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"New" Nuclear Reactors, Same Old Story Rocky Mountain Institute
A good article discussing latest nuclear small-reactor innovations as "not just decades too late, but fundamentally a fantasy."
Renewable Energy for America Natural Resource Defense Council
This interactive map was designed to show the enormous potential for new energy systems in the US.
The Story of Stuff
A great video illustrating how all the stuff in our lives, from its extraction through sale, use and disposal, affects communities at home and abroad.
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) A national network of organizations working to address issues of nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup.
Amigos Bravos “Friends of the Wild Rivers” is a non-profit river advocacy group with offices in Taos and Albuquerque. The organization is dedicated to preserving both the ecological and cultural richness of the Rio Grande watershed.
Center for Biological Diversity works through science, law, and creative media to secure a future for all species, great or small, hovering on the brink of extinction.
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS) Their mission: Protecting all living beings and the environment from the effects of radioactive and other hazardous materials now and in the future.
Conservation Voters of New Mexico Our mission is to make sensible conservation policies a top priority for elected officials, political candidates, and voters across the state.
Diné CARE Diné CARE, Citizens Against Ruining our Environment, is an all-Navajo environmental organization, based within the Navajo homeland. We strive to educate and advocate for our traditional teachings as we protect and provide a voice for all life in the Four Sacred Mountains.
Drilling Santa Fe The mission of Drilling Santa Fe is to protect the cultural, environmental, and economic resources of Santa Fe County from the adverse impacts of oil and gas exploration and production within the County.
Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth, and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment.
Earthworks is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the destructive impacts of mineral development, in the U.S. and worldwide.
Environment New Mexico We focus exclusively on protecting New Mexico's air, water and open spaces. We speak out and take action at the local, state and national levels to improve the quality of our environment and our lives.
Friends of the Earth It is the mission of Friends of the Earth to fight to protect the rights of all people to live in a safe and healthy environment, both at home or in countries around the world.
Gila Resources Information Project (GRIP) is a nonprofit environmental advocacy group that draws on local support and private foundations to promote community health and protect our quality of life. We promote planning, groundwater protection, and free-running rivers in the face of unsustainable development practices.
Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a 30-year-old nonprofit public interest group that promotes government and corporate accountability by advancing occupational free speech, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists.
Indigenous Environmental Network From 1995 to present, IEN's staff, its governing body and community-based advisors devoted an incredible amount of effort to develop the capacity of IEN to meet its growing responsibility to serve both tribal grassroots communities and tribal governmental environmental staff on environmental justice issues.
Institute for Energy and Environmental Resources (IEER) IEER's aim is to provide people with literature which has a quality equal to that in scientific journals, but which doesn't require you to go back to college to get a degree in science to understand it.
Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE) is rooted in the experiences of uranium-impacted communities of the southwestern U.S. We are communities working to restore and protect the natural and cultural environment through respectfully promoting intercultural engagement among communities and institutions for the benefit of all life and future generations.
Natural Resources Defense Council The Natural Resources Defense Council works to protect wildlife and wild places and to ensure a healthy environment for all life on earth.
New Energy Economy is dedicated to creating opportunities for New Mexico by developing solutions to global warming.
New Mexico Acequia Association Our mission is to sustain our way of life by protecting water as a community resource and strengthening the farming and ranching traditions of our families and communities.
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance The Coalition for New Mexico Wilderness is a forum for organizations and businesses to join in the effort to protect New Mexico's wild places as Wilderness.
Nuclear Information and Resource Service NIRS/WISE is the information and networking center for people and organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues.
Nuclear Watch of New Mexico Through comprehensive research, public education and effective citizen action, Nuclear Watch New Mexico seeks to promote safety and environmental protection at regional nuclear facilities; mission diversification away from nuclear weapons programs; greater accountability and cleanup in the nation-wide nuclear weapons complex; and consistent U.S. leadership toward a world free of nuclear weapons.
Oil & Gas Accountability Project (OGAP) is the only organization in the United States with the sole mission of working with tribal, urban and rural communities to protect their homes and the environment from the devastating impacts of oil and gas development. OGAP is a resource for citizens and communities that are dealing with oil and gas development.
SAGE Council is an Indigenous and people of color-led organization using community organizing to build power through action, education, leadership development and political participation.
Somos un Pueblo Unido is the only community-based and immigrant-led organization actively committed to preparing immigrant leaders to create institutional change.
Southwest Network for Environmental & Economic Justice (SNEEJ) exists to bring together activists and grassroots organizations from across the Southwest, West, and border states of Mexico. Our purpose is to develop and broaden collective regional strategies and perspectives on environmental degradation and other social, racial, generational, economic, and gender injustices.
SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP) is a statewide multi-racial, multi-issue, community based membership organization. Their mission is "working to empower our communities to realize racial and gender equality and social and economic justice."
Southwest Research and Information Center (SRIC) was founded in 1971 for the purpose of providing information to the public on the effects of energy development and resource exploitation on the people and their cultures, lands, water, and air of New Mexico and the Southwest.
Southwest Seminars a Santa Fe, New Mexico educational non-profit organization that specializes in developing programs in Southwest studies: including history, archaeology, art, literature, natural history, geology, ecology, biology, cultural affairs, and other Southwest studies which are sensitive to the multi-cultural heritage and community traditions of its people, for the benefit of residents, visitors, individuals, and groups.
Taos Land Trust is a nonprofit land conservation organization founded in 1988 to help preserve the natural and cultural landscapes, wildlife habitat and extraordinary natural beauty of the Taos area.
TEWA Women United (TWU) is a collective intertribal women's voice in the Tewa homelands of Northern New Mexico.
Uranium Watch is a non-profit advocacy group with an office in Moab, Utah. We educate and advocate for protection of human health and the environment from uranium mining and milling operations in the west, with a focus on Utah.
Western Resource Advocates is a non-profit environmental law and policy organization whose mission is to protect the West's land, air, and water.
WildEarth Guardians protects and restores wildlife, wild rivers, and wild places in the American West.
Ben Alexander (Economics) Associate Director of Headwaters Economics, an independent, nonprofit research group. Their mission is to improve community development and land management decisions in the West.
Jim Tarr (Air Quality and Pollution) President of Stone Lions Environmental Corporation, an environmental consulting firm specializing in air pollution evaluations related to a variety of industrial facilities. In addition, we research potential health effects that result from community exposure to a wide variety of toxic chemicals.
New Mexico Environment Department oversees state regulation and enforcement of environmental policy in New Mexico.