Resilient New Mexico Podcast
Resilient New Mexico is dedicated to sharing our climate-related stories, highlighting our commonalities, and exploring our capabilities for building a sustainable and socially just future.
- Update frequency
- every 68 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 22
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
Habitat Restoration With AT Cole
AT Cole joins us to share his efforts working with his wife to restore their ranch in souther New Mexico after it had suffered from decades of over grazing and poor land management practices. We disc…
Rethinking what Sustainability Looks Like with Andreas Hernandez
One of our best interviews for it's thought provoking ideas! Dr. Andreas Hernandez teaches in the Sustainability Studies Program at UNM. With a broad background and breadth of experiences, Andreas ch…
Neal Denton and Sustainability in Santa Fe
Neal Denton, who was the Sustainability Officer for the city of Santa Fe, gives us a peek behind the curtain in to what Santa Fe is doing to promote sustainability. We get in to details of what susta…
Community Solar Update with Christian Casillas
Christian Casillas from the Coalition of Sustainable Communities walks us through the current status of community solar in New Mexico, describes the progress that has been made, and the amazing poten…
Composting to Engage Youth, Improve Soil Health and Sequester Carbon with Carol Ann and Mike Fugagli
Carol Ann and Mike Fugagli join us to discuss their impressive project of using Johnson-Su composting method to Engage Youth, Improve Soil Health and Sequester Carbon. They share about the educationa…
Ableism, Disability and Climate with Naomi Ortiz
The wonderful and thought provoking Naomi Ortiz joins us to educate Sandra and myself about a very important topic that isn't discussed very much, specifically the intersection of disability justice …
Dr.Stan Atcitty talks with about energy and energy sovereignty among indigenous communities in the US.
Dr.Atcitty is a senior scientist at Sandia National Labs where he works on renewable energy systems. He is also a member of the Navajo Nation, and is deeply engaged with bringing renewable energy and…
2023 Legislative Roundup with Tom Solomon
Tom Solomon from 350newmexico.org joins us to discuss the climate related bills that did, or didn't make it during the 2023 legislative session. We also discuss how NM compares to other states, some …
Environmental Journalism with Judith Polich
Judith Polich writes a climate change column for the Albuquerque Journal, and covers a wide variety of climate related topics. We talk to her about how to engage people in climate action, how readers…
Childhood development with Dr.Genesis Arizmendi
Sustainability and Post-Sustainability with Melinda Morgan
We talk with Melinda Morgan who has a long resume, including the current Director of the Sustainability Studies Program as well as the author of The End of Sustainability. We have a lot of fun and le…
Gabe Pacyniak explores GHG emissions and NM
We speak with Gabe Pacyniak about NM and greenhouse gas emissions, and how best NM can move towards a low emissions future. Gabe teaches climate change law and policy seminar at the UNM School of Law…
Environmental Justice with Cliff Villa
Cliff Villa, a Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law, shares wisdom gathered from his extensive experience, including 22 years as an attorney for the U.S. Environmental Prote…
Climate Change and Health with Heidi Honegger Rogers
Heidi Honegger Rogers from the UNM Health Sciences Center is here to talk with us about health and how it is impacted by climate change, both in NM and nationally. She also has lots of great tips for…
Community Solar Bill Passage Review
The Community Solar bill was passed in to law, but is this a good thing? Sandra and Peter discuss the amendments that happened to the bill prior to being passed, how those amendments impacted the bil…
Interview with Arté Romero y Carver
Arté is one of the co-founders New Mexico based Youth United for Climate Crisis Action (YUCCA), and speaks with about why climate justice is a racial and human rights issue, and how ending environmen…
Food Waste with Dr.Sue Barns
Sue Barns joins us to discuss food waste, what it is, where it happens, and how to avoid it! We also have a good round of lightning questions, and find out the best way to store food long term.
Discuss 2021 Legislative Session with Mona Blaber
We spoke to Mona Blaber, who is the Communication Director for the Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club. New Mexico is in the middle of its annual legislative session, and we discussed specific bill…
HB106: Community Solar for NM
In this episode we discuss HB106, which would allow small groups or organizations to attach small scale solar instalations to the grid. This bill came up last year, but did not pass. We discuss why t…