Bioneers and Co-ops: A Match Made on Earth

Bioneers has a wonderful philosophy.  From the Bioneers website: “Founder Kenny Ausubel coined the term Bioneers in 1990 to describe an emerging culture. Bioneers are social and scientific innovators from all walks of life and disciplines who have peered deep into the heart of living systems to understand how nature operates, and to mimic “nature’s [...]

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Screenings tonight at NHCC!

TONIGHT! Join us at the National Hispanic Cultural Center at 7:00pm for a FREE screening of two talks from the 2011 Bioneers Conference: Filmmaker John Liu’s remarkable presentation on large-ecosystem restoration in China, and feminist icon Gloria Steinem’s provocative talk on the state of equality on our “fragile spaceship,” Earth. The screenings will be in [...]

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Albuquerque Grower’s Market Alliance

It’s a ‘Think Global, Act Local’ thing…

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Redesigning the American Dream

My significant other and I are in the process of purchasing a home. I am also considering a thesis topic related to gender and housing. All of this is making me think a lot more about the conscious and unconscious choices we make in our lives about “home”. The idea of the conventional “American Dream” [...]

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Maggie Macnab on Women’s Focus

I usually miss listening to Women’s Focus live on 89.9 KUNM, Saturday noontime. Fortunately, there is the two-week archive, where you can catch recent programs…. Yesterday I listened to Carol Boss’ February 11 interview with 4 young women about how they see the world, on the brink of graduating from college, followed by an interview [...]

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In Dead Ernest

If I should die before I wake, All my bone and sinew take Put me in the compost pile To decompose me for a while. Worms, water, sun will have their way, Returning me to common clay All that I am will feed the trees And little fishes in the seas. When radishes and corn [...]

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Mon, 2/20: Film Screening to Promote Inclusion

“Class Action” Film Screening Monday, 2/20/2012 5-8pm UNM’s Student Union Building (SUB), Lobo A & B How can WE TRANSFORM UNM? How can we understand past mistakes and work together to create a safe and inclusive campus? Join us for free food and a film screening of Not in Our Town’s latest documentary, “Class Actions,” [...]

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Albuquerque 20/20 + Featured Events

Albuquerque 20/20 + Featured Events I attended part of an Albuquerque City Council meeting held in my school’s auditorium last night. The many fold ideas and intentions behind this “Albuquerque 20/20″ City Council meeting were/are probably great. I saw this as an opportunity to discuss collaborative opportunities between the City and UNM’s School of Architecture [...]

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Bicycling’s 50 Golden Rules

So I was looking through the news on Sunday morning, when I stumbled upon this article:  Bicycling’s 50 Golden Rules Now, you can read the whole thing on your own, but I do want to point out a few rules. “5. Take the Lane You have a right to the road, so use it. It’s [...]

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Burque Bioneers video online!

The Burque Bioneers 2011 video is online at First Eye Film’s YouTube channel. It’s six and a half minutes of poetry, presenters, sponsors, and youth from last October’s event. Check it out! And thanks to Reinhard Lorenz and Rebecca Dakota for all their help in putting the video together…

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