Flagstaff AGWA (Action Group for Water Advocacy)

Flagstaff AGWA (Action Group for Water Advocacy) Especially in the arid Southwest, water is life! Yet the best estimates indicate that our water supply will be insufficient in a few decades.

Through community building and advocacy, we aim to inspire smart water use on campus and throughout the greater Flagstaff community, promoting conservation of our water resources to ensure clean water accessible to current and future generations. The Action Group for Water Advocacy (AGWA) brings together Friends of Flagstaff Future members and Friends of Flagstaff Future’s NAU Student Chapter, stu

dents from the EcoHouse Learning Community, graduate students from the MA Sustainable Communities Program, and community members to address one of Flagstaff’s most pressing and often controversial concerns: water use. Precisely because water is so precious, it is the center of much debate both historically and today. AGWA takes on this crucial issue, examining the local and regional implications of the world water crisis, exploring current water use questions, contamination and pollution issues, and supports local efforts to use water more sustainably. Both on and off campus, AGWA helps community members access and benefit from water-saving strategies and innovations – like switching from bottled water to “Taking Back the Tap,” harvesting rain water, employing permaculture landscaping and urban-agricultural techniques, creating responsible local water-use policies, and more! AGWA looks at where Flagstaff’s water comes from, where it goes, and with whom it is shared. This team strives to better understand the roots of water issues in Flagstaff and works actively toward resolving them in an inclusive, collaborative way

11/14/2017

NAU chapter Take Back the Tap works to encourage students and faculty to reuse plastic water bottles to eliminate waste.

"Oil companies in California produce tons of wastewater. On average, for every barrel of oil, a California oil well prod...
08/05/2017

"Oil companies in California produce tons of wastewater. On average, for every barrel of oil, a California oil well produces 19 barrels of water, often laden with salts, trace metals and chemicals like benzene."
“There are thousands of wells spread all across the state that are potentially impacting clean drinking water."

For years, California regulators mistakenly allowed oil companies to put their wastewater in protected aquifers.

07/05/2017

Join us this Fall in the garden! We're looking forward to a diverse group of students and attendees. Please share widely with all burgeoning gardeners!

Grow a Better World (SUS 599- 1 credit)
Led by Jan Busco, M.S., NAU Horticulturist/Campus Organic Gardener

Readings and coursework begin on 8/21/17.
In-person workshops meet in the SSLUG Garden on:
Friday, 9/8, 2- 5pm
Saturday, 9/9, 9-4 pm
Sunday, 9/10, 9-4 pm


How do we use practical botany to create beauty and make a healthier, better world? How can we work with the biology found in our own neighborhoods to build community and make positive change? This course will cover agrarian skills including basic botany and horticulture, food and wildlife gardening, land restoration and reclamation as seen through the lens of reconciliation ecology. Participants will participate in hands-on learning in the Students for Sustainable Living and Urban Garden (SSLUG) to develop skills and acquire principles that can be used as practical tools for positive change. Offered for one credit* OR $125 workshop fee for community members.

Instructor Biography:
NAU Horticulturalist and SSLUG Gardens Coordinator Jan Busco has been practicing environmental horticulture since 1985. She received a Master's Degree in Forestry from NAU and a BS in Horticulture. She has worked with Grand Canyon National Park, The Arboretum at Flagstaff, Mountain Meadow Permaculture Farm and the Museum of Northern Arizona. She is co-author of two books, Native Plants for High-Elevation Western Gardens (Fulcrum Press, 2004, 2012) and First Gardens: How to Get Started in Southwestern Gardening (2007).

"Across the long story of our civilization, we've never faced something like climate change. It's global. It's long term...
06/02/2017

"Across the long story of our civilization, we've never faced something like climate change. It's global. It's long term. It affects everyone, and everyone is responsible in some way."
"There is a great deal of fragility in the multiple overlapping networks on which our project of civilization depends (food, energy, economic, communication). If things fall on the "really hard" side of the spectrum, then consequences like a collapse of those systems is not unimaginable."

The Trump administration's choice to leave the Paris climate deal will have consequences that will not be measured in election cycles or decades or even generations, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

"There are no major factories or towns within 3,100 miles of the island, the scientists say. So all that trash — more th...
05/21/2017

"There are no major factories or towns within 3,100 miles of the island, the scientists say. So all that trash — more than 17 tons of it, with thousands of new individual pieces arriving each day — travels long distances through the ocean before arriving on the white-sand beaches."

Researchers found more than 17 tons of plastic debris on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. It's some 3,000 miles from the nearest big city, but ocean currents bring a steady supply of trash.

04/25/2017

A Call to Life is coming!

"A Call to Life: Variations on a Theme of Extinction"--the fierce, moving spoken word and piano performance by philosopher and nature writer Kathleen Dean Moore (Great Tide Rising: Toward Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Uncertainty) and internationally acclaimed pianist Rachelle McCabe. It's a free and moving event. Don't miss it!

Monday, April 24, 7:00-8:00 in NAU's Ardrey Auditorium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoYppWrvC3U

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04/19/2017

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Meet us at SBS west this Friday for the SSLUG Garden seeding:
April 21st1-3pm! No experience required

Jan Busco
NAU Horticulturalist / Campus Organic Gardener
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Norhern Arizona University
P.O. Box 15700
Flagstaff, AZ 86011

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03/22/2017

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Get involved! Uplift is a community of young people working to address climate justice and conservation issues on the Colorado Plateau. Below is more information about Uplift and how to get involved:

We host an annual conference for young people across the plateau, and we work to connect and support young people in climate justice advocacy.

We are now accepting applications to join the Uplift 2017 Organizing Team! We are looking for a diverse group of young leaders (age 18-30) who are passionate about climate justice and youth empowerment on the Colorado Plateau.

Apply now by filling this application form, and sending a resume and cover letter to [email protected]. All applications are due April 7th by 5 pm.

If you have any questions, please email [email protected].

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