In this Americas Latino Eco Fest keynote address, leading conservation scientist and EVP for Conservation International, Dr. M. Sanjayan (@msanjayan) will offer an exclusive first peek at his upcoming PBS TV series, EARTH – A New Wild. Filmed in 29 countries on six continents, the series reveals how humans are inextricably linked with nature. With the film clips as backdrop, Sanjayan will then offer up a groundbreaking new framework for creating and igniting a more inclusive and impactful environmental movement for the 21st century. His presentation will culminate with the premiere of a “must-see” 2-minute film, created especially for Hispanic audiences and featuring Penelope Cruz as the voice of “water.”
After the Flood Hike for Families (Bilingual)
Conmemoración de la inundación para las familias: (Bilingüe)
Los invitamos a unirse a la Naturalista Juanita Echeverri para una caminata dirigida a las familias en el sendero de Upper McClintock y visitar las áreas afectadas por las inundaciones de Septiembre. Vamos a mirar rocas que el agua movió, y veremos si ustedes son tan fuertes como el rio. Escucharemos la historia del “Puente Heroe” y aprenderemos como los cambios en el riachuelo pueden haber afectado los animales que viven en los Espacios abiertos. Esta es una caminata fácil, solo 2 millas y 400 pies de elevación. Nos reuniremos en la casita de los guarda parques . Los perros no están invitados. Esta caminata es para 6 años y mayores. Lugar: 900 Baseline Chautauqua park.
Watching for Fall Migratory Birds: Bilingual
Join city of Boulder Spanish-speaking naturalist Dave Sutherland for an evening walk around Sawhill Ponds in search of migrating birds. Each fall, many birds that have spent the summer breeding and feeding in the far north return to warm, tropical climates like Mexico. On their way, the stop in Boulder to rest and relax on their long journey. We’ll use binoculars and a small telescope to look for birds, and learn how to use a bird field guide book. This is a free program. Please meet at Sawhill Ponds wildlife reserve, 3345 75th Street, Boulder, Colorado.
Buscando Aves Migratorias del Otoño (caminata bilingüe)
Únanse con el guía naturalista bilingüe Dave Sutherland en una caminata al atardecer alrededor de los lagos de Sawhill Ponds para buscar aves migratorias. Cada otoño muchas aves que han pasado el invierno reproduciéndose y alimentando sus polluelos en el norte lejano , vuelven a Boulder para descansar en su largo vuelo. Usaremos binóculos y pequeños telescopios para observar aves, y aprender cómo utilizar una guía de aves en el campo. Este es un programa gratis. Por favor reúnanse en el Refugio de fauna de Sawhill Ponds, 3345 calle 75th, Boulder, Colorado.
PROGRAMAS GRATIS
7:30pm Reception
8:45pm Welcome and Keynote, Re. Raul Grijalva (Arizona)
9:00pm Dinner Celebration of Chef's ALEF desert creation
9:15pm Silent Auction and Raffle | Concurrent with Dinner
9:45pm Remarks with Edward James Olmos & Ed Begley Jr.
1010pm Strings Concert with sandra Wong
10:30pm Book Awards
10:45pm Closing Remarks
Race and Renewable Energy:
Challenges and Opportunities Transitioning to the Renewable Energy Economy
Workshop: Indigenous Medicine
Mavis Salazar will give an introduction to Indigenous Medicine of the Americas. She will be talking about the 3 sisters, and 7 warrior foods of the Aztecs, spirit plants and the many herbs we should have include in our diets. She will also talk about energy medicine and how we are all connected as one with the Universe. She will also show how we can feel energy, and incorporate simple exercises to rise our energy to release stress, and anxieties.
Mavis Salazar is a Curandera and owner of Grandmother's House of Herbs and Cures Education Center, and Director of Ceiba-USA non-profit. She is located in Denver, Color
The Mayan Energies and Entering into the 5th Sun
On Dec 21, 2012 the Mayan calendar count came to an end. The 4th Sun closed and the 5th Sun began. Many people were left asking what could this new 5,000 years bring.
Mayan Elder Miguel Chiquin Yat has traveled from the Mayan Nation, Guatemala, to Denver to bring the message from our Elders to what the new Sun is bringing to us. He will talk about the silent message of the Jaguar, how to bring illumination to your life and about the Mayan calendar and each of the 20 energies.
A proud product of south central Los Angeles, Juan D. Martinez is Director of Leadership Development and Natural Leaders Network for the Children & Nature Network. His passion to empower individuals and youth led him to direct Sierra Club’s first environmental justice youth leadership academy in Los Angeles.
