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Hospitality Green and the Santa Fe Watershed Association would like to congratulate the following properties on their achievement of the Green Concierge’s Bronze Tier Certification. These businesses have demonstrated dedicated involvement through staff training, implementation of recommendations, and adherence to the set of environmental standards of the program.

These properties that met the bronze standard are eligible in one year to apply for the silver level.

Casa Cuma B&B | Eldorado Hotel | Hotel Santa Fe The Hacienda & Spa | Inn of the Five Graces | Inn of the Governors Inn on the Alameda | La Fonda on the Plaza | La Posada de Santa Fe Resort & Spa | Old Santa Fe Inn Santa Fe Sage Inn | Silver Saddle Motel The Santa Fe Inn and Houses of the Moon Lodging at Ten Thousand Waves are currently also participants in the program.

About the InItIAtIve

In December 2012, the Santa Fe Watershed Association (SFWA) launched a public-private sector collaboration, called the Santa Fe Green Lodging Initiative. The initiative was funded by a $49,700 grant awarded to the Watershed Association by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. SFWA supports Santa Fe’s hospitality industry to save money, conserve water, and decrease chemical pollution going into their watershed. This is a certification program that helps hotels set achievable goals commensurate with their capabilities.

In February 2013, HospitalityGreen LLC, a New York-based firm specializing in environmental and operations consulting services and founder of the nationally recognized Green Concierge Certification® program provided technical assistance, green team training and customized coaching to fourteen lodging providers in Santa Fe. From April to September HospitalityGreen (HG) conducted conference calls and one on one assistance to the participating businesses. Local vendors were contacted to provide assistance and green product offerings. Power New Mexico (PNM) worked closely with HG on providing assistance and on-site technical reviews.

In October 2013, HG conducted third party assessments of twelve of the fourteen properties. The on-site assessment determined if the individual property met the rigors of the Green Concierge Certification®. Final requirements that needed to be met by December 2013 were discussed and reported to the properties. The certification requires that a property meet multiple standards and track resource usage.

WhAt dId they AccomplIsh:

A savings of over 1.2 Million KwH of electricity per year; 2,000 pounds of toxic chemicals per year; and 1.5 Million gallons of water per year.

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May 1, 2014

Dear Santa Fe: Supporting our local economy is one of the most important things each and every one of us can do to strengthen this community. Our local businesses are an important part of the magic that makes Santa Fe a great place to live, work and visit. I want to thank the entrepreneurs, the workers and everyone who supports our local companies and helps build our economy.

Local businesses create jobs and provide access to goods and services that enhance our quality of life. Local businesses innovate and create ways to make this a greener and more sustainable city.

Local businesses give back to the community and support our young, our old, and our families as they grow.

We must continue to think about how we can be more sustainable as an economy and as a community. We can unlock the opportunities for being a leader in green and renewable energy and for having a thriving local economy. We will move Santa Fe forward with the commitment to celebrate our businesses and to find innovative ways to make Santa Fe an ever greater community for generations to come.

Best Wishes,

Mayor Javier M. Gonzales Santa Fe, NM

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Letter from the President Being green, going green and green business in general have gone through many incarnations in the last 25 years. The momentum, however, in the last 10 has been uncanny, despite our shaky economy. We’ve seen over and over again that companies sincerely dedicated to the triple bottom line (people, planet, profit) have out-performed their conventional counterparts. Seventh Generation and Patagonia’s sales continued to climb while their competition took a nosedive.

According to “The Big Green Opportunity,” a survey of 1,300+ businesses by Green America, “Growth rates for green business products and services are rising faster than conventional goods in America’s economy, outpacing the overall economy through the depths of the recession.”

And that’s good news.

At the Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce, our vision and mission are to help businesses, green or otherwise, do business better. We do that through education, action and advocacy. Because we believe building a sustainable community of local businesses that are environmentally sound, economically viable and socially responsible is good for everyone. Not just CEOs, but our young citizens who will inherit this planet of ours.

With that, it’s important and highly relevant to support those companies in our community that have gone beyond “business as usual” and put their missions where their mouths are.

They are the innovative ones—consciously and creatively operating businesses for a better future for all.

