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[Joan Stevens]

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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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.

Sylvia Rodriguez, Ph.D. explored the sacred role of water in Northern New 
Mexico's arid landscapes and traditional societies.

Ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan, Ph.D. looked at the biology of adaption and native 
foods as a basis of cultural and ecological resilience.

Lucia Sanchez, Norma Novarro, and Isuara Andulaz debated food policy in a panel 
moderated by Marcia Brenden, Ph.D.

Bill Zeedyk and Van Clothier
 explored the principles of induced meandering and 
the physics of stream restoration and erosion control.

Arnie Valdez, Senior Planner for Santa Fe County, shared new directions in 
acequia landscape planning and management and Estevan Lopez, 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:
US Department of Housing + Urban Development, Office of University Partnerships

Additional in-kind support from regional and local community partners include:
Department of Planning and Zoning, Rio Arriba County, NM;


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:
Embudo Valley Library 
Cuatro Puertas
New Mexico Acequia Association
The Acequia Institute 
Earthworks Institute
Vivac Winery 
La Chiripada Winery 
McCune Foundation 


Thank you and all the best for the new year!


Peter and Hadley Arnold
Co-Directors, Arid Lands Institute

Estevan Arellano
Event Director



ARID LANDS INSTITUTE
Woodbury University
7500 Glenoaks Boulevard
818. 394 3335 T
818. 767 8851 F

aridlands at woodbury.edu
www.aridlands.woodbury.edu
______________________
Burbank, CA 91510

The author and publisher are solely responsible for the accuracy of the 
statements and interpretations contained in this publication.
Such interpretations do not necessarily reflect the views of the Government. 
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