NEWS - Events
The New Mexico Environmental Law Center holds and sponsors events throughout the year.
Mother Earth Father Sky 2011 Lecture Series
The Environment and the West
Presented by Southwest Seminars
To honor the work of The New Mexico Environmental Law Center
Beginning October 10th at 6 pm at the
Hotel Santa Fe.
$12 per lecture or $110 for the series of 11 lectures
For more information call 505-989-9022.
Oct. 10 Wayne Ranney
In the Footsteps of Martha Summerhayes, a Southwestern Pioneer Woman or How I Touched a Real Piece of SW History While Sailing Around an Iceberg in Greenland
Oct. 17 Dr. Ken Carpenter
The Mouth That Roared: What T. Rex & Other NM Dinosaur Specimens Tell Us
Oct. 24 Dr. Scott L. Collins
Potential Impacts of Climate Change in New Mexico Plant Communities & Ecosystems
Oct. 31 Dr. David Townsend
Albert Bacon Fall: Big Navy, Big Oil and the Teapot Dome Scandal
Nov. 7 Dr. Richard I. Ford
Pre-Hispanic Farming in the Northern Rio Grande
Nov. 14 Jack Loeffler
Defending Homeland: Decades on the Front Lines of Environmentalism in New Mexico
Nov. 21 Dr. Kirt Kempter
The Ice Age in New Mexico: Past, Present, and Future
Nov. 28 Dr. Bryan Brown
Birds and Habitats of the Grand Canyon and Four Corners Region
Dec. 5 Dr. Todd Surovell
The Pleistocene Extinction of Megafauna
Dec. 12 Stephen R. Fox
John Muir and the Religion of Nature
Dec. 19 Dr. Ian Miller
Snowmastadon Found in Aspen, Colorado
The Arctic is Melting and the Desert is Burning: Impacts Globally and Locally
Please join His Excellency Wegger Chr. Strommen
Ambassador of Norway to the United States
for a Luncheon Discussion
February 9, 2011
Noon – 2:00 p.m
Santa Fe Convention Center
201 West Marcy Street
The Earth is undergoing unprecedented and rapid ecological change brought on by a powerful regional warming trend associated with global climate change. These experts will explain events in the Arctic region, how they foretell potentially catastrophic changes in the Earth’s climate systems, and what these changes may mean for the environment and economy of the Southwest region.
Introductory Remarks: Mayor David Coss
Featuring:
Ambassador Strommen, Norway – a fossil fuel economy targeting climate neutrality
Dr. Kim Holmen, Research Director, Norwegian Polar Institute - Rapid Arctic climate change and its feedback to global climate
Dr. Gregg Garfin, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona - Impacts of climate change to the Southwestern US
Rafe Pomerance, Founder of the Climate Policy Center and President of Clean Air-Cool Planet
Please RSVP to Lilia Diaz
or 505-989-7262
Sponsored by:
Luncheon Sponsored by:
Santa Fe Convention and Visitors Bureau
Celebrate Earth Day at the Zia Diner and Support the NMELC!
All Day Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Photo courtesy of Zia Diner.
The Zia Diner in Santa Fe will donate 10% of their profits on April 20th to the NMELC!
Every Tuesday in 2010, the Zia Diner will donate 10% of their profits for that day to a different local organization. April 20th is all about us!
Come on down and enjoy breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks or dessert at the Zia Diner all while supporting the critical work of the NMELC.
Tell your friends! Bring your friends!
Zia Diner
326 S Guadalupe St, Santa Fe 87501
505.988.7008
“See ya at the Zia!“
“Zia Gives Back” community program.
Meet the Author of “The Antiquarian” - Benefit Book Signing
Monday, January 25th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
A reading and signing of Matthew Baca’s new novel The Antiquarian from Sunstone Press.
Held at the McCune Charitable Foundation at 345 East Alameda, Santa Fe, NM
Please park on East Alameda
Proceeds from each book sold will benefit the New Mexico Environmental Law Center.
- Hors d’œuvres will be served.
- Read an excerpt
MOTHER EARTH, FATHER SKY Lecture Series
The New Mexico Environmental Law Center and Southwest Seminars Present A Benefit Lecture Series:
Perspectives on the Environment in New Mexico and the American West
Monday evenings at 6 pm at the Hotel Santa Fe.
$10 per lecture or $70 for the series of 9 lectures
photo credit: © jdebordphoto | Dreamstime.com
For more information call 505-989-9022.
