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Earth Day 2016 Join Earth Matters co-producer Allyson Siwik and Executive Director of Gila Resources Information Project (GRIP) and her guests Terry Timme of the Silver City Office of Sustainability, Jalissa Frederick of GRIP and the Silver City Watershed Keepers, and Kendra Milligan of the Southwest Center for Health Innovation for a discussion of this year's Earth Day festivities taking place on April 22nd and 23rd in Silver City. This […]
Women as Healers March 8th was International Women’s Day. Any occasion that honors half of humanity is certainly much broader than we could hope to address in a single hour but we hope you will enjoy our discussion of Women as Healers. Women's identities have always included this vital role and responsibility. Communities throughout the world have honored women for the skills and talents in this regard. These Healers acquired […]
On this week's Earth Matters, co-producer and Gila Resources Information Project Executive Director Allyson Siwik engages Lynda Aiman-Smith and Gordon West of the SW New Mexico Green Chamber of Commerce on local investing. The 2008 economic crash, Occupy Wall Street, and the expanding income gap between rich and poor have compelled a lot of thinking and experimentation about how to create real prosperity for more people in America. How can […]
On this week's edition of Earth Matters, Nathan Newcomer, Gila Grassroots Organizer with the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance talks with Jason Amaro, the New Mexico Sportsmen Conservation Coordinator with Trout Unlimited; Gerry Engle, with the Gila Chapter of the Backcountry Horsemen, and Chris Schlabach, co-owner of Gila Hike & Bike, a local outdoor business located in downtown Silver City. They discuss the importance of public lands, like our Gila National Forest and its […]
This week on Earth Matters, Upper Gila Watershed Alliance Director Donna Stevens interviews Alison Flint, Planning Specialist with the Wilderness Society, and Michael Casaus, New Mexico State Director of the Wilderness Society. Their topic is Forest Plan revisions for the Gila National Forest. The Gila’s current management plan is from 1986 and is badly out of date. Forest plans provide guidance for all proposed projects and management decisions in the […]
On this week’s edition of Earth Matters, Donna Stevens, Executive Director of the Upper Gila Watershed Alliance, interviews Dr Kathy Whiteman. They discuss the sixth Natural History of the Gila Symposium, which takes place February 25 & 26 at Western New Mexico University. The Gila bioregion is high in biological diversity, and much research has taken place in various ecosystems. The symposium brings together scientists and researchers, conservationists and agency […]
On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at WNMU / Global Resource Center, Gila Resources Information Project and Gila / Mimbres Community Radio / KURU 89.1 FM presented a Community Conversation... Opposing Violent Means to Political Ends: Will Silver City be the Next Burns, Oregon? During the recent armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, supporters carrying firearms roamed the streets of nearby Burns, Oregon. Fearing violence, Burns residents closed schools […]
February is Black History Month and WNMU's Center For Gender Equity is presenting a number of events in recognition. Nelson Williams and Marilynn Grijalva are students at WNMU involved with The Center for Gender Equity and are organizers and participants in honor of Black Lives Matter Western New Mexico University Tuesday / 23 February 2016 Info tables from 9 am at PE Complex and Martinez Hall Evening event / Light […]
Earth Matters co-producer and GRIP executive director Allyson Siwik interviews Center for Biological Diversity co-founder and Executive Director Kieran Suckling and NM Wildlife Federation Executive Director Garrett VeneKlasen about January's armed standoff at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Oregon. The takeover has raised the profile of right-wing, anti-government fringe groups and their increasingly violent actions related to public lands management issues. On January 23 at a protest at the […]
