A great resource on water. 
 
"There is one, and only one, solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world,and train all our young people to help. They want to.
We need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities,stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience"
"...the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.
Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter."


- Bill Mollison


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To: Aridlands <aridlands@woodbury.edu>
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Sent: Mon, January 3, 2011 8:45:20 PM
Subject: Celebrando las Acequias_2010 Video Now Online

Celebrando las Acequias_2010: Past, Present, and Future  

Dear Friends of ALI:

The Arid Lands Institute at Woodbury University is pleased to announce that the Celebrando las Acequias_2010 archival documentation is now online!

The Celebrando, a free two-day symposium held in Dixon, New Mexico in June 2010, was organized by acequia mayordomo, farmer, writer, historian, and community leader Juan Estevan Arellano.

The Celebrando brought together a wide array of perspectives on the role of water, land, and food in shaping cultural identity.  

The Celebrando also honored leaders in the local acequia community and featured native cuisine and music of the Embudo Valley.

In a region where water crosses all jurisdictional and disciplinary boundaries, the Celebrando offered historical, cultural, ecological, political and design perspectives on the challenges facing a changing acequia landscape.

Among the highlights:

Oral/aural historian 
Jack Loeffler urged listeners to recall the 
physiographic and cultural imperatives of watershed-based thinking, linking lore to logics of place.

 explored the sacred role of water in Northern New Mexico's arid landscapes and traditional societies.

Ethnobotanist   looked at the biology of adaption and native foods as a basis of cultural and ecological resilience.

,  , and   debated food policy in a panel moderated by 

 and  explored the principles of induced meandering and the physics of stream restoration and erosion control.

, Senior Planner for Santa Fe County, shared new directions in acequia landscape planning and management and  , Director of the Interstate Stream Commission, placed acequia culture in the context of state policy.

For complete documentation of the event, please go to: http://aridlands.woodbury.edu/public_programs/celebrando_2010.html

Along with Event Director, Estevan Arellano, the Arid Lands Institute will host the 2011 Celebrando las Acequias, June 2011, in Dixon, New Mexico.

Both the 2010 and 2011 Celebrando las Acequias are funded from a grant provided by:
HUD_logo

Additional in-kind support from regional and local community partners include:
Rio Arriba County_logo


Acequia de la Apodaca, Dixon, NM;
Acequia del Bosque, Dixon, NM;
Acequia Junta y Ciénaga, Embudo, NM;
Acequia del Llano, Dixon, NM;
Acequia de la Plaza, Dixon, NM;
Acequia del Medio, Dixon, NM;
Acequia de la Sancochada, Dixon, NM;

and

Bleakly Botantical and Biological, LLC, Albuquerque, NM.


The Arid Lands Institute thanks the following additional co-sponsors of the 2010 Celebrando las Acequias:


Thank you and all the best for the new year!


Peter and Hadley Arnold
Co-Directors, Arid Lands Institute

Estevan Arellano
Event Director



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