Going Quiet Kingman, Arizona · By Charlie Laurel Jack Ehrhardt and his contracting company, ACE Builders, built the first “Earthship” in Arizona for a client in Dewey in the early 1990s. An Earthship is a self-sustaining, passive solar home made from used tires packed with dirt, cans, bottles, and other discards. The home was designed […]
Diné Be’iina and the Black Mesa Weavers for Life and Land
Sheep Is Life Navajo Nation, Arizona · By Gary Paul Nabhan When one first sees a flock of Navajo Churro sheep moving across the sage-covered flats of Navajo Nation lands, it is easy to imagine that they have been here, adapting to this land, since time immemorial. Their colors – buffs, browns, silvery-blues, cream, and […]
The Hogan Project
Reconnecting the People and the Forest Cameron, Arizona · By Peter Friederici and Roberto Nutlouis From most of the western Navajo Nation, in north-central Arizona, the diamond summits of the San Francisco Peaks are landmarks on the horizon. To the Diné, as the Navajo call themselves, the Peaks are one of the four sacred mountains […]
Oakhaven Permaculture Center
Making Use of Natural Connections Hesperus, Colorado · By Rachel Turiel Hinds In another time and place Tom Riesing crunched numbers on Wall Street. Christie Berven taught elementary school. Since meeting in 1998, the two have become born-again zealots for their cause: soil, earthworms, beet greens. Tom and Christie are the creators of Oakhaven Permaculture […]
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