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Category Archives: Navajoland
Water Treatment: Forward Osmosis
Osmosis is the transport of water across a selectively permeable membrane from a region of higher water chemical potential to a region of lower water chemical potential. And Forward Osmosis (FO), according to Wikipedia is: . . . an … Continue reading
Water and Energy Modules for Navajo Outposts
On August 12th, I was given a tour of a solar-powered water and energy supply module designed to provide modern amenities for Navajos living in isolated locales in the Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. The demonstration unit was designed and … Continue reading
Posted in "Green" Homes, Drinking Water, Navajoland, Technology
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Navajo “First Laugh” Ceremony
The third weekend in May, a small group of volunteers from Engineers Without Borders worked in a remote canyon northeast of Page AZ. The Navajos living in the canyon are some of the most remote members of their tribe. Access is … Continue reading
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Constructing Unique Homes in Navajoland
On Thursday, May 12th, I witnessed the designbuildBluff staff and volunteers (an ngo which constructs homes in southern Utah for Navajos) move a partially completed home from their headquarters in Bluff Ut to its final resting point in Westwater, adjacent … Continue reading
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Arches and Natural Bridges around Navajo Mountain, Utah
While doing reconnaisance work around Dasha Canyon, north of Navajo Mountain, we took aerial photographs of 4 little known natural arches/bridges (excluding Rainbow Bridge). We have subsequently found names for 2 of the arches/bridges: All 4 natural … Continue reading
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Tensions in San Juan County, UT
Jim Stiles in a recent op-ed piece in High Country News (21 Feb 2011) titled “Words that reverberate, words that hate” commented on what he feels is the escalating, deteriorating, and polarizing rhetoric that is occuring around San Juan County, … Continue reading
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Volunteering with the Navajos
Two weeks ago, I spent 10 days with 50 student volunteers from the College of Eastern Utah, Brigham Young University, and the University of Utah. The students were accompanied by an assortment of professionals from Engineers Without Borders, the Bureau of Reclamation, and … Continue reading
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Lighting Up Diablo Canyon, Arizona
According an article by Cindy Yurth in the Navajo Times (22 Dec 2011): [Paula] Curtis is the first beneficiary of the Plateau Solar Project, a partnership between Navajo nonprofit IINA Solutions, Mark Snyder Electric and Global Solar Water Power Systems. … Continue reading
Kiddie-dipping
The following is a quote from the biography of Lowell Bennion: Even Joseph Field Smith had agreed with Lowell on the dubious practiced of “kiddie-dipping” during the Moyle Baseball missionary years of the late 1950s and early 1960s. A returned … Continue reading
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Cameron AZ (aka the Moon)
In the distance, we could see an expansive black lava flow and, behind it, there was an ancient volcanic crater. As we passed over the lave flow, the NASA lunar simulation site came into view. It was much more involved than we had … Continue reading
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