Things don’t stay the same the more they change. Alphonse Karr’s sentiment that plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose just ain’t true. It’s a tempting proverbial trope, but despite a strange counter-entropic force toward hegemonic sameness, things do change.

A plot for New Mexico’s salvation: From March 11 to 12, Bioneers held the Dreaming New Mexico Food System Summit and something of a soft launch for Dreaming New Mexico’s road map to “an age of local foodsheds and a fair trade state.”

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Inspired by the recent flush of community gardens in parks, neighborhoods and affordable housing developments, Earth Care International is preparing to launch a mobile toolshed.

For my vacation, I flew to Arizona, rented a car, drove out to the kind of rural town where broken-down machinery is thought of as sculpture and my iPhone is only useful as a small cheese board, and paid someone hundreds of dollars so that I could do days of back-breaking labor for him.

The future really ought to be now. If 2010 isn’t the future, we don’t know what is and we’re starting to get suspicious about whether or not it’s ever going to show up. New Mexico’s future has to do with more than just Virgin Galactic’s spaceport and Chevron’s 1 megawatt concentrating photovoltaic power array—there are a host of local and regional initiatives we’re also waiting around for that aim to improve daily life and local living.

It was a masticatory week for Santa Fe’s restaurants

Local isn’t a cult. Local isn’t a contest. You don’t have to do without if you can’t find it in town. You needn’t limit your diet to what you can forage in your backyard or things you can kill with a stick.

We know the lucky winners in our municipal elections are going on to grueling and thankless jobs in local politics, but what about the arguably luckier losers? Should they vanish back into the fabric of the city or is it possible that their respective campaigns have revealed new potential roles in government, activism and business?

The same Senate that failed to close corporate tax loopholes or marginally increases taxes for the wealthiest citizens, wants to nickel-and-dime New Mexico's Organic Commodities Commission to the tune of $172,000—a 36 percent cut from its requested budget. Is it worth the damage to a $45 million industry.