Want to know who they are? Come to the Santa Fe Green Festival on Saturday, May 17 at the Farmers Market or like us at www. facebook.com/santafegreenchamber and see how business can truly be a catalyst for change.

Respectfully, Carolyn Parrs

Board President, Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce CEO and Co-founder, Mind Over Markets

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The Green Chamber is on the move

BY CRAIG SMITH Chambers of Commerce are about promoting business interests, but they also know that businesses need to be good community partners. It’s something of the old adage of the golden goose — keep customers happy so they keep coming back, while still making a profit on the commercial end.

Green Chambers of Commerce, now an international movement, take that obvious step and go even further with it. Their goal is to show that being eco-friendly and going green need not fight with productive business models.

“Businesses being green can stay profitable while maintaining communityminded models,” said Glenn Schiffbauer, executive director of the Santa Fe chapter of the state Green Chamber of Commerce.

“We believe businesses can use their power to enact environmental and social changes, while being green in another way — the green of the dollar.

“If you can do things in a sustainable way, if your business practices are sustainable, it goes to your bottom line,” he said. “It’s like the old slogan, reduce, reuse, recycle. There are easier and more viable ways than ever to do that now.”

The New Mexico Green Chamber of Commerce (NMGCC), a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization, was founded in 2010 in Las Cruces. Today there are regional chapters in Taos, Albuquerque/ Rio Rancho, Las Cruces, Silver City, and of course Santa Fe. With 1,100 members statewide, the organization creates new opportunities for business by advocating on behalf of renewable energy, strengthening local economies, and promoting the green business advantage.

The Chamber and its chapters also work on statewide initiatives such as potential green tourism events or conferences, political activity at the local, county, and state level, and weekly conference calls between the chapter executive directors.

The idea is to be responsive rather than monolithic, quick to see opportunity and

Santa Fe Green Festival 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, May 17 El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (In the Railyard) Northern New Mexico’s green businesses and organizations are rolling out the green carpet for Santa Feans young and old at the Santa Fe Green Festival. In conjunction with the Santa Fe Farmers Market, festivalgoers can experience new renewable energy technologies, the latest in electric vehicles, organic food, water harvesting, interactive exhibits for kids and much more!

For more information on the Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce, visit nmgreenchamber.com.

act rather than be dilatory.

As a group, the members of the NMGCC are devoted to several powerful goals: Building strong local econonmies; supporting green business practices; promoting green business to consumers; creating economic development with clean energy; and growing small businesses.

“Our business members are spread across a wide spectrum,” Schiffbauer explained. “Most people think of green business efforts as solar panels on rooftops and similar projects. But we have different areas also—finance, restaurants, hospitality. Some are landmark examples including superstar hotels and restaurants. In Santa Fe, Cowgirl BBQ hauls off its own recycling. They use cleaners that are environmentally sound.

They use less water through conservation and control. It’s all full circle.

“If you are going through sustainable business practices, reducing water, reducing energy use, even without hightech methods, you’re going to save.”

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1. Money spent local, stays local. Several studies have shown that money spent in a local business stays in the community. For every $100 spent at a locally owned business, $45 goes back into the community – and our tax base. For every $100 spent at a chain store, only $14 comes back.

2. Local owners are local contributors. Local businesses give a greater amount of money to local causes. Nonprofits receive an average of 350% more support from local business owners than they do from non-locally owned businesses. They also directly inject money into the local economy through payments of wages and benefits to local residents.

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businesses are one of the largest employers nationally, and local businesses offer greater loyalty to their employees.

4. Lower environmental impact. Independent businesses make purchases requiring less transportation, and usually open and operate in commercial corridors and in-town instead of developing on the fringe. This means less sprawl, congestion, habitat loss and pollution. Higher densities and greater access for pedestrians and public transit mean significantly less land devoted to roads and parking lots.

5. Promote competition and diversity. More local businesses equal more competition and better prices.

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neighborhoods need comparatively less infrastructure investment and make more efficient use of public services as compared to nationally owned stores entering the community. A study of this found that a city’s small downtown stores generate a net annual surplus (tax revenue minus costs) of $326 per 1,000 square feet. Big-box stores, strip shopping centers, and fast-food outlets, require more in services than they produce in revenue. A big-box store creates an annual tax deficit of $468 per 1,000 square feet.

