Eco-Culture Research Gallery Presentation

Local Food Rebuilds Small Town (And Inner-City) America

"La Finquita Community Garden via Nuestras Raíces

Our uncertain times, both economic and environmental, have businesses, individuals and all levels of government scrambling for a positive way forward. On one end of the solution spectrum is the short-sighted U.S. financial bailout. On the other end are thousands of far-sighted individuals, community groups, neighborhoods, and towns, planting, growing, preserving, cooking, and eating food grown in their own (literal and figurative) backyard..."

(Via TreeHugger.)

Wetland Restoration: The Best Alternative to Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies?

Image from doortoriver

"While widespread wetland destruction could unleash the mother of all 'carbon bombs,' scientists are discovering that the restoration of these vulnerable ecosystems could provide a valuable bulwark to climate change by creating a worldwide network of potent carbon sinks. A $12.3 million research project to capture and store carbon by growing tules and cattails in wetlands launched by the U.S. Geological Survey this..."

(Via TreeHugger.)

Minnesota Piloting "Productive Conservation on Working Lands"

"Wise people in the US State of Minnesota are working on an program for rural landowners and/or farmers who would like a way to maintain bio-diversity without fully 'idling' present, or prospective, cropland. It's called the Productive Conservation on Working Lands or 'PCWL' program. Instead being stuck with the binary choice of using wet or erodible acres to feed the ethanol beast, versus a 5-year contract to keep land in 'conservation reserve' (currently the only taxpayer supported program for protecting nesting game birds and other wildlife), farmers can 'kill two birds..." (More Via TreeHugger.)

New Mexico EGB annual Scholarships

The New Mexico Emerging Green Builders (EGB) annual scholarships to attend the US Green Building Council’s Greenbuild Conference are available now!

Apply today for your chance to go to Boston November 19-21 http://www.greenbuildexpo.org/.

These scholarships provide a unique learning opportunity for individuals that are interested in sustainable design and development and would like to take an active role in the EGB.

The application deadline is September 7, 2008.

To apply:
Become a student member of the NM USGBC Chapter http://www.usgbcnm.org/,
Provide a copy of your current schedule or proof of graduation within the past 5 years,
Fill out the attached electronic application,
Tell us why you would like to attend Greenbuild and how you intend to contribute to sustainable design and development
Commit to future involvement in the EGB and to presenting a luncheon program on Greenbuild as well as a short article on the conference (see application for details).

Return the application and required information to emurph_1999@yahoo.com with EGB Scholarship in the subject line.