Earth Day 2010
What a Difference a Decade Makes!

PEEC's 2010 Earth Day theme, What a Difference a Decade Makes! incorporates the rememberance of the 10th anniversary of the Cerro Grande fire, the 10th anniversary of the founding of PEEC, and the importance of volunteerism.

April 3-30: Earth Day Art Show, Mesa Public Library
April 8: Art Show Opening
April 17: Guided Hike
April 18: Guided Hike
April 22: Earth Day Speaker
April 24: Guided Hike
April 24: Festival
April 25: Party for PEEC
April 28: Kids' Symposium

Earth Day Festival

Saturday, April 24

The Earth Day Festival will feature displays by community groups of their earth-friendly products and practices and their information about our environment on the Pajarito Plateau. Renaissance entertainment group Clan Tynker will perform. The festival will be held at PEEC, 3540 Orange St., Los Alamos.

Earth Day Art Show

Touched by Fire -
Hands that Help, Hands that Create

April 3-30
Opening: April 8, 5:00-7:30

PEEC has reserved the upstairs gallery of Mesa Public Library to showcase both the volunteer spirit and the creativity that was "ignited" by the Cerro Grande fire. In collaboration with The Los Alamos Volunteer Task Force, we will use half of the gallery space to create a "wall of volunteers," and the other half will be dedicated to art work that was either inspired by the fire, or literally created from the ashes. The art show is open to all media - fiber art, stained glass, painting, photography, and sculpture. All work must be available for display for the entire month of April. If you have created any art work related to the Cerro Grande Fire, or if you own art work created in response to the fire or recovery of the landscape, please contact Mary Carol Williams or Katy Korkos. Contact Katy at 661-4816 or katyk@losalamos.org.

The art show opening night will feature readings by the Nuclear Poets at 6:15, and a talk by Craig Martin at 6:30.

Party for PEEC
"Nativo Meal" and Auction

Sunday, April 25

Hilltop House Best Western

The cultivation of food unites people to land and water. Cooking and sharing a meal unites people to one another. Join us for traditional and contemporary dishes made with ancient foods, including corn, squash, beans, chile, bison, turkey, trout, nuts, seeds, berries and cocoa. This will be a wonderful dinner, prepared with respect for Native culture and indigenous foods. Recipes for all dishes and a brief history of each ingredient will be available to take home.

Kids' Symposium

Wednesday, April 28
Fuller Lodge

Students from Mountain, Aspen, LAMS, Chamisa, and Pinon will present data on fire recovery that have been collected over the past decade.

Guided Hikes

April 17, 9:00 a.m.

April 18, 4:30 p.m.

April 24

April 17: Rory Gauthier will lead a hike to Dutchess Castle 9:00 AM. Meet at the Tsankawi parking lot at 9:00 AM. We will then get back into our cars and drive about 1/2 mile down the highway and park on the shoulder opposite the computer parking lot. From here, we will hike to Duchess Castle and north mesa to look at cavates and petroglyphs including one that depicts a conquistador on horseback. Hike is moderately strenuous, off trail and will require some scrambling up talus slopes. Bring hat, water and sunscreen and some food. We will be out for about three hours.

April 18: Chris Judson will lead a hike to the La Mesa Fire area. Meet at Ponderosa Campground at 4:30 PM. La Mesa Fire, 33 years later - In June of 1977 the La Mesa Fire left part of the area around the Ponderosa Campground looking like a moonscape, while part was hardly touched. Thirty-three years later, we'll walk through some of each area and see what the long-term environmental effects have been (be ready to feel encouraged!). About l mile, off-trail but easy walking, wear long pants and closed-toed shoes since there are lots of thorny plants along the way. Probably about an hour. Meet at the trailhead at Ponderosa Campground. No pets.

April 24: Sierra Club Hike led by Michael Di Rosa and Craig Martin. Meet at the High School parking lot (the large lot closes to Duane Smith Auditorium). We'll carpool from there and return to the high school and the festivities at PEEC.

All Earth Day hikes are FREE.