7. Vote with your dollars. What you buy matters. Every time you choose a local business over a chain, it makes a difference. It’s a vote with your dollar. When you buy local, the ripple effect spreads from cash registers to your street.

8. Keep New Mexico one-of-a-kind. The unique shops,

restaurants and businesses who call our city home are a huge part of what makes New Mexico inimitable. A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based not on a national sales plan but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.

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9. Invest in the community. Locally owned businesses are

run by people who live here, work here, and are invested in the community with much more than just their dollars. In an increasingly homogenized world, people are more likely to invest in or move to communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind businesses and unique attitude.

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The Global Warming Express, a group of 9- and 10-year-olds, received a 2014 Sustainable Santa Fe award at the Eldorado Hotel from City Councilor Peter Ives.

The Global Warming Express is a climate change advocacy organization created by kids. It has a website and a Facebook page, and is publishing a book this fall.

To learn more about the group, visit globalwarmingexpress@gmail.com.

SUSTAINABLE SANTA FE AWARDS Innovative projects in water, food production and green energy were honored April 2 at the Eldorado Hotel and Spa during the annual Sustainable Santa Fe awards ceremony.

The awards were presented by the Santa Fe Sustainability Commission and Youth Allies Board, the Green Chamber of Commerce, Green Fire Times and the Eldorado Hotel and Spa. Community Outreach: Desert Academy’s Outdoor/Sustainability Club (desertacademy.org) Environmental Advocacy: Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute (4bridges.org) Food Systems: Santa Fe Community College’s Culinary Arts Garden (sfcc.edu/garden) Climate Adaptation, Water: The Raincatcher (theraincatcherinc.com) Climate Adaptation, Ecosystem: Surroundings Studio (thesurroundings.com) Renewable Energy: Consolidated Solar Technologies (gocstsolar.com) Green Building Systems: Aerolenz (aerolenz.com) Green Economic Development: Solar Logic (solarlogicllc.com) Low Carbon Transportation: Santa Fe County (co.santa-fe.nm.us) Waste Reduction: Santa Fe Public Schools and EcoVim (sfps.info; ecovimusa.com) Youth-led Climate Action: Global Warming Express (globalwarmingexpress.org) Triple Bottom Line: Reflective Images and Marc Choyt (celticjewelry.com) Innovative Sustainability Research: U.S. Geological Survey (usgs.gov) SF GREEN ECO CONSCIOUS

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Loving water: Preserve, protect and drink

BY NATE DOWNEY

INDOORS

Stop. Breathe. Drink a glass of water. You can’t absorb mission-critical information if you’re dehydrated.

The City Different happens to be four years into a drought ranging from Texas to California, but unlike other places this town already has a long history reflecting a deep respect for the elixir of life. Here, we revere rain. Pray for snow. We live in utter awe of drizzle. Jaws drop for fog, and dew is often a direct cause for celebration. We love water so much we want to squeeze it and smother it with slobbery kisses.

“We live in an environmentally conscious community that’s beyond conservation,” says the city of Santa Fe’s water conservation manager, Laurie Trevizo. “Our respect for water is an essential part of our identity. It’s not something we go and do. It’s how we live.”

Trevizo’s right. Ours is the community that pioneered the low-flow-toilet rebate.

Now, communities everywhere are following our lead. Now that almost all of those oldfashioned toilets have been replaced, we have to look for other ways to save.

Although many of my friends and colleagues are ready to make the transition to composting toilets, it’s doubtful that Mayor Javier Gonzales is ready to take Santa Fe as far forward as that. Still, an excellent place to find water conservation tips is at the city’s new website, www.savewatersantafe.com.

There, you’ll find over 50 ways to save.

Here are some of my personal favorite dos and don’ts for water lovers. They range from the almost mundane to the nearly revolutionary.

• Most restaurant goers know that water is provided to patrons only upon request. This is a symbolic gesture designed to start a conversations about conservation. It’s not really about saving water, so make sure to ask for some to stay hydrated at our altitude.

