Thursday – Saturday, January 17-19, 2008
Marriott Pyramid, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Although no one knows what the decades ahead will bring precisely, there are enough indicators to say that the 21st century will be a lot different than the 20th. Whether the concern is climate change, rising energy costs, potential food and water shortages, or something else, the challenges ahead are daunting.
Our response is resilience, which the dictionary defines as “the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.” In this conference we feature stories of resilence and hope. Speakers will explore both the nature of the challenges ahead, as well as, instructive examples of endurance, coexistence and renewal.
Speakers include David Jonah Western, a renowned conservationist; two Maasai herdsman from Kenya; an animal scientist and shepardess from France; Wes Jackson of the Land Institute; Dr. Lance Gunderson, a resilence ecologist from Emory University; Dr. Eric Blinman, Director of New Mexico’s Office of Archaelogical Studies; Mark Sardella and David Bacon, local energy experts; Darryl Birkenfelt, offering a ‘common wealth’ strategy for small towns; Dave Pratt, on ranching for profit; Kirk Gadzia, on managing land and animals in dry times; Todd Graham, on monitoring for success and the financial benefits of carbon sequestration; Brad Lancaster, author of “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond”; and Bill Zeedyk and friends on water harvesting from low-maintenance ranch roads.
For more information please visit www.quiviracoalition.org and click on Annual Conference.