AltWeeklies Wire
The New Normalnew
The world’s climate has already changed. Now what?
Santa Fe Reporter |
Laura Paskus |
07-15-2011 |
Environment
Water: Worst-Case Scenarios, What-Ifs, Heroes and Wastersnew
Humankind’s most recently scheduled date with the apocalypse came and went without much fanfare. But in New Mexico this year, with fire scorching the ground, smoke filling the air and drought settling in, it doesn’t exactly feel like we’ve gotten off scot-free.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Zane Fischer |
06-21-2011 |
Environment
Rise of the She-Fish?new
With rising incidents of fish feminization, scientists want to know if contaminants are impacting the endangered silvery minnow in the Rio Grande.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Laura Paskus |
08-25-2010 |
Environment
The Permaculture Credit Union Might Be America’s Greenest Banknew
Within a month of becoming president of the Santa Fe-based Permaculture Credit Union—a unique financial institution based, as the name suggests, on eco-friendly principles—Don Sarich had his first encounter with a skeptical government regulator.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Corey Pein |
03-11-2010 |
Environment
New Mexico's Environmental Horrors Could Lead to a Scary Sci-Fi Futurenew
In New Mexico, environmental horrors abound. Corporations influence the government's ability to regulate environmental emergencies, people who might otherwise be allies have faced off against one another in battle, and climate change is already punching its tentacles into the Southwestern landscape.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Laura Paskus |
10-29-2009 |
Environment
New Mexico's Youth May be its Best Chance for Transforming its Economy -- and Futurenew
Many on the local frontlines of the green-jobs movement believe the chasm between rhetoric and reality is growing. They say the state's best hope for transformation -- environmental and economic -- may lie with its youth.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Laura Paskus |
10-01-2009 |
Environment
Power Plant Opponents in New Mexico Say it's Time to Get Over Coalnew
Proponents of the Desert Rock power plant say it will create 1,000 construction jobs and then approximately 200 permanent jobs once it's up and running. But the region already has three coal-fired power plants which are considered among the dirtiest plants in the country.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Laura Paskus |
12-18-2008 |
Environment
Tags: New Mexico, energy, environment, pollution, power plants, Navajo, coal, Desert Rock, Indian reservations
Enviros Brace for Bush's Last Actsnew
The Bush administration is pushing a number of rule changes to take effect before Inauguration Day: easing restrictions on power plants, allowing factory farms to skirt the Clean Water Act and weakening toxic emissions standards for oil refineries, among other things.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Laura Paskus |
11-20-2008 |
Environment
Scientists Warn that Climate Change is Already Hitting New Mexiconew
Few people on the planet are unaware of climate change -- reducing one's carbon footprint has practically become a fashion statement. But behind the headlines and slogans, scientists are tracking the impacts global warming is already having -- and projecting what is yet to come.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Laura Paskus |
08-28-2008 |
Environment
Is FedEx Kinko's Trashing its Recyclables?new
The company recycles 700 tons of paper per year and recently was ranked eighth on the Environmental Protection Agency's quarterly list of Green Power Partners. But when it comes to Santa Fe Kinko's stores, one former employee says the company's recycling claims are nothing more than a whitewash.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Mark Sanders |
05-15-2008 |
Environment
New Mexico's Green Teamnew
Ten enviros making a difference on Earth Day -- and all year round.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Laura Paskus |
04-17-2008 |
Environment
Global Warming Remained a Hot Story in 2007new
The bad news: Global warming. The good news: Alternative energy sources like wind and solar power are becoming more of a reality.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Laura Paskus |
12-20-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Nuke to the Futurenew
The portable nuclear reactor takes on the energy crisis.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Dave Maass |
11-26-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
New Mexico's Hot Air?new
Gov. Bill Richardson says New Mexico is the "clean energy state" -- maybe someday.
Santa Fe Reporter |
David Alire Garcia |
06-28-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
New Mexico's Water Future Is Here ...new
And there's not a drop to spare.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Laura Paskus |
04-05-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
