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New Mexico is in a battle to escape the powerful grip of the oil and gas industry. For nearly a century, the oil and gas industry’s influence on New Mexico has ranged from the education system to elected officials to issues of water and air quality. New Mexico has long... Read More

By Jan Martenson, President of Taos Chapter/NPSNM For years the Taos chapter of NPSNM has propagated native plants from seed to sell-to-the-public in order to promote using natives in home gardening and local landscaping. In the fall of 2019, we stepped up our efforts by entering into an exciting partnership... Read More

by Gwendolyn Pieper Conventional agriculture has taught us that mechanical tillage is our friend. It tells us that we must have bare fields, monocrops, and chemical inputs. But it turns out that these practices are destroying the health of our communities, our soil, and our planet. It is time to... Read More

Dr. Amy Brady is the Executive Director of Orion magazine and the author of Ice: An American Obsession, a cultural history of ice forthcoming from Putnam in 2023. Her writing about culture, environmentalism and climate change has appeared in O, the Oprah magazine, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, The New... Read More

Traditionally, the conservation movement has fought to protect land, air and water, but it has not served all communities equally. Leah Thomas describes intersectional environmentalism as an inclusive perspective that protects both people and the planet, recognizing the interconnections between injustice to the most vulnerable communities and harm to the... Read More

Taos Land Trust · New Mexico’s Changing Climate – A Conversation with Laura Paskus In season three of the Taos Land Trust podcast, we will explore climate change in New Mexico. What can we expect? What impacts do we see right now? Most importantly, how can we adapt to the... Read More