• Don’t let the faucet run while you shave, wash your hands or brush your teeth.

• With the exception of underwear, reuse clothing, sheets and towels before chucking them in the wash.

• Navy showers (a brief wet-down, followed by soap-down with the water off, followed by a brief rinse) not only save water, but such a short shower also gives you more time to get out and enjoy all of our wonderful New Mexico sunshine.

• Know that rebates are available from the City of Santa Fe for high-efficiency clothes washers and high-efficiency toilets (HET). These HET porcelain goddesses are not merely “low flow” like the 1.6-gallon flushers that came in during the first wave of toilet rebates. The new ones use 1.28-gallons per flush or less.

• Institutions should convert all urinals to waterless models. They work great, and they don’t stink if properly maintained.

• If you’ve got a leak, and you don’t know how to fix it, call the city at 505-955-4225. The staff will be happy to help.

• Report leaks and water waste. According to the EPA, one drip per second can waste 3,000 gallons per year. Call 505-955-4222 to report problems.

• Finally, if it’s yellow, well, you know the drill.

Just try not to splash, and put the seat down when you’re done.

Nate Downey is the author of Harvest the Rain (2010) and Roof-Reliant Landscaping (2008). Since 1998, he has written a monthly column called “Permaculture in Practice” for The New Mexican. He can be reached via permadesign.com.

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OUTDOORS • The full Santa Fe experience requires at least a little hiking. When you go, please stay on designated trails. Healthy topsoil is extremely limited in this brittle, arid environment, and the less we stomp all over our fragile watersheds the more absorbent our soils will be and the less erosion we will cause. This translates into healthier arroyos, streams and rivers.

• If you must have a lawn, consider plastic grass. It requires no watering, weeding, aerating, fertilizing or mowing.

• The best approach to landscaping is to avoid all forms of turf and to harvest stormwater runoff from your roof and driveway. By using passive water harvesting techniques like on-

contour swales, wicks, French drains and rain gardens, you can divert this resource to the root systems of drought-tolerant trees, shrubs and perennials.

• Build a compost pile. Even though compost requires water, you’ll ultimately conserve it by bringing life to the soil in your garden or landscape.

• You can also follow the steps in the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer’s free online book, Roof-Reliant Landscaping. It’s a peer-reviewed, step-by-step guide for designing and installing cistern systems for droughttolerant landscapes that can be independent of any water source other than the sky.

• Go to www.permadesign.com and click on “Tools.” You’ll find a quick and easy way to estimate how much water comes off your roof in an average year.

• Contact the Water Conservation Office at 505-955-4225 for an irrigation-efficiency evaluation and rebates up to $750.

• Recycling greywater (wastewater from bathroom sinks, showers and laundry — everything but the kitchen sink, dishwasher and toilet) in the landscape does not require a permit as long as you harvest it according to New Mexico Environment Department’s guidelines at www.nmenv.state.nm.us/ • Purchase food from local farmers. Although this may seem counterintuitive, it’s true. We need to encourage farmers to grow food for local human consumption and discourage the kind of industrial agriculture that has the effect of exporting “virtual” water to distant places.

• Support nonprofits like the Santa Fe Watershed Association, River Source, Amigos Bravos, WildEarth Guardians, the Quivira Coalition, Rio Grande Restoration and other groups that defend our watersheds.

• Get politically active. During the last legislative session, Senator Peter Wirth led a bipartisan effort to create transferable tax credits for cistern-system installations. The bill passed two committees (with only one “No” vote), but it never got a hearing in the Senate Finance Committee, so the measure failed. Please call finance committee chair, Senator John Arthur Smith at 575-546-4979, and ask him to support water harvesting.

These efforts create jobs, improve water quality, protect riparian habits and can make our homes and landscapes less dependent on our dwindling rivers, reservoirs and aquifers. So get involved — and don’t forget to drink your water.

The Official Multitasking of 2014.

With summer on its way, remember summer water restrictions for Santa Feans are in effect from May 1 to October 31.

During the summer months, don’t water your yard from 10 am to 6 pm and only water three days a week. You pick the days.

