Earth Matters

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 […]

New Mexico’s central role in the history, current situation, and future of America’s nuclear weapons development and production gives the people of New Mexico special responsibilities and opportunities in the quest for peace and justice.  New Mexicans also bear exceptional burdens of environmental and health impacts from radiation exposure. On August 20, 2015, Jamie Newton and Allyson Siwik co-hosted a Civil Discourse program on the quest for peace – preventing […]

Donna Stevens - Executive Director of UGWA / Upper Gila Watershed Alliance - hosts this week's installment of Earth Matters.  Her guest is Mary Katherine Ray - Wildlife Chair of the Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club - and their subject is New Mexico Department of Game and Fish and a pending decision on a misguided proposal to increase the number, location and means for the hunting and trapping […]

Earth Matters co-producer and Gila Resources Information Project director Allyson Siwik talks to Sandy Jones, District 5 commissioner with the Public Regulation Commission (PRC). The PRC regulates the utilities, telecommunications, and motor carrier industries in the state to ensure fair and reasonable rates, and to assure reasonable and adequate services to the public.  Sandy talks about the PRC's role in renewable energy development in the state and the recent agreement […]

The Legacy of the US Nuclear Weapons Program in New Mexico with Jay Coghlan / Nuclear Watch New Mexico and Tina Cordova / Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first atom bomb at the Trinity Site within the Tularosa Basin in the southern New Mexico desert northeast of Truth or Consequences.  Weeks later our country dropped nuclear bombs on Japan, killing hundreds of […]

Sister Joan Brown on Pope Francis' Encyclical - On Care for our Common Home Earth Matters co-producer and Gila Resources Information Project Executive Director Allyson Siwik talks to Sister Joan Brown Executive Director of New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light about Pope Francis' Encyclical - On Care for our Common Home - an appeal for global unity to confront environmental degradation and climate change.  Advocates are hopeful that the Pope’s […]

In this week’s edition of Earth Matters, co-producer Nathan Newcomer interviews Michael Robinson, Conservation Advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. They discuss the Mexican gray wolf recovery program, including recent changes by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to expand the recovery area, and the many struggles and challenges that are still plaguing the recovery effort. Michael has been associated with the Center for Biological Diversity since the organizations […]

In this week’s edition of Earth Matters, co-producer Nathan Newcomer interviews local community members involved with the Butterfly Way Project, a habitat restoration in the Gila River Valley dedicated to the memory of Michael Sebastian Mahl, Ella Jaz Kirk, and Ella Sala Myers. Butterfly Way is located on The Nature Conservancy property along the riverine corridor of the Gila River, in Southwestern New Mexico, promoting an increase in the diversity of native plant hosts for […]