The Turquoise Room at La Posada

Celebrating Southwest Flavors Winslow, Arizona · By Gary Paul Nabhan When you leave the noonday heat of the Painted Desert and come into the cool, colorful halls of the historic La Posada Hotel in Winslow, Arizona, it sometimes feels as though you are going back in time. Designed by pioneering Southwest architect Mary Colter at […]

Southwest Windpower

Doing Good for the World Flagstaff, Arizona · By Rose Houk Andy Kruse’s story is a classic one: he and a friend started messing around with wind turbines in a garage “out in the cinder hills” near Flagstaff, Arizona. The year was 1987, and he and David Calley had visions of harnessing this source of […]

Hopi’s NativeSUN

Something New – and Old – under the Sun Kykotsmovi, Arizona · By Peter Friederici During most daylight hours the sun shines strong on the Hopi mesas of northeastern Arizona, ripening the corn, warming the houses, and forming the clouds that nourish crops. For the last twenty years it has also powered the electrical systems […]

Mac Watson

Dirt Rich Santa Fe, New Mexico · By Charlie Laurel The story of adobe building is as old as dirt – as old as sun-baked mud bricks, and almost as widespread as human beings themselves. “Eighty to ninety percent of the structures in the world that people live in are earthen structures. It’s only in […]