Meetings

Tour of the Cejita Blanca Badlands

Penistaja Badlands 1

Saturday, September 11
Easy/Moderate tour of Cejita Blanca Badlands near Cuba.

Explore a "new" badlands replete with colorful rock formations, amusing hoodoos, gigantic iron concretions eroding from the soil, and an impressive grove of large grandfather junipers. All off trail, some steep areas. See why we think that this area should be protected. Several high-clearance vehicles needed; driving via Bernalillo. Call Norma McCallan 471-0005 or Tom Petencin 505-271-9928 (ABQ) or tompeten@msn.com).


6th Annual Gila River Festival

Gila River Festival

September 16-19

6th Annual Gila River Festival to Celebrate the Gila’s Web of Life Southwest’s Premier Nature Festival Scheduled for September 16 – 19, 2010

The sixth annual Gila River Festival – planned in and around Silver City, September 16-19, 2010 – will celebrate the role of the Gila River in supporting southwest New Mexico’s rich biological diversity. One of the Southwest’s premier nature festivals, the Gila River Festival attracts an audience of nature lovers and outdoor enthusiasts eager to learn about and experience the Gila’s natural wonders. Festival attendees will enjoy a variety of expert-guided field trips in the Gila National Forest and along the Gila River, lectures with leading scientists on the Gila’s biodiversity, films, family activities, workshops and downtown art walk.


The New Mexico Gulf Oil Crisis Benefit - Ocean Futures Society (OFS) of JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU

The Historic El Rey Theater will be hosting a benefit to raise funds for two key organizations involved in helping with the Gulf Oil Crisis. We invite you to please join us in support of the efforts of those who are working underwater and above in the Gulf of Mexico.
Where: Albuquerque:
The Historic El Rey Theater
622 Central Ave., S. W.
(Downtown 7th and Central)

When: Saturday September 25, 2010

Time: Doors: 7:00pm
Show: 8:00pm

Price: $30 Advance
$35 At the Door

Age Restriction: All Ages

This evening’s benefit will include:


Northern New Mexico - Holiday Party

5:30 - 8:30 pm Sunday December 5
Santa Fe Woman's Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe

Join us for our annual holiday member party. Visit with your friends and meet new ones. Come help celebrate our successes for the year. We have a limit of 75 people for this event – and so reservations are required. The entertainment for the evening will be a slide show of various Sierra Club outings.


Speak Out - Santa Fe National Forest's Travel Management Plan

Borrego - Bear Wallow

Santa Fe National Forest's Travel Management Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)

What you can do to help:

  • Send comments on this draft EIS by Sept. 30
  • Write letters to the editor
  • Join the Sierra Club Forest Action Team

The Santa Fe National Forest has released its DEIS: http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/sfe/travelmgt/index.html. Long but relatively easy to read


Help Cap Carbon Emissions in New Mexico

WindView

7-8 pm, August 16-20
33 Plaza La Prensa, Santa Fe

It is time to establish carbon emission caps for New Mexico. It would appear that the U.S. Senate is not going to act anytime soon, so establishing more local caps on carbon emissions are needed now. The New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) will hold hearings during the week of August 16 in consideration of establishing carbon caps. Please get involved and attend one of these meetings. Speak out and provide moral support for the clean energy side.


"The Job's Not Done" Blue Green Alliance Bus Tour Stop and Rally in ABQ

BGA Job's Not Done

12:30-1:30pm, Tuesday August 17
Civic Plaza, Albuquerque

The Blue Green Alliance is staging a nationwide bus tour that will be in Albuquerque to call for comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation in the fall. The event will feature union members who work in clean energy sectors and advocate for clean energy policies.


Public Listening Session on the President's America's Great Outdoors Initiative

Santa Fe Baldy

1:30- 4:00 pm, Saturday, July 17,
Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North
5151 San Francisco Road, NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109

Please join senior representatives from the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a public listening session and discussions in New Mexico on conservation, recreation, and reconnecting people to the outdoors.


A Forum on Urban Transformation

Our Future

4-6 pm, Friday, July 16 and 10am-noon, Saturday, July 17
Tipton Hall, College of Santa Fe, 1600 Saint Michael's Drive, Santa Fe

The City of Santa Fe Presents: A Forum on Urban Transformation

  • Kurt Culbertson, Design Workshop, Denver
  • Tim Page, CH2MHILL, St. Louis
  • Patricia Johanson, Artist, New York
  • Carlos Hernandez, Fehr and Peers, Denver
  • Michael Halsey, Business Futures, Santa Fe

Las Vegas People's Faire - Sustainable Las Vegas

Solar Thermal Panels by DVW

10am-5pm August 14

Sustainable Las Vegas, the local chapter of the New Mexico Solar Energy Association will be participating in the Las Vegas People's Faire on August 14th from 10:00 to 5:00 in Carnegie Park.


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