About
GRIP
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. Despite our small size, we have taken
on some of the largest challenges facing southwestern
New Mexico. The High Country News (12/3/01) described
us as 'a plucky group of activists' for prodding Phelps
Dodge and the state to develop acceptable plans for mine
closure and reclamation. We also promote planning, groundwater
protection, and free-running rivers in the face of unsustainable
development practices. Our approach to these challenges
has been to bring technical, policy, and - when necessary
- legal expertise to this area and then to combine these
resources with an informed and involved public.
Gila Resources Information Project Living Green Series presents:
 Hybrid Houses
Top 10 Strategies for Energy-Saving Buildings
with Catherine Wanek
author & director of Builders Without Borders
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7
7:00 pm, silco theater
downtown silver city
A visual tour of contemporary homes designed to reduce energy use and carbon emissions. Examples include an Earthship in New Mexico, an urban remodel in Takoma Park, MD, a solar-powered community in Arizona, a model for rebuilding in Louisiana, a wind and solar ranch in Kansas, a straw-bale "passive house" in the Swiss Alps, and an award-winning housing development in China. These innovative "hybrid" homes offer a vision of a sustainable future -- available today.
For Immediate Release
Date: June 26, 2008
Contact: Allyson Siwik, Executive Director
Gila Resources Information Project
575.538.8078 office 575.590.7619 cell
GRIP Settles Appeal of Chino Mine Dilution Proposal
Freeport-McMoRan Agrees to Water Treatment,
Saving 9000 acre-feet of Clean Groundwater Annually
Silver City, NM – The Gila Resources Information Project (GRIP) has won its five-year fight against Chino Mine’s proposal to dilute contaminated water with clean groundwater rather than use more effective treatment technology. The environmental group announced today that it had reached a settlement with the mine under which Chino will use an advanced form of reverse osmosis to remove metals and sulfates from the wastewater it will produce for hundreds of years after mining stops at the site. Read more
High Demand Spurs High Copper Prices
If you think gasoline prices are skyrocketing, take a look at copper. In 1911, a pound of raw, high-grade copper cost about 12 cents. As recently as 1956, the price was only 39 cents. But for much of 2008 that same amount of ore sold for around $4 a pound. Since 2002 alone, copper’s value has risen over 600 percent, making it one of the best performers in the precious metals market. (Prices also have risen dramatically for gold, silver, molybdenum, platinum, palladium, zinc, nickel, tungsten, and uranium.) Read More.
Lone Mountain Copper Project Back on the Table?
In 2005 the Canadian mineral exploration corporation, Augusta Resources, acquired 100% interest in the Lone Mountain Copper Zinc Project, encompassing about 640 acres located at the southern end of Kirkland Road in Arenas Valley, 5 miles east of Silver City. Read More.
New
to the GRIP Library! Available for Short-term Loan
Southwestern New Mexico Environmental Health Resource Guide. English/Spanish. June 2008. Produced by GRIP under contract to the Office of Border Health/New Mexico Department of Health. Developed to help citizens address environmental health issues in their communities, the bilingual Environmental Health Resource Guide provides community members and organizations with local, state and federal contact information for the most common environmental health topics in the four counties of southwestern New Mexico (Catron, Grant, Luna and Hidalgo counties). The guide also offers answers to a variety of frequently asked questions by environmental health topic. Download the electronic version from www.gilaresources. info or call GRIP at 538.8078 to request a hard copy.
The Future of Nature: Writing on A Human Ecology, from Orion magazine. Selected and introduced by Barry Lopez, 2007. Described as “required reading for those interested in a livable future, this collection explores the barriers that divide humanity from the natural world and reveals the damning results of that division. The Future of Nature looks through our pervasive ecological crises to the root causes in human culture and offers a path beyond.” Anonymous donation.
The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming. Laurie David and Cambria Gordon. 2007. “[This] is the comprehensive resource readers can look to for understanding why global warming happens and the ways it impacts our planet, and how we can work together to stop it. Irreverent and entertaining, and packed with essential facts and suggestions for how to effect change, The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming offers a message of hope.” Appropriate for kids and adults. Anonymous donation.
New Mexico Residential Water Issues: How Can We Use Water Wisely in the Home? DVD of June 11, 2008 GRIP Living Green Program presentation with Cheri Vogel, Water Conservation Coordinator with the NM Office of the State Engineer. Cheri discussed the range of conservation measures that we as individuals can implement inside and outside our homes to save water.
Farewell, My Subaru 2008. Written by Doug Fine -- Mimbres Valley resident, author and National Public Radio contributor. “The details of Doug Fine’s experiment in green living are great fun-- but more important is the spirit, the dawning understanding that living in connection to something more tangible than a computer mouse is what we were built for. It’ll make you want to move!” Donated by the author.
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