Rio Grande Chapter

The December 2018 featured artist Rickey Richardson will be showing her collage art in “Sense of Sight,” opening December 7, 6-8 pm. Rickey has a BFA from the U of Washington and an MFA from Pratt Institute. She has been creating multi-media art for many years, and has shown her work at Queens Museum in NY. The work will hang through January at the Albuquerque office (2215 Lead Ave SE). The work will hang through January. 30% of sales benefit the ...

Please join the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter and the Bosque Action Team for the Big Bosque Bash and Election Celebration! This is a holiday party to celebrate our election success and our wonderful bosque. The Bash will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, December 8, at the ever-hospitable Tortuga Gallery, 901 Edith SE in Albuquerque. There will be a silent auction, music from The Laughing Remains, poetry from Albuquerque’s Poet Laureate, Michelle Otero, food, community, just a bit of discussion about the challenges that the bosque is facing in the warmer future, and ...

John Buchser is the water issues chair for the Chapter, and immediate past chapter chair.  He retired in 2016 as computer system architect for the NM Office of the State Engineer.  John initially got involved in the Club in the early 1980’s working for better public lands protections. He is currently particularly interested in supporting endorsed political candidates, staying abreast of current developments in water (like funding the strategic water reserve and pursuing a state water plan that actually PLANS), ...

I am a retired professor of music (violinist/symphony conductor) living in El Paso for forty-nine years now. A Sierra Club member since 1981 and dedicated backpacker, I have served as El Paso Group Chair and Rio Grande Chapter Secretary for nineteen years now. I serve out of a feeling of obligation to “preserve and protect” our world. My philosophy is that small contributions from many of us will get the job done. I’m a grass-roots guy who believes the club ...

Opponents will rally at the BLM headquarters in Santa Fe on December 5, one day ahead of Thursday's planned online sale that includes 46,000 acres in the culturally significant Greater Chaco region ...

As our 55th-anniversary year comes to a close, we’d are featuring profiles of some of our Life Members, who make the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter what it is. From Madeline Aron:  The first 10 years of my life were spent in the Berkshire Hills in Lenox, Massachusetts. My parents were 1st-generation Eastern European Jewish-Americans. They established a culturally and racially inclusive hotel and arts center  that helped change the discriminatory practices of the area. With the down payment given to them ...

Candidate profiles for the three 2018 candidates for Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter Executive Committee. Chapter members will elect three positions on the executive committee. Laurence Gibson I am a retired professor of music (violinist/symphony conductor) living in El Paso for 49 years now. A Sierra Club member since 1981 and dedicated backpacker, I have served as El Paso Group Chair and Rio Grande Chapter Secretary for 19 years now. I serve out of a feeling of obligation to “preserve ...

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On Wednesday, Nov. 14, starting at 8 a.m. Mountain, an array of New Mexicans are testifying at a public hearing in Denver, speaking out against the Trump administration’s plan to gut EPA’s New Source Performance Standards for oil and gas facilities.  Their testimony will be live-streamed at www.facebook.com/NMSierraClub/.  ...

We need your help! Please attend the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission Hearing on Monday, Nov. 19 in Santa Fe to oppose a rule change that would allow natural-gas companies to drill twice the wells in the same space in New Mexico ...