When you water when it’s hot, you lose water to evaporation, some gardeners say you will burn your plants, and you could be fined by the city.

Santa Fe is entering it’s fourth year of drought and forecasters say it’s not going to get better. To find out more about city water rules and ways to conserve, visit savewatersantafe.com.

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Scott Greenling and John Brown, with Positive Energy Inc., stack solar panels on the roof of the Santa Fe Community Convention Center in 2012.

For the Earth or the bottom line City takes steps to help make dent in climate change

BY STACI MATLOCK

improving urban planning.

The city of Santa Fe is aiming for more renewable energy, energyefficient buildings and solar-powering stations for electric vehicles.

Tax analyst Laird Graeser is aiming for the same, powering his super-insulated house with solar panels. He hopes that one day soon he’ll also be able to use the sun’s energy to power a car. For the city, these actions primarily are about doing its part to help save the planet and help its citizens adapt to climate change. For Graeser, it’s more about financial security over the long run than saving the planet. Regardless of the reasons, the city and local residents such as Graeser are taking the kinds of actions an international panel of scientists says are needed worldwide to slow down climate change.

The U.N. International Panel on Climate Change has released its latest climate change report in three sections over the last several months. In April, the panel published recommendations on how countries can reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and reduce climate change impacts.

Among those recommendations are increasing solar, wind and other renewable energy supplies, increasing the energy efficiency of buildings, using the most efficient manufacturing technology and

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Graeser, who has worked for the New Mexico Department of Taxation and Revenue and the New Mexico Tax Institute, approached the issue of a solar-powered, energy-efficient home as the numbers guy that he is. For him, he said, it was simply a sound investment for the future, when he and his wife will live on a fixed income.

He considered the likely increases in oil and natural gas prices.

He estimated how much Public Service Company of New Mexico was likely to raise his electricity rates. And he looked at how much it would cost him to power his energy-efficient home with solar panels.

Adding in the tax credits he could get from the state and federal government, “I calculated that the system would pay out in 11 years with a 4-cent-per-kilowatt-hour renewable energy credit,” Graeser said. “Our system is expected to function for 20 years with minimal maintenance. Then we can replace the panels and the inverters ... with better and cheaper technology.”

The couple only had to turn on their forced hot air for 10 days over the winter, and they are renovating a solar domestic hot water system.

Eventually, Graeser plans to reduce his transportation fuel costs to

zero with a plug-in hybrid electric car.

“All of these strategies are aimed at reducing our fixed costs to a minimum after we are no longer able to supplement our pensions with current income,” Graeser said.

Wrestling with sustainability The city has been thinking along the same lines as Graeser. Energyand water-efficient buildings are not only better for the environment but will cost homeowners, renters and businesses less money for utilities in the long run. Since food and gas prices are likely to keep going up, capping the cost of utilities is the one place where people can help their budgets.

The city already has approved a sustainable building code for new residential housing that requires developers to build energy- and water-efficient homes with good indoor air quality. A new sustainable code for home renovations and additions takes effect in August. A new sustainable building code for commercial buildings is almost finished, said Katherine Mortimer, planner and program manager for the city’s Sustainable Santa Fe plan.

Santa Fe’s steps to be more environmentally friendly may not make a big dent in climate change, but the city still finds it worth doing.

“I think Santa Fe sees itself not in isolation, but that this is a global issue and we all have contributed and have a responsibility to do what we can,” Mortimer said.

The city and nonprofits have addressed some of the easier aspects of sustainability. Residents and businesses use less water than they used to. There’s a new ban in place on thin plastic bags of the type that used to be handed out to grocery shoppers. With rebate incentives, more people have switched to energy-efficient appliances.

But energy efficiency and renewable energy are just a portion of building a sustainable place to live, Mortimer said.

When the city launched the Sustainable Santa Fe plan in 2008, it wanted to do more than reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It wanted to promote better-paying jobs, a better local food supply and safe neighborhoods. They’re all pieces of a complex puzzle that make a place sustainable, Mortimer said.

In October, the Santa Fe Food Policy Council released a draft plan for addressing the city’s “food future.”

Now officials are looking at how to foster more jobs and make neighborhoods safer, both pieces of the broader climate change puzzle.