In 2011, Juan was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. The series of National Geographic promotional video’s highlighting Juan and his work won an Emmy in 2011. His TED talk is featured on the curated educational videos, TEDEd. He represents The North Face as an ambassador for outdoor engagement. In 2012 he became the youngest member in history of the Sierra Club Foundation Board. He reached the Summit of the Grand Teton in 2010 with legendary alpinist, Conrad Anker. In 2009 he introduced Department of Interior's Ken Salazar at Powershift in Washington, DC, the largest youth gathering on climate change, and he was invited by the White House to attend the National Forum on Clean Energy Economy. A keynote speaker at the 2010 Outdoor Retailers Winter Show in Salt Lake City, Utah, Juan received a standing ovation following his presentation.
In 2006, Juan was a delegate to the Latino Congreso, the largest gathering of Latino key figures in the U.S. and he is included in “Hispanics Living Green.” Publication of the book was celebrated in March 2010 with a Congressional reception in Washington, DC. Featured in BlindFold Magazine’s Fall 2013 edition.
He is a recipient of former Secretary of Labor and then Congresswoman Hilda Solis’ Environmental Youth Leadership Award and “Looking to the Future” award from the Breaking the Color Barriers conference, the largest conference on people of color in the great outdoors. Juan received a “Green for All” 2009 fellowship.
Juan served as Explorer In Residence at The Murie Center in 2012. He dedicates his energy to connecting all people with nearby nature and the great outdoors.
Vanessa Torres
As a dual graduate from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, TX with a B.A. in Political Science and M.A. in Public Administration and a Masters of Education from Ashford University, Vanessa Torres currently serves as the Youth Program Analyst for Department of Interior’s Youth, Partnerships and Service under the Office of the Secretary. In her portfolio, Vanessa is lead on serving as a liaison to DOI Bureaus’ Youth Managers, youth employment, engagement and diversity, relevancy and inclusion.
Torres began her career with an incredible summer with at Kenai Fjords National Park as a Superintendent’s Intern, Vanessa decided to follow her passion for the outdoors and working with diverse communities by pursuing a career with the NPS and now with the Department. Torres continued her work with the NPS as a student intern during the following summer working at Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site and eventually being hired as a Park Guide at Grand Teton National Park in 2008 to assist in opening the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve. After graduating with her Masters degree, Vanessa was converted into a permanent position at Grand Teton. In late 2009, Torres began working to reach out to diverse communities in Jackson, WY – Grand Teton’s gateway community— by engaging Latino youth and their families in a variety of park programs.
Vanessa has aided in developing a variety of outreach programs bridging the gap between diverse communities and their local national green space. Torres also participated in the development of the NPS Academy – a pilot program that brought together 29 diverse college students for a weeklong spring break training to expose students to public lands and potential careers within the NPS. After the weeklong experience students are placed in internships throughout the NPS. Students serve as “ambassadors” of the NPS Academy when returning to their community to aid in recruiting for the following year. Vanessa was an integral part of developing the NPS Academy program curriculum and assisting in expanding the program to the other regions within the NPS System and assisted in having the program adopted at the NPS national level under the NPS National Youth Program Office.
Prior to working with the National Park Service, Torres worked for the 21st Century Leadership Center at St. Mary’s University as a Student Community Leader working to bridge the gap between the local San Antonio community and the university. She also worked as a Policy Intern for Methodist Healthcare Ministries, also in San Antonio, TX. Torres currently serves at Grand Teton National Park’s diversity outreach and youth engagement coordinator. Vanessa works to establish new partnerships in youth outreach and to connect underserved students and diverse populations to national parks in their backyard.
Amy Marquis & Dana Romanoff NPX
Maite Arce, Director HAF (Hispanic Acces Foundation)
Among many initiatives of HAF Maite Arce has launched and championed a most exciting platform for engaging youth with the national parks.
Following up on last year’s trip, the 2014 Four Stops, One Destination tour will take seven Latino college students to four (okay, it’s actually six this year) national parks to engage Latinos with our nation’s parks and raise awareness about the need to protect these treasures from oil and gas development for future generations.
During the 1,400-mile trip, the students will produce a video blog and share their experience through social media (#4stops1destination) from each location. They’ll be virtual tour guides showing the beauty and grandeur of each of these parks and educating us all about what they learned firsthand about the energy development threats.
Workshop Title: “We Stand on Their Shoulders”
In this highly interactive workshop the participants will discuss ways that Latinos have been living sustainably for thousands of years, due in large part to our spiritual relationship with the earth and all its inhabitants. Participants will leave the workshop with specific strategies to meet the challenges of “living green”. Bring to this workshop personal stories of your ancestors and how they lived green. Come with an open heart and a commitment to listen to each other with the intention of learning.
