15th Water Conservation/Xeriscape Conference

The Land Use – Water Use Connection

February 25-26, 2010  •  Albuquerque Marriott Hotel

 

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Day 1 - Thursday 25 Feb 2010

8:00 – 8:30

Introductions and Kick-offGeorge Radnovich

8:30 – 8:50

Ray Powell - Jane Goodall Institute
Former NM Land Commissioner

8:50 - 9:00

Intel - Jami Grindatto

9:00 – 9:45 Keynote –Global Water Update
Peter Gleick

9:45 – 10:00

Gutzler Report – Warming, Climate, Rain
David Gutzler, UNM

10:00 – 10:15

Break

  Urban/Neighborhood

10:45 – 11:45

Health and Climate
Dr Richard Joseph Jackson, UCLA

11:45 – 12:30

Urban Forest 
Nick Kuhn, Albuquerque City Forester

12:30 – 1:30 

Lunch

  Suburban

1:30 – 2:30

Sustainable Urbanism
Doug Farr

2:30 – 3:15

Small Yard Landscaping
Scott Calhoun

3:15-3:30

Break

3:30 – 5:00

Water - A Conversation About Critical Issues
Peter Gleick, Robert Glennon,
Sandra Postel, John D’Antonio

   
   
Day 2 - Friday 26 Feb 2010

8:00 – 8:45

Keynote: The US View of Water - Unquenchable
Robert Glennon

8:45 – 9:45

Second Keynote: An Industrialists’ View of Water
Will Swope –Intel Corporate VP for Sustainability

10:00 – 10:15

Break

  Rural / Agricultural

10:00 – 11:00

A Sustainable Farmer’s View of Plants and Water
Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms

11:00 – 11:45 Native Plants, Traditional Medicine, Human Health
Dr Cheo Torres

11:45-12:45

Lunch

12:45 – 1:30

Watershed Management
Isobel Heathcote, Guelph Univ

1:30 – 2:15

Butterflies Integrate Land and Water through Plants
Steven Cary, Natural Resource Planner, NM Parks

2:15-2:30

Break

2:30 – 4:00

Conservation Design Forum
David Yocca & Gerry Wilhelm

4:15 – 5/5:30 Artist: Greg Brown, songwriter, performer
   



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