She also noted the city’s decision to raise the local minimum wage.

“Social justice is often the piece that gets left out of sustainability,” Mortimer said. “If neighborhoods are not safe enough to bike or walk, people drive and use gas and produce greenhouse gas emissions. If parents don’t think their kids can safely walk to school, they drive them.”

The city’s attention to social justice is mirrored in advice to policymakers from the International Panel on Climate Change.

“While reducing climate change is necessary as part of an effort to fight poverty and boost sustainable development, some actions could have unintended consequences, like making lives of the poor harder,” the report said.

New report, same warnings The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change actually has few innovative ideas, according to a few local climate watchers who’ve slogged through some of its 1,000-plus pages.

They’re a little disappointed. “It’s pretty hard to get your arms around all its detailed information, but surprisingly, and perhaps a bit discouraging, there’s not much new,” retired geophysicist Charles “Chick” Keller said by email.

The climate has always gone through natural cycles of change, dating back to before humans painted pictures on cave walls. Ice ages came and went. Droughts have come and gone. Wildlife, plants and even people have adapted for hundreds of years.

But the international panel’s report said it’s almost certain that people are changing the climate more rapidly than normal by producing greenhouse gases such as methane and carbon dioxide from natural gas wells, coal-fired power plants and vehicles. The findings are based on decades of computer modeling, field studies, direct observations and experiments across a broad range of scientific fields.

Moreover, despite warnings, greenhouse gas emissions increased worldwide from 1970 to 2010.

Climate change will vary by region, and scientists still aren’t certain how fast those changes will occur. But scientists, planners and farmers in specific regions, such as the Southwest, can already point to disturbing signs of climate change, such as warmer winter temperatures and bug infestations that are wiping out large populations of piñon and other conifers.

Scientists say what lies ahead for New Mexico may be even more dire • Skiers and snowboarders will have shorter seasons to play as the winter snowpack dwindles and melts off faster than in past decades.

• Farmers will have to plant fewer acres or plant crops that can survive on less water.

• Cities and towns will need to prepare for bigger, more damaging storm events like the ones that flooded southern Colorado and New Mexico last fall. That means updating water, sewer and drainage systems and utilities to handle more catastrophic weather events.

“There will be more precipitation, but the rains are likely to come in large storms where the water runs off the land quickly and doesn’t sink in,” Keller said. “Further, because it’s hotter, the moisture in the soil evaporates more readily, further drying the soil.”

• Temperatures on average are warming in the Southwest, especially the winter nights.

• Extended periods of drought will continue stressing trees, making them more vulnerable to insect infestations and wildfires, which have increased dramatically in size and frequency in the last decade.

“We’re starting to see changes very different from what people remember growing up here,” Mortimer said. “That makes climate change more real for people who might not think about it otherwise.”

Contact Staci Matlock at 986-3055 or smatlock@sfnewmexican. com. Follow her on Twitter @stacimatlock.

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IMPACT INVESTING gives Santa Fe Community Foundation a vital tool

BY BRUCE KRASNOW For Brian Byrnes and the board of the Santa Fe Community Foundation, it’s really quite simple: They are here to grow the communities in Northern New Mexico, not up the profits on Wall Street.

As a result, a concept known as impact investing, with assets invested locally, is a logical move forward for the foundation, which works to strengthen nonprofits and expand services through collaboration, education, training and giving.

Impact investing gives the foundation a vital tool as it works to make a difference, said Byrnes, the organization’s president and CEO. “We see this as a beginning, a first step into this area; we want to signal there are ways to have an impact besides grant making,” he said. As the program evolves, Byrnes said it can bring a significant amount of new money into Santa Fe—especially if other foundations embrace the idea.

The impact investment movement started in community foundations a decade ago. One of the first to move forward with it was the Vermont Community Foundation, where Byrnes worked before coming to Santa Fe. The philosophy is to take investment money and loan it out locally with low interest for a set time period, and to get a predictable return much like a bond or a fixed-income mutual fund.

SFCF is one of the smallest to embrace the concept, said Jon Quinn, the foundation’s donor services and initiatives manager, who has researched the topic. “We are paving the way for small community foundations to do this,” Quinn said.

