On the calendar, Earth Day is April 22. But in Santa Fe, the events planned throughout the week highlight environmentalism’s deep roots in the community all year round.

Environmental issues are important and, for some people, they are interesting. But for Harvey Stone, the most pressing environmental issue of our time—climate change—had all the built-in elements required to write a fiction thriller.

Environmental art is hard to peg down; its definition is as uncertain as the future of the environment. Just as one person’s reusable grocery bag is another’s mass transit, one person’s mammoth (often destructive) land art is another’s recycled art materials.

On April 14, a group of concerned citizens descended upon the Santa Fe home of Bette Booth and scoured it for clues with the meticulousness of detective Adrian Monk.

It may seem unlikely in the City Different, but green building educators Robin Dorrell and Dan Clavio still run into the mistaken perception that sustainable building designs are “eccentric.”

I wish I could recall the first time I heard those sounds of madness in the night. I’m sure they tore a hole in my understanding of all things simple and orderly. A cacophony of blood and wantonness. Coyotes.

Call yourself a tree hugger? There’s a lot more to the title than a perfectly arced Frisbee toss, inattention to hygiene and thrift store outfits. In the interest of helping you achieve some real Earth Day cred, SFR offers a partial list of the skills you’ll need to be a real hippie�and how to master them.

For the past decade, we have doubled down on the theory of supply-side economics with the tax cuts sponsored by President George W Bush in 2001 and 2003, which President Obama has agreed to continue for two years. You would think that whether this grand experiment worked would be settled after three decades

Based on data SFCC reports to the US Department of Education, of the approximately 6,600 students who enrolled at SFCC in fall 2010, only half are expected to return for a second year. Even fewer will successfully earn a degree—a discouraging trend at the only public community college serving Santa Fe.

In the late 1980s, people living in the border town of Sunland Park, NM, had a big problem on their hands—and on their laundry lines, too.