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Ecoversity blogs:
Biomagic
Vortex

EcoVersity
2639 Agua Fria
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Office: 505.424.9797
(Winter hrs:Tues-Fri 9-2)
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E-mail: info@ecoversity.org

TED Conference videos:
A Greener Future
Inspired by Nature
Animals That Amaze
Evolution's Genius
Predictions/Warnings

TED curator Chris Anderson interviewed on Charlie Rose

Jeff Harbour
KSFR Interview
Ecoversity directors RP Harbour and Willem Malten talk about Ecoversity's mission and future with Santa Fe's KSFR radio. (audio interview)

M. Gorbachev
spoke in Santa Fe in April. He called for a new global glasnost, and radical reforms to meet the challenges of the 21st century. 'History is not pre-ordained', he said (by way of encouragement). Here is an excellent overview of his speech from Cheryl Rofer on TechnoRati, and here is Stephen Fox's blog on the subject.

Willem Malten
KSFR Interview
Willem Malten talks about peak food and the worldwide problem of rising prices and falling supply of wheat and other basic foodstuffs with Santa Fe's KSFR radio. (audio interview)
see Willem's Vortex blog

Ecoversity: Presentations, Workshops and Courses

Below you'll find listings of presentations and workshops you may follow online or attend in person, both around the world and at Ecoversity's home base, Santa Fe, New Mexico..

2008 Beekeeping Course Series with Talon VanHowten
Talon VanHowten will be giving our beekeeping courses this year in a series of six weekend sessions beginning in April. Talon VanHowten is a certified beekeeper who keeps seven hives of his own. He is also an artist, a body-worker and the son of internationally known author and founder of Life Impressions Institute, Donald VanHowten. Students may attend either a morning session (9-12am), or an afternoon session on the same material (2-5pm). Students will learn how to build hives, collect swarms, harvest honey and make salves, soaps and candles. Each group is limited to 10 students. Cost: $180 for the series (classes are not offered individually). Call 424-9797 for more info.

Ecoversity Beekeeping Class 2007:
Watch videos from the 2007 beekeeping class, including 'Queen Bee', 'Rescue Beekeeping', and 'Beeswax Candle-Making': (Beekeeping videos)
Watch a slide show of the 2007 beekeeping class (Beekeeping slideshow)

More photos in new window: (outdoor setup) (algae machine 1, 2) (Oil Output) (The Kids of LGI 1, 2, 3)

Saturday April 26th: Special Earth-Day Event at Ecoversity

Fuel and Food From Algae: a Practical Demonstration

Alfonz Viszolay and his crew of enterprising and brilliant kids (Leonardo and Alexandria of LG International, pictured above) will present a biofuel-producing living algae machine at Ecoversity on Saturday April 26 for Earthday. They will introduce us to the principles and techniques of algae farming for carbon sequestration and the production of biofuel, oils, and protein cakes. Taste and touch a hopeful and positive future of decentralized, abundant energy!
For students of environmental engineering and alternative energy sourcing, this is a must-see event. In ecoversity's classroom we will display and demonstrate a working model of the Algae Machine with illuminating explanations given by Alfonz's crew . Outside we will have a much larger prototype living algae machine with the algae growing in long plastic tubes, a technology invented and developed by Mr. Viszolay, a Hungarian-born engineer and inventor, who has done many environmental remediation projects for large corporations.
Ecoversity feels honored to host Mr. Viszolay and his young crew and such an important experiment in clean and decentralized energy production, and we invite everyone to participate in this important transmission of information and knowledge. read more on algaefuels in "case focus".
Watch a movie of the Algae Machine demonstration
Watch a slideshow of the set up of the Algae Machine.
Watch a slideshow of the Earth Day 2008 celebrations at Ecoversity, including the presentation of the Algae Machine.
Here is a player with all of these gathered together.

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Gabriel Browne on LEED Certification
Gabriel Brown of Praxis Architects discussed aspects of the LEED* green building rating system, including certification issues, on Feb 20th at Ecoversity in Santa Fe. (watch video)
*LEED stands for "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design" and is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. (More LEED info here)

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Stephen Levine Poetry Reading:
Stephen Levine, best-selling author of 'Meetings at the Edge', 'Who Dies?', 'A Gradual Awakening', and co-author with Ram Dass of 'Grist for the Mill', gave a reading from his new book of poetry, 'Breaking the Drought', on Saturday, December 15th in a benefit event for Ecoversity in Santa Fe.

You can view videos of his extraordinary reading *HERE*.


"Here are poems of the heart that speak directly to our spirit today. Anyone who reads them will be quickened and touched. Both timely and timeless, these visions of grace are like nectar to the soul." - Lama Surya Das

Introduction to Beekeeping
Talon VanHowten will be giving our beekeeping courses this year in a series of 6 weekend sessions beginning in April. Students may attend either a morning session (9-12am), or an afternoon session on the same material (2-5pm). Enrollment is limited to 10 for each session. Cost: $180 for the series. Call 424-9797 for more info.
View beekeeping slide show
View our beekeeping movies

Greenhouse Management
With Bob Markham
The Greenhouse at Ecoversity has never functioned or smelled better, now with a lovely abundance of aromatic botanicals! Learn greenhouse principles and management, including the role of rocks and water elements as heat sinks, with Master Gardener Bob Markham at our ongoing demonstration site. (call for appointment)

Solar Electric:
Photovoltaics with Adi Pieper at Ecoversity. Course just completed... next course to be scheduled... Call 505.424.9797 for more information

The Forgotten Kingdom:
Notes from a Fungophile
View quicktime slideshow