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Earth Matters co-host Nathan Newcomer – Silver City Grassroots Organizer for NM Wilderness Alliance – interviews Grant County resident and activist, Nick Sussillo - Lead Organizer for the Youth & Climate Justice event on October 14th in Silver City.  The event is sponsored by the Silver City Chapter of the People’s Climate Movement. The PCM / Peoples’ Climate Movement formed out of the September 2014 Peoples’ Climate March of 400,000 participants, organized by Bill […]

2015 marks the the occasion of the 11th Annual Gila River Festival with it's theme of Finding Balance in a Changing World. Earth Matters, co-host Nathan Newcomer - Silver City Grassroots Organizer for NM Wilderness Alliance - interviews Earth Matters co-host Donna Stevens (!) - Executive Director of UGWA / Upper Gila Watershed Alliance - on the remarkable range of offerings and attractions of this year's event. The festival takes […]

Donna Stevens - Executive Director of the Upper Gila Watershed Alliance - interviews Peter Bill - new media professor at WNMU / Western New Mexico University. This edition of Earth Matters is a bit of a departure from the usual format.  Peter Bill is a filmmaker and the mastermind and organizer of the first Gila Time-Lapse Film Festival - part of the 11th Annual Gila River Festival, occurring September 24th […]

Donna Stevens, Executive Director of the Upper Gila Watershed Alliance, hosts this week’s Earth Matters program. Her guests are fish biologists Jim Brooks and David Propst. These eminently qualified biologists have been highly critical of the NM Interstate Stream Commission’s plan to divert the Gila River, citing the ISC’s failure to use the best available science or to adhere to the standard of peer reviewed research.  Brooks and Propst talk […]

In this weeks installment of Earth Matters, Allyson Siwik interviews Norm Gaume - former Executive Director of the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission. The New Mexico legislature’s IWNRC / Interim Water and Natural Resources Committee convened in Silver City on Monday 31 August 2015 at WNMU Miller Library with an agenda heavily weighted with water issues including the highly controversial AWSA / Arizona Water Settlement Act, the Mega Expensive New […]

Nuclear New Mexico - Past & Future is in production.  Additional info will be posted upon completion. In observance of the 70th Anniversaries of the 1st detonation of a nuclear weapon at the Trinity Site in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico and the US nuclear attacks upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, GMCR & KURU are presenting several programs related to these events that have changed the world and threaten its […]