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Graham Bowkett
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Free radon class at Santa Fe Community College, Jemez Room

June 16, 2011 from 4pm to 6pm
Santa Fe Community College will offer a free class in June designed to educate homeowners about radon, an odorless, tasteless and invisible gas. Home Owner’s Guide To Radon New Mexico Indoor Radon Outreach Coordinator Michael Taylor will teach participants how to test for radon in their homes and what to do if they discover a radon problem. See More
May 23, 2011
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U.S. Senate energy committee at Santa Fe Community Convention Center

April 27, 2011 from 1:30pm to 5pm
The U.S. Sen Energy and Natural Resources Committee, chaired by Sen. Jeff Bingaman, will hold a field hearing in Santa Fe Wednesday. They'll be accepting testimony from specific experts on the impacts of climate change on water in the West. This is part of the Secure Water Act legislation crafted by Bingaman and passed in 2009.
Apr 26, 2011
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Graham Bowkett and Santa Fe Conservation Trust are now friends
Feb 27, 2011
Graham Bowkett and Lily Ribeiro are now friends
Aug 24, 2010
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Jul 17, 2010
Graham Bowkett and Charlie Lennox are now friends
Jan 13, 2010
Graham Bowkett and Melissa Pardeahton Houser are now friends
Oct 8, 2009
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slow money at Santa Fe Railyard,

September 9, 2009 at 7:30am to September 12, 2009 at 12pm
SLOW MONEYINAUGURAL NATIONAL GATHERINGFROM THE GROUND UPSeptember 9 -12, 2009Santa Fe Railyard, Santa Fe, New MexicoSee More
Jul 20, 2009
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Graham Bowkett is attending Staci Matlock's event

Sustainable Santa Fe at Santa Fe Community Convention Center

July 18, 2009 at 9am to July 19, 2009 at 7pm
Big Head Todd and the Monsters, architect Paolo Soleri, Rocky Mountain Institute genius Amory Lovins, author and rabble rouser Jim Hightower and food activist John Robbins will be at this two day event celebrating sustainability innovations.
Jul 8, 2009
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Jun 22, 2009
Graham Bowkett might attend Kathleen Chambers's event

Green Drinks Rides the Rails! at Santa Fe Southern Railway Depot

April 29, 2009 from 6pm to 8:30pm
All aboard the Santa Fe Southern Railway for the Green Drinks one-year anniversary party on the train, Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Network and socialize with other environmentally progressive people in your community and learn what sustainable practices the train has on board while traveling out to the rim of the Galisteo Basin to view a conservation project from Commonweal Conservancy, galisteobasinpreserve.com. $10 per person. Reservations required by calling 989-8600. Details go to…See More
Mar 30, 2009
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What does 'sustainability' mean to you?
Not using more than my share of the resources of the world. However, this is not realistic. So we are doing all that is practical.
http://picasaweb.google.com/graham.bowkett/Glenhaven
What do you do to try and live green and what would you like to learn more about?
As much as we have done with our house, just by driving we are taking far more than our share.
We try to only drive into town once a week, our car does 32 mpg as we have to have a 4WD vehicle.
(We have decided to drive below 65mph and found we are now getting 34mpg!).
We have changed to vegetarian meals at home as beef production uses so much corn and we have started to bake our own bread, make our own yogurt.
But my wife has to visit her Dad (nursing home) in the UK once in a while and the airline flight blows the whole deal!
What concerns you most about the issues facing the environment, whether locally or globally?
Will we make the changes soon enough?
The Germans are making huge strides with PV panels going up everywhere. They have a progressive government that has worked out a way to make it financially feasible. We need to teach why the "Commons" is important.
Do you have a Web site?
http://picasaweb.google.com/graham.bowkett/Glenhaven

GLENHAVEN - our Earthship in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

The building of our Earthship - Glenhaven - is on the website:
http://picasaweb.google.com/graham.bowkett/Glenhaven
Below is our living room & kitchen, you can also see the planter that runs along the south wall behind the south-facing glass.
Water all comes from our roof (we store about 6,000 gallons), electricity all comes from a 3 kilowatt PV system, our hot water comes from a roof mounted solar heater. But our cooking is by propane gas. We also have a back-up flash gas water heater.
Our kitchen has everything; 20 cu. ft. fridge/freezer, dishwasher, trash compactor & gas cook stove. All run off solar.
Our heat is solar/geo thermal with one small modern wood stove. Lighting is with compact fluorescents and LED lamps.
Waste; all our grey-water goes into the planter and our sewage is handled by a modern electric powered composting toilet.
All our entertainment is by computer via wireless broadband, no TV, no radio. The house has no physical mechanical connexions to the outside world.
And this house cost much less then the median priced stick-built house.
We are happy to answer questions. email: graham.bowkett AT gmail.com



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Are we in the US taking this seriously ?

A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Posted March 17, 2009



If you think preventing climate change is politically difficult, look at the political problems of adapting to it.



By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian, 16th March 2009.



Quietly in public, loudly in private, climate scientists everywhere are saying the same thing: it’s over. The years in which more than two degrees of global warming could have been prevented have passed, the opportunities squandered… Continue

Posted on March 18, 2009 at 9:32am

Water

I will explain my attitude to H2O.



The stupidest thing I can think of is using drinking water to flush human feces down a drain to be reprocessed. Into what? Being a student of permaculture, I believe there is no waste and no away; flushing "waste" "away" is impossible and thus wrong to begin with. Almost every house has grey-water, water that has been used for washing ourselves, our dishes or our clothes. With a bit of simple plumbing and natural filtering, that water can be used to… Continue

Posted on November 24, 2008 at 7:25pm — 2 Comments

Imagine:- GM & MILITARY INDUSTRIAL GIANTS TO BUILD HIGH-SPEED RAIL SYSTEM.

GENERAL MOTORS are good at building large vehicles that are too large for a sensible fleet of road going people movers. They suck gas.



The brains of America (and many immigrants from foreign universities) are employed by the likes of GE-NBC & Bechtel in the military industrial complex, working away on ideas to kill people via fighter aircraft, drones and modern electronic devices. Why waste these brains? Let's re-employ them to design the… Continue

Posted on November 23, 2008 at 9:30pm

Comment Wall (4 comments)

At 8:42am on April 20, 2008, The Green Line said…
Hi Graham, Welcome! Enjoy The Green Line. I hope you enjoy it. Please let me know whether there's anything I can answer for you.
Henry Lopez
Web editor, santafenewmexican.com
At 3:11pm on April 20, 2008, Graham Bowkett said…
My comment did not show up on my page? And I could not add photos? I'll keep trying.
At 9:33pm on September 17, 2008, Mark Sardella said…
Hi Graham, and thanks for your comment. My videographer also does video for the Bioneers, so between now and the conference is his busy season. I will try to release audio podcasts until he gets back in late october. Great to know you are listening, and I'll try to get back to regular releases next week.

Take care, - Mark
At 4:27pm on October 29, 2008, Lisa said…
hi graham, tell me about yourself. lisa

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