Through a bit of last minute subterfuge, a bill is headed to the Governor’s desk that will undermine seed sovereignty and benefit Monsanto. Thanks to Tewa Women United and NM Food and Seed Sovereignty Alliance we have the details for the bill and the phone number for calling the Governor to ask her to veto…
In the next two days we will have action alerts for calling the Governor, today about a bill that would allow G&O to treat toxic fracked water and sell it for use on NM agriculture. Is there no end to the degree to which this industry will seek to exploit our land and water?
There will be a good deal of finger pointing, but as is laid out in this post, the blame for this falls with Democratic leadership from the Governor to the leadership of each chamber and many committees.
Climate Change, Agriculture, Land Use & Wildlife / Economic Justice, Community & Economic Development
This post describes our need to take control of the banking, fossil fuel and utility industries to address climate change adequately. After hearing Dar Jamail speak at the Lensic, I convinced that whatever hope we have requires the end of private market control over anything that matters.We also include a Roundhouse Roundup and news about…
Dahr Jamail will be at the Lensic tomorrow night and so today we offer a preview of his thinking on activism in the age of extinction. It is not an easy read, but for those who want to face reality honestly, it is an important, moving, and illuminating perspective.As species die off rapidly it is…
For the next week, we all need to put all our energy into pushing hard for the many bills that remain teetering between extinction and law and last week sheds light on how best to do this, but today I want to plant a seed as to what may lie ahead. We have seen that…
We include news on a nationwide student strike for climate change on Friday, including here in Santa Fe with Santa Fe strikers speaking at Collected Works at 11am today. Critical election reform bills being heard today in Senate Rules and a NY Times Op-Ed and two very compelling video depicting why we don’t get what…
Retake has reiterated the need for new systems that will facilitate a just transition to a no-growth economy. This guest blog by Julia Adeney Thomas lays out clearly how a new innovation or technological solution is not going to address the complexity of impacts from human misuse and overuse of resources. This article is not…
Last week I wrote about how we need to vastly reduce our use of one-use plastics in part due to our inability to recycle plastic and in part due to plastic’s reliance upon fracking. And then Roxanne sent me this Inside Climate News article on a series of massive plastics plants being planned along the…
A Roundhouse update with SB 489 (being heard today), and a reprise of last week’s blogs, including an extraordinary blog on the power of gas and oil lobbyists, another on the myth that our plastic is being recycled, and another on alternatives to privately owned utilities and the benefits of publicly owned health, education, transportation,…
Today we examine how we are not only facing an environmental crisis, but an economic one as well, both stemming from the same neo-liberal assumptions and the same privatized world that removes most of us from any influence on how things are done. This post also proposes a solution: democratizing business and commerce.
“The sky is falling,” is NM Oil & Gas Association’s persistent claim any time the legislature tries to address climate change. This post exposes the moral bankruptcy of an industry that is fine with trading 2019 profits for the future of children born in 2019. It also calls upon Democratic leadership to fund a study…
Recycling will never solve the consequences of over-consumption. We are now poisoning the air by incinerating plastic and dumping trash at horrifying levels directly into the ocean. With China no longer accepting our recycling, we need to examine closely our single use of plastic and paper. Remember, when we throw things away, there is no…
In addition, we provide an action alert about visiting Rep. Ben Ray Lujan’s Santa Fe office to advocate for his sponsoring the Green New Deal. But the big news is not just that SB 489 passed a committee, but that Senator Cervantes clearly exposed all its confusing and contradictory language. The goals of the bill…
In our recent posts, we have featured the views of those left out of the crafting of SB 489, PRC Commissioners, New Energy Economy, and now an alliance of Indigenous Peoples of the Southwest. Their statement is more powerful than anything I’ve seen. Hearing is tomorrow at 9 a.m. We need you and we need…
