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    Month: December 2015

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    From Paris to Santa Fe – event photos

    On December 12, we rallied with 350NM and Santa Fe coalition partners to celebrate the #Parisagreement and push for 100% #CleanEnergy. It was cold and rainy, but the marchers were clearly celebrating progress. [nemus_slider id=”2488″] For more climate march photos, visit 350NewMexico’s Facebook album.

    Ellen Loehman December 15, 2015December 15, 2015 Read more

    News from the NM Game Commission

    Photo of gray wolf

    At its November meeting, the New Mexico Game Commission decided not to decide on the Ladder Ranch permit to hold endangered Mexican gray wolves. Previously, the commission denied the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service a permit to import and release

    Ellen Loehman December 15, 2015 Read more

    New Mexicans in Paris: Global evangelicals embrace climate action

    New Mexicans in Paris: Global evangelicals embrace climate action

    Aaron Taylor, a Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter volunteer and producer of “We Know Not What We Do,” is attending the Paris Climate Conference and a number of faith events related to it. “It may be unusual to hear this

    Mona Blaber December 11, 2015November 13, 2018 Read more

    Recycling in El Paso – Citizen Collection Stations

    Recycling in El Paso – Citizen Collection Stations

    Did you know that El Paso residents (No commercial business / contractors) can take trash, household hazardous waste, and bulky items to one of four public drop-off locations, known as Citizen Collection Stations, within the city. Trash is collected at

    combatbutter December 10, 2015July 9, 2019 Read more

    El Paso Sierra Club endorses new effort to establish US Mexico International Park

    El Paso Sierra Club endorses new effort  to establish US Mexico International Park

    An unprecedented ceremony held at Chamizal National Memorial in El Paso commemorated the 80th anniversary of the first signed agreement between the United States and Mexico allowing for “the creation and operation of International Parks, Forests, and Wild Life Preserves

    combatbutter December 6, 2015July 9, 2019 Read more

    Stop El Paso Electric’s War On Solar

    solar energy map

    Update: The El Paso City Council unanimously recommended rejecting every single aspect of El Paso Electric’s rate increases, including the solar penalties. The case still has to go through the Public Utilities Commission, and we will update you on how

    Ellen Loehman December 5, 2015July 9, 2019 Read more

    Victory! U.S. Fish & Wildlife to release Mexican wolves in N.M.

    New Mexico lobos win! The New Mexico Game Commission voted Sept. 29 to deny the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service a permit to release more wolves into the Gila, despite overwhelming public opposition and science indicating that the wild wolf

    Mona Blaber December 4, 2015December 4, 2015 Read more

    Stop the zombie uranium mine on Mount Taylor

    Stop the zombie uranium mine on Mount Taylor

    Rio Grande Resources is applying to reactivate the uranium mine on Mount Taylor, a volcano north of Grants that is sacred to several Native American tribes and pueblos. The mine was closed in 1992 but has received four standby permits

    Mona Blaber December 4, 2015July 9, 2019 Read more

    Bosque Bash – December 13

    Bosque Bash 2014

    Join us for music, refreshments, and good company! The Bosque Action Team has now been work for three years to protect our Rio Grande Bosque as natural space in our city and for its people. We can’t do that work

    Ellen Loehman December 1, 2015December 31, 2015 Read more

    March for clean-energy SOLutions – December 12

    SOL, not coal

    The nations of the world will meet in Paris to find common action on protecting our planet and its climate for future generations. We’ll spread the message of climate hope teaching our friends and neighbor about how we can give

    Ellen Loehman December 1, 2015December 31, 2015 Read more
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