Bio:
Daniel Escalante is a community organizer, trainer, and group facilitator with over 25 years of experience in training, primarily in the fields of Leadership Development, Conflict Management, and Inclusiveness. He has presented numerous workshops at state and national conferences such as National Coalition for Equity in Schools, White Privilege Conferences, Latino Youth Leadership Conferences, and CIRCLE Conferences. Daniel currently runs a small retreat center, located in Taos, New Mexico, for activists, educators and families. The retreat center is a living example of green living. Based in the heart of Northern New Mexico, it draws on the ancient ways of Latino and Indian people, while incorporating current approaches to caring for mother earth.
Web sites: www.danielescalante.com www.casataos.com
Nature and the Outdoors provide us with a multitude of benefits, from personal and social health benefits, to cultural connections rooted in tradition and history. Reconnecting to the outdoors is a necessity at the personal and community level, from young to old, across cultures and generations. It is a way to heal the self and community, to value the cultural connections of communities, to think about the future while protecting our open spaces and building on the conservation successes of the past. Come listen to how these leaders are working to reconnect ourselves and communities with the outdoors and why this matters.
Laura Rodriguez,Sierra Club's Inspiring Connections Outdoors Rafting, Chair
Jose Gonzalez, Latino Outdoors
Juan Martinez, Children & Nature Network
Rod Torrez, Hecho
Maite Arce, Hispanic Access Foundation
Carmen Vidal-Hallett:
Our US American cities are finally starting to focus on pedestrian oriented life as the center of attention for sustainable development. Transforming the car oriented city street landscaping of our cities is a great challenge. More than 10 years ago while working for the City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development I started to look back into sustainability examples to help the Chicago’s Mayor to develop it’s first “green agenda”. The mail goal in my research was to find simple, inexpensive solutions that could be adopted immediately and within a short time frame. Latin America’s great examples of sustainable development became the focus of my attention. In 2004, with a Graham Foundation grant my husband, a photojournalist and I decided to move for a month to Curitiba, Brazil with our 2 kids for a month, in order to research and experience first hand the world wide famous sustainable city. From the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit), to land use regulations, recycling methods and environmental education programs, we found numerous low-budget solutions that provided at the same time historic preservation, affordable house and public open space preservation as well as environmental protection that could not only help in Chicago but many cities around the world to became more sustainable.
Since them and after our hard work spreading the word about simple practices Chicago has adopted many of Curitiba’s lessons. My presentation will focus about the lessons learned from Curitiba and the Chicago sustainability examples that have been inspired by this city as well as other Chicago sustainability examples specially in the latino communities including examples of organizations such as The Resurrection Project in Little Village and Back of the Yards and Interamerican Magnet School with it’s award winning 2008 Sustainable Master Plan.
Latino Millennial Voices on Conservation: Stories about Activism for Water and Land Protection
Young Latino Millennials from the Nuestro Rio Leadership program and Hispanic Access Foundation’s youth network will demonstrate how they've engaged broader audiences including elected officials in their states and in Washington, DC around the importance of protecting the Colorado River and its tributary, the Gila River, as well as balancing conservation of public lands and energy development. Presenters will share their personal experiences and how they've used social media to bring attention to conservation issues. These dynamic young people will also showcase the engagement tools they have used to build support among their peers and seize the attention of key decision makers.
Presenters:
Rosalia Salazar, Nuestro Rio
Ramon Verduzco, Nuestro Rio
Ian Dale, Nuestro Rio
Lorenzo Chavez, Nuestro Rio
Zoraida Martinez, 4 Stops, 1 Destination: Latino Engagement in the National Parks
Adrian Hernandez-Lopez, 4 Stops, 1 Destination: Latino Engagement in the National Parks
Jennifer Pitt (Environmental Defense Fund); Karen Schlatter (Sonoran Institute); Nancy Saldaña (San Luis Rio Colorado); Jorge Figueroa (Western Resource Advocates); Kendra Sandoval (Sandoval & Sandoval).
The connection that we have as Latinos to mother earth has imbedded itself into our culture as a way of life. Traditions like hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, herb gathering, farming and ranching have created a spiritual bond between Latinos and our outdoor heritage. We’ve also always been very aware of how finite resources are, especially when economic barriers are at play, so to reduce, recycle and reuse has always been a cultural norm amongst Latinos. Despite these natural alignments to the conservation movement, Latinos have also been in the front lines of environmental impacts. The Southwest is already experiencing impacts of climate change, affecting the lives and economies of 56 million people – a population that is expected to increase 68% by 2050, to 94 million. Increased heat, drought, and insect outbreaks, all linked to climate change, have increased wildfires. Declining water supplies, reduced agricultural yields, health impacts in cities due to heat, and flooding and erosion in coastal areas are additional concerns. This forum will showcase that the Latino community understands that climate change and air pollution is having profound effects on our economy, our health, and our future. Already, Latino business leaders, policy makers, health professional, elected officials and citizens across the nation are working to address our most pressing challenges: the quality of our air, the security of our water and the protection of our lands. (Session curated by Conservation Colorado.)
