Rio Grande Chapter

From Denise Fort,
Rio Grande Chapter Energy & Climate Change Chair On November 29th the Santa Fe County Commission unanimously passed a resolution directing the staff to support efforts to end trapping on federal lands within the County and additionally to support state legislative efforts to ban trapping. At the hearing on the resolution a parade of witnesses talked about the cruelty of trapping, the economic value of wildlife, especially in a state like our’s, and how trapping has interfered with ...

Come celebrate endings & new beginnings. Featuring:

• Wine, drinks & refreshments
• Invocation from Standing Rock with Jim Klukkert & John Buchner
• Our honored speaker is our newly-elected Secretary of State, Maggie Toulouse-Oliver
• Hiking books on sale at $15

Date and Time: Saturday , December 10, 2016  5:00 PM  – 7:00 PM
Location: Santa Fe Women’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail in Santa Fe   Map | Directions You MUST RSVP by December 7 to Alice Cox at 505-780-5122 or auntiealice@cybermesa.com Featured image from Angi English. ...

Sierra Club member Gary Kowalski is organizing a series of gatherings to press for a boycott of Phillips/Conoco and their relationship to the DAPL (Dakota Access Pipeline). “Phillips is one of the biggest investors in the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the 5th is the date when demonstrators have been warned to vacate their camp and relocate to “free-speech zones” or face criminal charges, in addition to the water cannons, rubber bullets, attack dogs and concussion grenades they have already endured,” ...

Several members of the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter have made the trip to the Oceti Sakowin camp at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. Below are some reports from the site: Nov. 21, 2016 (John Buchser):
Last night was pretty surreal. My wife, Linda, and I have been at Rosebud Camp, on Cannon Ball River just across from Oceti Sakowin camp. Maybe 3,000 folks at the three camps, growing a lot Saturday and Sunday with folks from ...

December’s First Friday art event at the Central Group office is From Cityscape to Landscape: The Paintings of Karen Canon. Refreshments will be provided and the work will hang through January. Please join us for this fun, free event! When: December 2, 6-8 pm
Where: Sierra Club office, 2215 Lead Ave SE, Albuquerque Contact Heather Kline at (505) 577-2798 for more information, or if you are an artist interested in showing your work in our gallery ...

Come celebrate endings & new beginnings Saturday, December 10th, 5:00 -7:00 pm at the Santa Fe Women’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail in Santa Fe Wine, drinks & refreshments
Featuring: Invocation from Standing Rock with Jim Klukkert & John Buchner
Our honored speaker is our newly-elected Secretary of State, Maggie Toulouse-Oliver
Hiking Books on Sale at $15 RSVP required by December 7th – Alice Cox at 505-780-5122 or auntiealice@cybermesa.com ...

Update: The commission voted unanimously in favor of the resolution! Thanks to everyone who wrote their commissioners and/or attended the meeting. The Santa Fe County Commission will be meeting on Tues, Nov. 29, to consider a resolution directing county staff to advocate for trap-free federal lands within the county. Please attend this meeting to voice your support! The resolution means that county personnel could lobby the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and elected state and federal officials to ...

This holiday season, we must unite around clean and renewable energy more than ever. Join us for the second year at the Nob Hill Holiday Stroll. We’ll spread the message of climate hope, showing our friends and neighbors that we can give the gift of clean and renewable energy to our children and all future generations. We’ll gather at Triangle Park and stroll up Central to Carlisle and back singing “Clean Climate carols.” Please join and share the event on ...

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By Fred Houdek,
Central New Mexico Group chair The Bosque Action Team continues to meet monthly, and our hikes and activities in the Bosque are increasing in attendance. The City of Albuquerque has begun the public-input process on Phase 3 of the multi-use trail between Campbell Road and Montaño. The city proposed four alternative route alignments for the trail. The alternatives were to be presented and reviewed at a public meeting on July 26. Just days before the meeting, ...

By Camilla Feibelman, Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter director  We’re all feeling gutted by the national election results, and as we take time to process, we also must prepare to fight. But here in New Mexico, your hard work for our endorsed candidates paid off, and we won a solid pro-environment majority in both the state House and Senate. With our newly elected Legislature, we can…

• Pass a Renewable Energy Act amendment to require 50% renewable energy in New ...
  
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