The foundation’s plan is to start small by placing 5 percent of its pooled assets into local impact projects—some $2 million initially.

The first loan of $250,000 was made in February to Homewise, so that the nonprofit housing organization could expand the dollars going to families needing home improvement loans.

Like other community foundations, SFCF is a compendium of hundreds of small donor-supported initiatives, many rooted in specific educational or cultural areas that individuals or families want to sustain over generations. For example, there is a fund to help professional artists pay for their emergency medical care. Another, according to the Foundation website, exists to help “individuals of low or moderate income with veterinarian expenses related to cancer care for their pet including chemotherapy, radiation treatment, pain management and supportive care.”

To fund these efforts, Santa Fe Community Foundation invests its donated dollars carefully. The earnings are spent, but the core principal is retained. Many small donors who want to establish a philanthropic legacy turn to the foundation, not only for its expertise in managing programs, but for its investment expertise as well, and its pursuit of due diligence and financial surety. “Donors put their money with us because they trust us, so we have to do this very well,” Byrnes said.

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Quinn said $61 billion is managed by community foundations nationwide. Some notable impact projects include: • The Cleveland Foundation is investing $3 million in an initiative to develop worker-owned cooperative businesses.

• The Denver Foundation is investing $7.5 million for energy-efficient upgrades in a tenant-owned building.

• The Napa Valley Foundation is allocating $500,000 for the purchase of a power plant at a local hospital.

In Santa Fe, the Homewise loan program assists low- and middleincome families so they can hire contractors for needed repairs such as stucco, roofing, heating and ventilation. It serves all qualified homeowners, not just those who purchased through Homewise. The program has advantages, as closing costs and interest rates may be lower than through a traditional bank or credit union, and the loan proceeds go directly to the project contractor.

Homewise has 120 outstanding loans so far, and the Santa Fe Community Foundation investment could mean another 16 families receiving loan money. That money will then ripple through the economy with construction jobs and gross receipts tax spending.

“This is a big deal for us (and) it’s the first time a foundation in New Mexico has done it,” said Mike Loftin, executive director of Homewise. “Our big challenge is raising capital to meet needs. We’ve raised a lot of money from banks, and banks have been good. But this gives another way for philanthropic people to invest in these programs and invest for a return.”

Joohee Rand, a Harvard-educated MBA who directs strategic initiatives at SFCF, is the point person for making sure results meet certain benchmarks. In the Homewise program, for instance, she wants not only to guarantee the money is loaned to families of modest means at reasonable terms and then repaid, but that it helps build financial security by boosting home equity and perhaps credit scores.

Kenneth Romero, a vice president of New Mexico Bank and Trust in Santa Fe who sits on the foundation board, said nonprofits can borrow from a bank, but the foundation is in a position to be more flexible with loan terms and fees, and more creative in its approach.

Plus, impact investing brings more capital into Santa Fe at a time when banks might be limited.

“We have another $1.5 million to deploy, we’ve set that aside, and it’s open to investors,” Romero said. He hopes some of that can be used to leverage capital from other sources so the foundation can collaborate with the private sector or a nonprofit. “It creates synergy,” he said.

Byrnes calls philanthropy the research and development wing of social change. “There’s a lot of experimentation going on in the world of philanthropy, there are many things emerging all the time. There’s enormous need and enormous potential for creativity.”

Bruce Krasnow is assistant city and features editor of The Santa Fe New Mexican. Contact him at brucek@sfnewmexican.com.

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FARMERS MARKETS

THE ULTIMATE GREEN SHOPPING EXPERIENCE STORY BY STANLEY CRAWFORD PHOTOS BY GENE PEACH In the years before refrigerated rail cars and semi trucks and even transport jets, cities had to supply themselves with fresh produce and meat and dairy products from within a relatively small radius of country. All that began to change with the advent of the refrigerated rail car in the late 1800s. Today, major cities can exist upon a global agricultural base with few or no local producers. Cheap fossil fuels make this possible.

