Organizations and Citizen-Activist Resources
The Fund For Public Interest Research (FFPIR)
The
Fund for Public Interest Research is a national nonprofit organization
working to increase the visibility, membership and political power of
the nation’s leading environmental and progressive groups. The Fund for
Public Interest Research is best known for its canvass programs. Over
the years The Fund has developed the nation's largest and most
effective network for door-to-door and street canvassing—signing up
members in high traffic, public places. The Fund signs up
sustainers—members who commit to automatic monthly contributions from a
checking account or credit card—as well as one-time contributors. The
Fund for Public Interest Research works with Environment New Mexico in
Albuquerque and other cities throughout New Mexico.
The Coalition for Clean, Affordable Energy (CCAE)
The CCAE formed in 1997 to give a greater voice to New Mexicans advocating for renewable energy and energy efficiency. CCAE’s efforts have led to legislation and regulations protecting consumers and establishing a number of requirements crucial for encouraging the large scale development of clean power in New Mexico, including: legislation creating production tax incentives for wind power and biomass energy; a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), requiring utilities to provide a percentage of their power from renewable sources; and Solar Tax Credits which give homeowners and businesses up to 30% off the cost of installing solar energy systems. Environment New Mexico is an active member in CCAE.
New Mexico Physicians for Social Responsibility
Guided by the values and expertise of medicine and public health, New Mexico Physicians for Social Responsibility works to protect human life from the gravest threats to health and survival, including global warming.
New Energy Economy (NE2) is dedicated to creating opportunities for New Mexico by developing solutions to global warming. With abundant renewable energy resources and innovative building technologies, New Mexico has an extraordinary opportunity to benefit by creating a new direction for energy in America. New Mexico also can help our country become energy independent by becoming a leading exporter of clean renewable energy and new energy technologies.
Slowing the growth rate of greenhouse gas emissions and then reversing it over the next ten years will require immediate action and a concerted global effort. As Architecture 2030 has shown, buildings are the major source of demand for energy and materials that produce by-product greenhouse gases. Stabilizing emissions in this sector and then reversing them to acceptable levels is key to keeping global warming to approximately a degree centigrade (°C) above today’s level.
The Sierra Club is a national grassroots environmental organization with an extensive network of affiliates in New Mexico.
New Mexico Wildlife Federation
The New Mexico Wildlife Federation is the state’s most active representative of conservation-minded hunters, anglers and outdoor enthusiasts. NMWF is a practical and solutions-oriented conservation organization, dedicated to finding common ground with landowners and land management agencies to promote win-win solutions that benefit the average outdoor enthusiast and help wildlife thrive.
Audubon New Mexico is part of the National Audubon Society and serves members in New Mexico. The mission of the National Audubon Society is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a UN body comprised of over 2500 scientists from more than 160 countries charged with reporting on the consensus view of scientists on global warming. The reports the IPCC have issued this year leave no question that the scientific community agrees that global warming is real, that's its already affecting the planet we live, that humans are the cause and that emissions need to be reduced dramatically and immediately.
Dooda
Desert Rock (Navajo for "absolutely no" Desert Rock) is an activist
group formed to stop a proposed new coal-fired power plant slated for
the Navajo Nation. The plant would spew an additional 12 million tons
of carbon dioxide, mercury and other toxics into the air each year,
further jeopardizing the health and environment of local communities.
The region is already plagued by two existing coal-fired power plants,
which are among the dirtiest in the country. Additionally, if built,
the plant would wipe out all reductions in global warming emissions
made by the state of New Mexico thus far.