The committee will cover updates to state and federal work, especially the latest news from the NM legislature. Please contact committee chair Ruth Striegel,  ruth.striegel@gmail.com, to receive Zoom neeting link

Interfaith Power & Light- New Mexico and El Paso, 350 New Mexico, Sierra Club -Rio Grande Chapter, Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment, Audubon Southwest, Public Power New Mexico and several other organizations are hosting Climate Justice Day at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe on Thursday, February 23, Join your fellow climate advocates to learn […]

This Lent, join the Spirit in the Desert Retreat Center in Arizona in taking decisive action! Featuring the Christian practices of fasting, almsgiving, and prayer, we will renew and improve our care of creation. Here’s a hard truth: One person’s dietary and lifestyle changes won’t reverse a drought or stop the glaciers from melting or […]

Climate financial policy analyst Jordan Haedtler  will speak about state-level green financing opportunities through the Inflation Reduction Act such as the Green Bank (SB169) and other bills up this session. Jordan, who recently relocated to New Mexico, works for the Sunrise Project on proposals to mitigate the exposure that state budgets, pension funds, displaced fossil fuel workers, […]

This Lent, join the Spirit in the Desert Retreat Center in Arizona in taking decisive action! Featuring the Christian practices of fasting, almsgiving, and prayer, we will renew and improve our care of creation. Here’s a hard truth: One person’s dietary and lifestyle changes won’t reverse a drought or stop the glaciers from melting or […]

Rep. Andrea Romero,  a state representative from northern New Mexico (District 46) will host an update on the Aamodt Settlement & Construction, Pojoaque Valley High School Auditorium, 1574 State Road 502, West, Santa Fe, NM 87506 Background: Santa Fe County, the Pueblos of Nambe, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso and Tesuque, the State of New Mexico, the […]

Sister Joan Brown, executive director of Interfaith Power & Light, New Mexico & El Paso, will offer a presentation on Permian Basin Immersion Retreat Experience at First Unitarian Church, 3701 Carlisle Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87110.  More details TBA

New Mexico Peace Choir presents Meet Me In This Patch of Light Let's build a new world without hate, without fear. In-person and YouTube livestream concert Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 3:00pm Central United Methodist Church 201 University Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106 Tickets on sale at nmpeacechoir.org (Livestream link will be emailed after ticket […]

The jolly Jewish holiday of Purim is celebrated every year on the 14th of the Hebrew month of Adar (late winter/early spring). Purim 2023 begins on Monday night, March 6 and continues through Tuesday, March 7.

Water balloons, pichkaris of colors, and gulal are how people celebrate Holi, the vibrant festival of colors. Revelers immerse themselves in mazza and masti (fun). Some food for thought: If a person uses one bucket of water (minimum), that is 15 liters of water. If five lakh people play Holi in one city, there is […]

On Wednesday, March 8th, Sunrise El Paso will be co-hosting a Virtual House Party and Launch from 5:00PM-6:30PM MST for the El Paso Climate Charter campaign to get out the vote! Over the last year, Sunrise El Paso drafted a Climate Charter amendment for the city charter in El Paso, collected close to 40,000 signatures, […]

Sister Joan Brown, osf, executive director of Interfaith Power & Light, New Mexico and El Paso, will take part in a presentation for a US Department of Interior Panel on People, Public Lands and Climate for people of faith experience of public lands. Details TBA