The farmers’ market movement was perhaps one of the first efforts at “relocalization” — the attempt either to re-establish or preserve local farms and dairies and livestock operations. The most wellknown farmers markets date from the 1960s and 1970s, including New York City’s Greenmarkets and the Santa Fe Farmers Market.

Some of the more established markets, including Santa Fe again, succeeded in establishing permanent sites in the form of buildings and shed structures on public municipal land. Some markets are actually managed by the municipalities they serve. There are now more than 8,000 farmers markets in the country, 60 of which are in New Mexico — ten times the number in operation in the 1970s.

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There are several reasons for the exponential growth of farmers markets. It is said that supermarkets have a three-day supply of goods on hand, suggesting that in the event of major disruption in transportation networks, most cities would be vulnerable to rapid food shortages. Farmers markets have more supply. Farms also can help preserve greenbelts and curb suburban sprawl. In terms of energy use, it is far less wasteful to transport produce 50 or 100 miles than the 1,500 miles much produce now travels — or many times that in the winter, in the case of fresh delicacies and fruit flown from Chile, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Market gardeners and farmers, besides learning basic entrepreneurial skills, are constantly tinkering with new agricultural varieties and irrigation and season extending techniques adapted to local climates and microclimates. Information quickly spreads throughout the market community, which includes many customers who have their own garden plots.

I like to think of farmers markets as collective information systems, in which growers and producers exchange information with customers on how to grow plants and raise chickens and other livestock, how to prepare and preserve food, and what to look for in appearance

and ripeness and taste. Many customers are sensitive to production methods, whether chemical herbicides and pesticides and fertilizers have been applied to fields or not. This is information they can count on receiving in face-to-face exchanges with growers. Other than farm signs, descriptive signs and price lists, farmers markets also are free of wasteful packaging and labels and promotional displays.

Information, not hype, is what farmers’ markets are about, and face-toface exchanges with the actual producers, not simply with hourly-wage clerks. The exchange is often two-way: as a grower, I receive a steady stream of culinary and even planting tips from my customers.

While visiting other farmers markets around the country some years back, I discovered that there were two major kinds. There are farmers markets which are excellent markets in large urban settings with great produce and products, and then there are markets which have an important community function as meeting and mingling places. Santa Fe is one of the latter, as are probably most of the other New Mexico markets.

In these days of economic and social ghettoization and political polarization, a public space where rich and poor and middle class rub shoulders with each other is increasingly important for the maintenance of a sense of civility and tolerance essential for the necessary compromises of a democratic society. Customers, who more habitually deal with corporations in the form of national chains, can interact with producers who are, in effect, their equals. Some customers like to haggle, and some farmers will bargain and give deals. This doesn’t happen at Whole Foods or WalMart.

In a society that celebrates entrepreneurship, small market farmers and growers are on the front line. They are ruled by the demands of the market on the one hand and Nature on the other — Nature in the form of precipitation, drought, insects and temperature swings. Many have chosen an insecure but relatively independent life, largely spend outdoors, over the corporate or governmental desk job in an office cubicle and the promise, a little shaky now, of a lifetime of financial security. But within the market community, there is another kind of security, that of a group of caring friends and acquaintances alert to when things are not going well with any individual producer.

It’s something of a family community.

The Santa Fe Farmers Market now operates three sessions.

Saturday Market: 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Railyard.

Tuesday Market: 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Railyard.

Tuesday Southside Market (July-September): 3 p.m.-6:30 p.m., Santa Fe Place Mall, Zafarano Drive entrance.

Other nearby markets:

Eldorado: 4-6 p.m. from June 6, La Tienda Parking Lot. Pojoaque (from the last Wednesday in May):

11 a.m.-5 p.m., Poeh Cultral Center.

Los Alamos (from the first Thursday in May):

7 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Mesa Public Library.

Española: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday from June 9 through Oct. 27; 2-7 p.m.

Friday from July 18 through September 19, parking lot at 1005 N. Railroad Avenue.

Details and other farmers market locations can be found on the websites of the Santa Fe Farmers Market (santafefarmersmarket.com) and the New Mexico Farmers’ Marketing Association (farmersmarketsnm.org).

Stanley Crawford has written and farmed in Northern New Mexico since 1969. His website is stanleycrawford.net.

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