Environment

Pajarito Mountain Ski Patrollers Exchange Program

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Pajarito Mountain Ski Patrol welcomed two patrollers from Snowmass Ski Patrol, Aspen, Colo. From left,  Pajarito Ski Patrol Director Bill Somersault and members Ryan Carlson, Wendi Ackerly, Denny Hjeresen, Jerry Doughty and Mike O’Neill. Courtesy photo
 
SKI News:
 
Pajarito Mountain Ski Patrollers Eric Schaller and Chris Mooney recently participated in an exchange program with patrollers from Aspen Highlands Ski Area.
 
Two patrollers from Aspen Highlands, Ryan Carlson and Jerry Doughty spent a day at Pajarito Mountain and then the Pajarito
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Tales Of Our Times: News Is The Rare Bead In A Big Jar

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Tales of Our Times

By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water

News is the Rare Bead in a Big Jar

 
The jarful of beads standing by the window had as much to teach as any of the fancier exhibits at the big city science museum. The clear plastic jar was of good size, as might hold an ample stock of licorice sticks in a candy store. It got me thinking about motives, and why people are different from science.

The label on the jar said it held one million small colored beads. I read that most of the beads, some 89 percent of the jarful, were blue; 10 percent were yellow; and 1 percent were red.
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PEEC: Learn Botanical Drawing And Watercolor

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Illustration by Lisa Coddington. Courtesy photo
 

PEEC News:

Learn botanical drawing and watercolor using botanical and natural subjects with Santa Fe Artist Lisa Coddington. Novices as well as those refining their skills will receive encouraging step-by-step instruction in drawing and watercolor.

With easy to understand demonstrations and master artist examples, Coddington will work to reinforce each artist’s confidence in creating dimensional autumn-themed subjects. The objective is to finish one small painting and/or develop a series of sketches that support the Read More

Among Our Distant Cousins: An Extinct Pig-Turtle With Tusks

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Christian Kammerer is a paleontologist at the Museum fur Naturkunde (Museum of Natural History) in Berlin, studies mass extinctions and the ancestors of mammals. The photo was taken with a timer in the Paleontological Institute in Moscow while he was examining fossils of mammal-related ancestors from the Ural Mountains. Courtesy photo
 
Artist’s recreation of Bulbasaurus by M. Celeskey. Courtesy image

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

Naturalists worry about endangered species and the threat of a sixth great extinction in the contemporary world, which some fear might sweep Read More

World Futures: What Do We Need? STUFF – Infinite Recycling

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By ANDY ANDREWS
Los Alamos World Futures Institute

In our world today there is much concern about recycling of materials that have been assembled with energy to create something for use by humanity.  

Referring to the Plass table shown in column 2, note that decay and respiration add CO2 to the atmosphere. It can be argued that this is essentially the recycling of organic, carbon-based materials readying them for reconstruction via photosynthesis. Essentially solar recycling of formerly living materials – it is organic.

But what about non-organic materials? In gross terms there are Read More

State Senate Unanimously Confirms Butch Tongate Secretary Of New Mexico Environment Department

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NMED News:
 
SANTA FE — Secretary Designate Butch Tongate has been confirmed unanimously by the Senate as Secretary of the New Mexico Environment Department.
 
Tongate, who has worked at the Environment Department since 1993, was appointed Deputy Secretary in 2011.
 
“I’m proud to have Butch lead this department, which is so important to present and future generations of New Mexicans,” Gov. Susana Martinez said. “As a 23-year veteran of the Environment Department and an integral part of our team since the beginning of the Administration, Secretary Tongate knows what
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Professor Emerita Denise Fort: How Can U.S. Retain Scientific Leadership In Environmental Protection?

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By DENISE D. FORT
Professor Emerita UNM School of Law
Former director, NM Environmental Improvement Division
 
The upheaval in Washington, D.C. that is occurring now has one surprising objective – the discrediting of scientists. Science is under attack in numerous ways.
 
The assertion that climate change is a Chinese hoax was bad enough. Now the Administration has nominated a climate denier to head the EPA, taken down web pages that inform the public about agency work, and threatened to slash funding at EPA.
 
The threat comes from the Congress
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