy Monday as he not only declared global warming real, but reached out to Democrats and independents with a free-market solution that includes capping carbon- ...Story, »

Organizations that can help you learn to live green
Staci Matlock | The New Mexican
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Agriculture Farm to Table, Farm to School Promotes sustainable agricultural practices Santa Fe, 473-1004, www.farmtotable.info NMSU Sustainable Agriculture Center Researches agricultural practices that benefit small famil ...Story, »

Relearn rhythm of land
Ben Haggard | For The New Mexican
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In Santa Fe and around the world, people are calling for a sustainable way of life. Cities compete over who can be the greenest the quickest. Old industries are being retooled and new ones developed to address the challenges of global change. But in ...Story, »

For some, climate-change debate continues
Staci Matlock | The New Mexican
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Physical chemist William Keller and his Los Alamos National Laboratory associates converted an old Buick to run on liquid hydrogen and tooled around New Mexico in it. "It got great gas mileage and pretty good speed," said Keller, now retired, who hea ...Story, »

Tree-planting takes root
William Booth | Washington Post
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LOS ANGELES — Spurred by visions of their cities frying in a warmer world, mayors around the nation have grasped a green solution: trees! Like Johnny Appleseed, they have vowed to sow their seeds in great profusion, promising millions of new trees in ...Story, »

Green events
| The New Mexican
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Here are some events and workshops coming up to help readers learn about and stay involved with "green" living. TODAY La Cienega Valley Energy Fair, 1-4 p.m., El Rancho de las Golondrinas. Presentations on weatherization, passive and activ ...Story, »

Grow, process food locally
Paula Garcia | For The New Mexican
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For many who were raised in Northern New Mexico, the springtime was shaped by the urgency of the growing season. Acequias had to be cleaned, soil had to be tilled, and seeds had to be planted by a certain saint's day. These ancient cultural practices ...Story, »

N.M. labs take on world's environmental woes
Sue Vorenberg | The New Mexican
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If the federal government were to make a green-focused Christmas list for New Mexico's national laboratories, it might look something like this: Dear Labs, Can you ... 1. Create a detailed model of all aspects of the climate so we bett ...Story, »

Udall to grandchildren: Protecting environment is 'crusade of your days'
Stewart and Lee Udall |
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Arizona native Stewart Udall served as secretary of the interior in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations from 1961 to 1969 and played a part in some of the nation's landmark environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, the Wilderness Act and t ...Story, »

When green is about getting ahead
Jim Wyss | The Miami Herald
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MIAMI — Global warming may be bad for the environment, but it has been great for one industry: eco-marketing. With April being the month we observe Earth Day, it seems every industry is eager to tout its green credentials. There are environmentally f ...Story, »

Certification key in choosing carbon credit program
Doug Mattson | The New Mexican
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If you buy carbon offsets, your money is supposed to go toward solar farms, wind turbines, planting trees and other projects that mitigate carbon dioxide. But paying for projects you'll probably never visit to counter emissions you can't always ...Story, »

Cycle of reciprocity
Diana Del Mauro | For The New Mexican
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Imagine a place where abused and neglected bikes are reborn. Imagine a place where people who can't afford a car find a form of transportation that costs them nothing. Imagine a place where people who were once afraid of their bikes learn how to serv ...Story, »

Healing rivers, one waterway at time
Susan Montoya Bryan | The Associated Press
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Rosemary Lowe scoops up a shovel of dirt and dumps it into a hole around the base of a slender cottonwood tree. One down, thousands more to go. Lowe and dozens of volunteers spent a recent day planting native trees along a half-mile stretch ...Story, »

Get involved with The New Mexican's 'Green Week'
| The New Mexican
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The Santa Fe New Mexican will turn its attention this week toward the environment, problems facing it and what's being done about it. And, we want you to get involved. Sunday, we launched a new online gathering place www.santafegreenline.com where yo ...Story, »

Santa Fe fails to hit Tree City criteria
Staci Matlock | The New Mexican
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All Santa Fe's newly budding trees weren't enough to garner it a spot on the Tree City USA list issued this week by the New Mexico Forestry Division and the National Arbor Day Foundation. While the city has a lot of trees, it still has to do a f ...Story, »

Teams key to creating livable neighborhoods
Staci Matlock | The New Mexican
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What makes a neighborhood livable? A lot of people might say it's a neighborhood that is safe, healthy, pretty, friendly, affordable and good to the environment. So how do you make your own neighborhood more "livable?" The people at the New Yor ...Story, »

Local farms offer community-supported agriculture
Kristen Davenport and Patricia West-Barker | The New Mexican
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The concept behind community-supported agriculture first surfaced in 1965 in Japan when a group of women signed a contract with nearby farmers so that they could feel secure about the origins and quality of the produce they were feeding their familie ...Story, »

Growing community in public spaces
Julie Ann Grimm | The New Mexican
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Fresh, healthy food and stress relief are among the benefits of vegetable gardening. When the garden is in a public park, there's another: building community. Santa Fe city park planners have designated four spaces for future community-orga ...Story, »

Sustain your family, your region, your planet
| The New Mexican
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Work toward buying as much locally produced food as possible, including meat. We're defining "local" as foodstuffs that travel no more than 300 miles to reach your home. Next week's Taste section will feature several stories on this issue; we'll also ...Story, »

Saving the world one chopstick at a time
John Vollertsen | For The New Mexican
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In honor of Earth Day, celebrated yesterday, I thought I would include some related topics in my column this week. I had recently read a disturbing article about the major impact something as simple as disposable chopsticks has on the environmen ...Story, »

Off the grid: Rural New Mexico family lives with city comforts without help from PNM
Anne Constable | The New Mexican
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Tish Wilson chuckled as she recalled the sign a neighbor put up about 10 years ago suggesting a meeting to talk about bringing electricity to homes off N.M. 14 about three miles south of Madrid. "The whole community went berserk," she said. Soon ...Story, »

Green preservation: Historic district codes, environmental upgrades sometimes at odds
Tom Sharpe | The New Mexican
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Historic preservation and environmental concerns occasionally clash, usually over issues involving windows, solar panels or, less often, exterior insulation. The most common conflict occurs when homeowners decide to replace single-pane windows w ...Story, »

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