Introduction to the Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP)
Join naturalist Juanita Echeverri for a Family friendly hike where you can learn about the City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) system. You will learn the history of the area, the use of the land from different communities and how the city has achieve to acquire and preserve all these lands for more than 100 years. You will see the diversity of the flora and fauna of the place and you will learn what to do if you encounter one of the charismatic animals that live in the region. We will meet at the Chautauqua Ranger cottage. Location: 900Baseline. Please leave dogs at home.
Networking Prelude to the Latino Business Expo/Colorado Latinovating Summit with the Americas Latino Eco Festival, Boulder Chamber and the Latino Chamber at the Hotel Boulderado
Monday, Sept 15, 2015 from 5:30-7:30pm
Drinks and Appetizers sponsored by Hotel Boulderado and Rosario's Peruvian Restaurant
Hotel Boulderado
2115 13th St, Boulder, CO 80302
$15 Members of Chambers of Commerce
$25 General Admission
(Includes Latin American food fare and one drink. Cash bar available)
ALEF, the Boulder Chamber and the Latino Chamber invite you to make connections and be a part of AMERICAS LATINO ECO FESTIVAL (www.americaslatinoecofestival.org) for an evening of afterglow reception on Monday, September 15 at the Historic Hotel Boulderado (http://boulderado.com/) from 5:30-7:30pm. Network in the historic Mezzanine, enjoy Latin American Food and 1 drink ticket for beer or wine during the evening as you get a sneak peak of what to expect at the Latino Business Expo the following day. The Latino Business Expo is celebrating its 10th Anniversary with a stellar host of speakers and presenters from the state of Colorado offices, the community foundation and Google. For the first time important Latino business data will be made available which can help your business plan for the future. For more information on the Expo event visit (www.thelatinoexpo.com). A cash bar will be available for guests. Reservations are $15.00 for Boulder Chamber (www.boulderchamber.com) and Latino Chamber (www.thelatinochamber.com) members and $25.00 for Non Members. There are a limited amount of reservations, so please reserve your spot today!
PROMO CODE: LATINOCHAMBER
Connect with the Local Latino Business Community – According to Nielson, if it were a standalone country, the US Hispanic market’s buying power would be a top-20 world economy. Ranked the nation’s fourth fastest growing market, the Washington metro area Hispanic market greatly impacts/influences this standing. The Expo is an excellent opportunity to meet leaders of the Hispanic business community face‐to‐face and establish the relationships that would allow your business to gain access to the local Hispanic market.
Meet Buyers and Decision Makers – Interact with the exhibitors that will be showcasing their businesses. Additionally, the Business Workshops will allow you to meet decision makers that purchase goods and services in local, medium, large organizations and corporations.
Attend Business Workshops – Topics will include Marketing to Hispanics, How to Do Business with the Colorado Government, Learning from Successful Hispanic Business-Owners, and more.
Network, network, and network – Join us for the activities leading to the Expo with the Americas Latino Eco Festival where an unnumerable amount of activities will bring you awareness of what's happening in the Latino communiy. (music, food, culture, literature, theater, film, and more). Through a partnership with the Boulder Chamber join us the day before for an After Hours preview at the Boulderado Hotel.
REGISTER HERE or go to www.TheLatinoExpo.com
Watching for Fall Migratory Birds: Bilingual
Join city of Boulder Spanish-speaking naturalist Dave Sutherland for an evening walk around Sawhill Ponds in search of migrating birds. Each fall, many birds that have spent the summer breeding and feeding in the far north return to warm, tropical climates like Mexico. On their way, the stop in Boulder to rest and relax on their long journey. We’ll use binoculars and a small telescope to look for birds, and learn how to use a bird field guide book. This is a free program. Please meet at Sawhill Ponds wildlife reserve, 3345 75th Street, Boulder, Colorado.
Buscando Aves Migratorias del Otoño (caminata bilingüe)
Únanse con el guía naturalista bilingüe Dave Sutherland en una caminata al atardecer alrededor de los lagos de Sawhill Ponds para buscar aves migratorias. Cada otoño muchas aves que han pasado el invierno reproduciéndose y alimentando sus polluelos en el norte lejano , vuelven a Boulder para descansar en su largo vuelo. Usaremos binóculos y pequeños telescopios para observar aves, y aprender cómo utilizar una guía de aves en el campo. Este es un programa gratis. Por favor reúnanse en el Refugio de fauna de Sawhill Ponds, 3345 calle 75th, Boulder, Colorado.
PROGRAMAS GRATIS
