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Largest Solar Array by an Electric Cooperative to be Installed in New Mexico
Image via: PowerTech - solar farm in Bavaria Colfax County to be exact, and the array will include over 500,000 photovoltaic panels when it is finally operational and produce 30MW of solar...
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New Google Earth Layer Shows What US Lands Should Be Off-Limits to Renewable...
As Senator Feinstein's recent talk about making 500,000 acres of the Mojave desert off-limits to renewable energy development, on the conservation grounds, goes to show, conflicts over siting large...
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Desert Rock New Mexico, Coal-Fired Power Plant Permit Withdrawn By USEPA
Another pro-coal Bush environmental decision was reversed this week. Reuters reports that the Environmental Protection Agency withdrew the air permit,
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US Government Awards Millions To Create "Forest Thinning" Jobs
U.S. Department of the Interior will grant $15 million to 55 projects to "thin overgrown forests" [logging] and remove potential fuels for wildfires on public lands" [so the wood can
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Bureau of Land Management to Designate Solar Power Fast Track Areas in Six...
Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar has just announced that the Bureau of Land Management will designate some 24 sites in six western states as Solar Energy Study Areas; and will establish new solar...
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University NM - Taos Celebrates Energy Independence Day
July 1, 2009 will forever be known as Energy Independence Day as the University of New Mexico - Taos is now officially 100% powered by the sun - the first community college in the United States to...
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First Utility-Scale, Zero Emissions, Hydrogen Power Plant Begins Construction...
New Mexico-based company Jetstream Wind has announced that it has begun construction in the town of Truth or Consequences on what it is calling the world's first utility-scale, zero-emissions hydrogen...
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Mercury Rising: Temperature Will Soar in Some U.S. States Within the Century
The heat is on. We all know climate change is a very real and very dangerous fact of life, and many
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Earthship Makes Landfall in Nicaragua, Builds Home Out of Tires
In the San Juan Del Sur region of Nicaragua, the famed Earthship crew, along with 13 Nicaraguans from the local community, created the start of what will be entirely off-grid, sustainable community,...
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Who Says Solar is Hurting? SCHOTT Solar Now Hiring
When SCHOTT Solar opened their manufacturing facility just nine months ago, and during these tough times, who knew they would be doubling the number
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EcoNewMexico Hosts Carnival of the Green
Today marks Carnival of the Green #210, and it's being hosted by EcoNewMexico. Did you know that living in New Mexico and the American Southwest has special ecological considerations? We sure didn't....
View ArticleCould Rush Limbaugh Deter Pine Bark Beetles? (Video)
Jeff has already explored a whole variety of diseased and pest ridden trees this week, but the pine bark beetle's march has to be one of the biggest threats to forests in North America....
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Santa Fe Enchanted With Eco-friendly Art
A year-long show focusing on the four elements is bringing well-known environmental
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New Mexico Farmer's Market Goes Entirely Solar
Farmer's market, meet solar power. Solar power, meet farmer's market.
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Permit for Coal Mine Expansion Revoked on Navajo Land
Two environmental groups have at least a temporary victory to celebrate after a federal judge voided a permit, granted in 2005, for the expansion of a coal mine on Navajo land in New Mexico.
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10-Year-Old Girl Fights to Save a Mountain
Faith, they say, can move mountains, but sometimes it takes hard work and dedication to help ensure that they don't go anywhere. In 1915, the town of Orogrande, New Mexico, was once a thriving gold...
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20 Square Mile Fake City To Be Built As Technology Test Bed
Remember that scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, where Indie is stuck in a completely fake town with no people, and that was the basis of the phrase, "to nuke the fridge",...
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Scientists Find Rarest US Bumblebee Again After 55 years.
This bumblebee was last spotted in 1956. Now scientists have found three of the furry little creatures on a patch of weeds by the highway.
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Whimsical Furniture Made From Recycled Cardboard
Inspired by both the beauty of the American West and the wares on sale in a tiny Parisian shop, Clôdie Francois turns discarded cardboard into colorful, playful pieces that look straight out of 'Alice...
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Seed Broadcast Station is Traveling the Country Recording Seed Saver Stories
This mobile radio station -- formally a bread truck -- is traveling the country sharing stories of seed savers.
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Thermal Mass, Careful Siting and Shading And Natural Ventilation Keep This...
" I’m more interested in what architecture does than just what it is."
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Exploring, Enjoying, and Protecting New Mexico's Organ Mountains
Why this beautiful, rugged landscape deserves a national monument designation.
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Celebrating Five New National Monuments
Millions of Americans are applauding President Obama for naming five new National Monuments.
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Eco-minded 204 sq. ft. tiny home packs in tons of thoughtful details (Video)
This wife-and-husband, designer-and-builder team created their own modern tiny home to realize the dream of simplifying their lives, while saving money.
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Yes, wildfires are connected to climate change. Here's how.
The American West is currently suffering from record-setting heat wave and deadly wildfires. Is it connected to global warming? Of course, but it's important to understand how.
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New Mexico's record drought forcing farmers to extremes
With 90 percent of New Mexico currently in extreme or exceptional drought, the harshest categories in the U.S. Drought Monitor, farmers are forced to go to extremes for water, including paying up to...
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New Mexico reservoir has just 3 percent of water it held in 1980s and 90s
Katie Valentine at Think Progress looks at the growing water crisis in the US Southwest, where New Mexico's Elephant Butte reservoir "currently holds just 3 percent of the water it held in the 1980s...
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Protecting pristine lands for future generations
Interior Secretary Jewell's visits to Southern New Mexico and California are positive signs that the President is listening to the American public, hearing demands that they want their special places...
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El Niño could bring rain to the Western States - and disease
The possibility that El Niño will develop over the summer months could bring good news for those suffering from drought in the Southwest, but it may also increase the incidence of rodent- and...
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New Mexico utility endangering public health with coal mine deal
"Why on earth would they buy a coal mine that would lock its ratepayers and the surrounding community into decades of coal pollution?"
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