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March is Women’s History Month, a time when we celebrate the achievements and contributions of women to our history, culture and society. Listen below to this weeks episode as Earth Matters host Allyson Siwik is joined by guest Sally Smith, an environmental activist who has made significant contributions to the environment and community health of Grant County. As the co-founder and board president of Gila Resources Information Project, Sally has […]
Join Donna Stevens of the Upper Gila Watershed Alliance and her guests Gabe Vasquez and Angel Peña of Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project. Gabe Vasquez is the founder of Nuestra Tierra and a Las Cruces city councilor, and Angel Peña serves as Nuestra Tierra's Executive Director. This wide-ranging conversation discusses Nuestra Tierra’s outreach work, the US/Mexico border, outdoor equity, Wild and Scenic designation for the Gila River, the January 6 insurrection at the […]
This week on the Earth Matters Radio Hour, host Kevin Bixby and guests discuss the surprise wolf hunt held in Wisconsin last week that resulted in more than 200 wolves being killed in just three days with guns, traps, snowmobiles and dogs. University of Wisconsin professor Adrian Treves, and Melissa Smith, executive director of Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf and Wildlife share their insights on how this massacre happened and […]
This week on Earth Matters Gila Resources Information Project executive director Allyson Siwik talks with independent reporter and radio producer Laura Paskus about toxic and persistent chemicals called PFAS -- per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – that have contaminated water supplies around the country, including here in New Mexico. The discussion covers contaminated groundwater at military sites in the state, as well as the recent study by the US Geological Survey […]
Can Capitalism Survive Climate Change/ Can Life Survive Capitalism? Capitalism, as the governing economic, political and ideological system of our time, structures how we consume resources, how we share or take scarce resources, what we think of as fair and even how we imagine what a meaningful life looks like. In the face of impending climate crisis, the dominant question of our time is: can this economic system curtail climate […]
Please join us for this week’s Earth Matters program, when Donna Stevens of the Upper Gila Watershed Alliance talks with Dr. Martha Desmond of NMSU’s Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Ecology Department and Jonathan Hayes, the Executive Director of Audubon Southwest, (New Mexico and Arizona). The discussion ranges from New Mexico's tragic bird die-off in fall 2020 to the status of our state's birds in general. Why did so many birds die during […]
Join us this week on Earth Matters as host Kevin Bixby discusses wildlife, clean energy and other environmental bills introduced in the NM Legislature with Brittany Fallon (NM Wild), Jessica Johnson (Animal Protection of NM) and Luis Guerrero (Sierra Club). Right click and select "Save Link As" to download
On today's show, Earth Matters co-producer and Gila Resources Information Project executive director Allyson Siwik gives us a preview of environmental bills under consideration in the 2021 legislative session with Camilla Feibelman, Executive Director of the Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club and Charlie de Saillan, staff attorney with the NM Environmental Law Center. Because of COVID and the need to prevent the spread of the disease, this year's […]
This week, co-host Donna Stevens is joined by NM Wildlife Federation Executive Director Jesse Deubel and Southern NM Outreach Coordinator Ray Trejo. They'll be speaking on issues of importance to sportspeople and conservationists. Right click and select "Save Link As" to download
