“It is through intuition that we sense our intrinsic and spiritual relationship to the flow of Nature. It is through science that we attempt to understand the relationship of the microcosm to the macrocosm.”
Jack Loeffler
Watersheds as Commons is set in the American Southwest. This series includes voices of Puebloan, Hopi, Navajo, Apache, and Tohono O’odham Native Americans; Hispano scholars and Anglo ranchers; and writers, historians, environmental activists, scientists, and others who challenge current land use practices, express deep-seated cultural and ecological concerns, and forward ideas for restoration of the threatened watersheds and bioregions of the American Southwest and beyond.
Program 1 Watersheds as Commons: An Introduction
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Program 2 Manifest Destiny: Coming of the Anglos to the American West
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Program 3 Hispano Culture and the Acequia Tradition
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Program 4 Ranching in the Arid West
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Program 5 The Río Grande: Negotiating the Rapids of the Future
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Program 6 Río Grande Pueblos: Teachings for the Next Generation
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Program 7 Canadian/Pecos/Gila Watersheds: Examining Culture and Conservation
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Program 8 Tohono O’odham Culture: Embracing Change with Traditional Wisdom
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Program 9 Colorado River: Complexity, Legislation and Natural Law
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Program 10 Navajo Culture: Applying Tradition to the Modern World
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Program 11 Hopi Culture: Listening to the Flow of Nature
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Program 12 Water in the Time of Climate Change
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Program 13 Roots of Hunger: Rethinking Our Foodsheds
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Program 14 Consciousness, Conscience and the Commons
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