10% of proceeds benefit the New Mexico Environmental Law Center
Oct. 21** Dr. Kirt Kempter
**Changed to Wednesday, October 21
Georgia’s Geology: Shaping the Abiquiu Landscape Through Time
Oct. 26 Wayne Ranney
Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau
Nov. 2 Stephen Fox
Aldo Leopold and the Southwest: One Hundred Years Later
Nov. 9 Dr. Molly S. Toll
New Mexican Cuisine: Exploring the Biological & Cultural Roots of a Regional Tradition
Nov. 16 Dr. Ted Goebel
The Paleo-Indian Environment in the Great Basin: Bonneville Estates Rock Shelter, Nevada
Nov. 23 Mike Landis
Salt Cedars, Willow Flycatchers and Strange Bedfellows: Riparian Restoration Below Elephant Bute
Nov. 30 Dr. Paul Minnis
Politial Ecology of Casas Granes, Chihuahua Mexico
Dec. 7 Jeff Boyer
Small Pueblo Social Organization in the Northern Rio Grande
Dec. 14 Connie Eichstaedt
Connie’s Casa: An Owner Built Passive Solar Adobe Home
BONTAJ ROULET benefit concert, starring R&B legends Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal!
Wednesday, September 23rd at 8:00 PM
Join the Law Center and our friends at Sandia Resort in Albuquerque for the BONTAJ ROULET benefit concert, starring Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal!
Proceeds from each ticket will be granted to non-profit organizations like the New Mexico Environmental Law Center.
- Get show and ticket information, including information on special benefit front row/backstage packages.
- Vote for “Environmental Protection” as a beneficiary of the tour’s grants.
Get a sneak peak of their rockin’ show from:
Their Today Show performance
Their performance on the Craig Ferguson show.
The Law Center thanks Ms. Raitt, Mr. Mahal, their bands, and production teams for including us in this event!
The Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE) - a coalition of community groups affected by uranium mining and committed to renewable energy development - announces the Commemoration of the Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill on July 16, 2009 in Church Rock, NM.
- 7-11 am - Prayer Walk on Hwy. 566 in Remembrance of Communities Affected by the July 16, 1979 Tailings Spill
- 11 am - Noon - Commemoration Proclamation and Reaffirmation of the Navajo Nation’s Uranium Mining Ban
- 12:15 - 2:30 pm - Luncheon at Churchrock Chapter
- 5 - 9 pm - Uranium Films and Panel Discussion at Calvin Hall, UNM Gallup Campus
For details on the event please see PDF of Flyer
The Church Rock Spill occurred when an earthen tailings dam failed on the morning of July 16, 1979. The mill’s radioactive fluids spilled into the Puerco River in New Mexico and traveled downstream to Chambers, Ariz. More radiation was released in the spill than in the Three Mile Island accident, and the spill ranks second only to the 1986 Chernobyl reactor meltdown in the amount of radiation released. For more information on this event see Southwest Research and Information Center report.
NM Business Weekly Honors the Law Center in “Best of the Bar” Awards
New Mexico Business Weekly awards the New Mexico Environmental Law Center with the Best of the Bar.
“It is a fact in this state that environmental pollution and contamination have disproportionately impacted communities of color. And people couldn’t participate effectively without lawyers - and if we didn’t work with these communities, they wouldn’t have lawyers.“ Douglas Meiklejohn, Executive Director.
More info on our Awards Page.
ENDANGERED Culture
The Galisteo Basin as seen by 28 Photographers
Photo-Eye Gallery and The Galisteo Basin Photography Project present a benefit exhibition and print sale in support of the preservation of the Galisteo Basin.
The mission of the Project, is to raise public awareness of what may be irretrievably lost if the Galisteo Basin is allowed to become an oil and gas production field.
Opening Friday, January 23rd, 2009 5-7pm.
The exhibition continues through March 7th.
Perspectives on the Environment Lecture Series.
The New Mexico Environmental Law Center and Southwest Seminars Present A Lecture Series:
Perspectives on the Environment in New Mexico and the American West
$10 per lecture or $45 for the series
Monday evenings at 6 pm at the Hotel Santa Fe.
For more information call 505-989-9022. 10% of proceeds benefit the Law Center
Nov. 17 Jason Shapiro
Location, Location, Location: Prehistory in Santa Fe
Nov. 24 Dr. John Fogarty
Outbreak of Democracy: A burgeoning America Climate Movement
Dec. 1 John Vavruska
Visions of Grace and Majesty: Photographing the American West
Dec. 8 Michael Buchheit
Chasm Beyond Compare: A Photographic Journey Through the Grandest of Canyons
Dec. 15 Dr. Ferenc Szasz
Coming to Grips with the Early Atomic Age: Los Alamos During WWII
Join us for our 20th Anniversary Member Event in Las Cruces!
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 5:30 - 7:30pm
Mark your calendars and stay tuned for details!
Carbon Free Nuclear Free Roadmap
Arjun Makhijani gives a public talk at the UNM Law School.
September 18, 2008
6 pm - 8 pm
UNM Law School
Room 2401
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FREE EVENT!
Arjun Makhijani, PhD author of Carbon-Free And Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy will be giving a talk at the UNM Law School on his action plan to free America from its addiction to oil, reduce our carbon emissions, phase out nuclear power and grow an economy that is in harmony with the environment.
Dr. Makhijani, President of Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, holds a Ph.D. in engineering (specialization: nuclear fusion) from the University of California at Berkeley. He has produced many studies and articles over the past twenty years on nuclear fuel cycle related issues, including weapons production, testing, and nuclear waste.