June 15-June 19, 2008
Fourth annual Women's Pecos Wilderness Camping Retreat
Holy Ghost Campground
The forest we see is dependent upon 70% of the forest below the earth that we do not see. In this retreat we will listen, see and smell intently the hidden life beneath the surface. Joan Brown and MJ Zimmerman will lead the retreat that focuses upon ourselves, the forest and Divine Mothers as retreatants explore the messages for each individual and for the world collective. See attached flyer for details or write info@earthspirituality.org or call Joan Brown at 505-266-6966.
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April 5, 2008
Honoring Mt. Taylor: Working Against Uranium Mining
The annual Pilgrimage to Mt. Taylor, “Pilgrimage for Health and Wholeness of Earth Community” drew over 60 people from diverse communities in Northwestern New Mexico. The Partnership for Earth Spirituality and Stewards of Creation co-hosted the event with participants from Laguna and Acoma Pueblos, and several Navajo communities. To see the complete article click here.

February 8, 2008
Community Groups Go to Court to Clean up LANL
Santa Fe, New Mexico—Citing significant violations of the Clean Water Act at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), an alliance of nine New Mexico community organizations and two individuals today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy and the Los Alamos National Security, LLC. (a copy is available at www.amigosbravos.org/lanl.php) This morning at the state capitol building in Santa Fe, the community groups said it was time for LANL to address the substantial contamination problems that are migrating off the lab’s property. More about this...

March 29, 2007
In May 2006, six community organizations sent an historic 60-Day Notice of Intent to Sue to the Department of Energy (DOE) for violations of the Clean Water Act at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The Notice of Intent is a result of LANL’s unwillingness to deal effectively with its historic and on-going toxic discharges, which threaten the Río Grande watershed and regional drinking water supplies.

Today, three new community groups and two individuals are joining to re-send the 60-Day Notice of Intent to Sue DOE and the new management of LANL. These groups and individuals include: the SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP), the New Mexico Acequia Association, the Don Gabino Andrade Community Acequia, Gilbert Sanchez, and Kathy Sanchez. Original groups that signed on to the first Notice are Amigos Bravos, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Embudo Valley Environmental Monitoring Group, Partnership for Earth Spirituality, Rio Grande Restoration and Tewa Women United.

“Our future drinking water supply is threatened,” said Kathy Sanchez, of the Pueblo of San Ildefonso. “There are more than 1400 documented contaminated sites at LANL, and every time it rains or snows, these contaminants move through our canyons and springs to the Río Grande. We want zero contaminants discharged from LANL and we want them to implement Best Management Practices for discharges and dumping.” Click here to read the entire press release.

Desert Rock Power Plant, proposed coal fire power plant near Farmington, NM would greatly increase CO 2 emissions in New Mexico. Some Navajo People are opposing the plant, even though the Navajo Nation has agreed to have the plant. A coalition of groups including NM Interfaith Power and Light is working to oppose a tax incentive for the plant that will come to this legislative session. Click here to learn more.

In the News: “Global Warming Film Unites Preachers and Politics.” A September 11, 2006, wire story from Reuters by Carey Gilliam describes a new film, The Great Warming, intended to have a political impact on global warming this election season. Sponsored by the National Council of Churches of Christ, Presbyterians for Restoring Creation, and leaders of the National Association of Evangelicals and funded by Swiss Re, the giant reinsurance corporation, the film is to persuade conservative Christian evangelicals and other people of faith to demand resolute political action to deal with greenhouse gasses. For the full story, click here.

The Links Initiative. In the course of preparing this website, Partnership volunteers assembled one of the most complete lists of organizations dealing with Earth Spirituality available. (To take a look, click on Links.) Now, webmaster Dorothy “Bunny” Bowen is seeking reciprocal links from those listed, and in the course of her inquiries discovered even more organizations and programs that everybody should know about. If you have some suggestions for your own, contact Bunny by clicking on Webmaster. Thanks.

Complimentary Newsletter Copies will be sent to mailing lists sought from Partnership friends and associates. The inaugural edition of Partnership Notes will be mailed this spring to 1,000 recipients from the lists supplied. To participate, please send names and mailing addresses from your Rolodex or address book to Elena Rodriguez, administrative assistant for the Partnership.

For earlier “What's New” entries, please click on Viewpoints.