Resources
Pursuing a Green Amendment in New Mexico
Learn more about how the NM Green Amendment will bring critical protections for New Mexico’s environment and communities with these updated 2024 resources:
- NM Green Amendment Flyer
- Learn more about How a New Mexico Green Amendment Can Benefit Communities
- Learn more about how the New Mexico Green Amendment is a Tool for Advancing Environmental Justice, Community Protection & Health
- New Mexico Green Amendment Key Points of Understanding
- Answers to some of your pressing questions can be found on our NM Green Amendment Frequently Asked Questions document
NM Green Amendment — Learn about the 2025 proposal
June 20, 2024 the New Mexico Green Amendment Coalition Hosted a Special Program To Roll Out & Discuss the 2025 Version of Constitutional Language Representing the NM Green Amendment.
Did you miss it?
Or maybe you made it but want to revisit the great program involving educators, activists and legislators.
View the program discussion in the Green Amendment Action Platform’s New Mexico Community. Not already on the platform? You can sign up for the Action Platform here.
New Mexico: A Resource or Sacrifice State? Recording now available
A webinar hosted by Indivisible Nob Hill and Green Amendments For The Generations to discuss NM’s most pressing environmental issues and how a Green Amendment could help provide a solution.
- Nuclear issues in New Mexico, in particular waste storage plans in Lea County by Holtec International, presented by Leona Morgan and Eileen Shaughnessy
- Health impacts of methane pollution, presented by Mario Atencio
- A Green Amendment as a solution, presented by Green Amendments For the Generations founder Maya van Rossum.
Watch the recording of this Zoominar – use the password: 5L@Zv5=$ to access.
Learn about the author of the book & founder of the Green Amendment movement – Maya K. van Rossum
Green Amendments For Climate & Clean Energy
Green Amendments are a powerful tool for helping to address the climate crisis, including by advancing good quality clean energy projects.
A special forum of experts was held to dive in on how and why.
You can watch the forum and learn from the panel of experts here (scroll down past the agenda and speaker bios until you find the video), on the Green Amendment Action Platform. Not already on the platform? You can sign up for the Action Platform here.
Here are some written resources that help explain exactly how and why Green Amendments are value added for addressing climate change, including by advancing good quality clean energy:
- Green Amendments For Climate . How It Works
- Green Amendments For Climate . How It Works Green Amends for Climate . Taking On The Opposition
- An overview of the benefits of the New Mexico Green Amendment & How It Helps Government Respond to the Climate Crisis
Industry lobbyists have been working behind the scenes with a misinformation campaign to undermine the critical value of the NM Green Amendment for helping to advance good quality clean energy. Get all the details on how to respond to their false claims:
Understanding the Environmental Justice Values
The NM Green Amendment will be a beneficial tool for advancing environmental justice and ending environmental racism. Learn more in these helpful resources:
- Constitutional Green Amendments: Making Environmental Justice A Reality published in the ABA Natural Resources & Environment Magazine
- ELI Dialogue: Green Amendments, a Vehicle for Environmental Justice, Panel Discussion Fall 2021
Help Us Secure Green Amendment Protections in New Mexico & Nationwide
Your donation today will help us do the work, provide the expertise, inspire supporters and take on the challengers so that every person and community in New Mexico and nationwide can have a true RIGHT, that is enforceable, to a clean, safe & healthy environment.
Understanding and Implementing a Green Amendment in New Mexico
- NM Green Amendment Flyer
- Explaining the Benefits of a New Mexico Green Amendment in a way everyone can understand
- The New Mexico Green Amendment, a Tool for Advancing Environmental Justice, Community Protection & Health
- New Mexico Green Amendment Key Points of Understanding
- NM Green Amendment Frequently Asked Questions & Their Answers
- NM Green Amendment & its Implications for Government Action & the Climate
- NM Green Amendment For Clean Energy Memo — Telling the Truth & Taking on the Opposition 1.23.23
- Constitutional Green Amendments: Making Environmental Justice A Reality | ABA Journal on Natural Resources & Environment
- How Green Amendments Protect Key Environmental Rights | Law 360
- Understanding the Importance and Value of Trustee Language in the Proposed NM Green Amendment
- The Process for Amending the NM Constitution
- From 2021 Legislative Session: Comparing New Mexico Proposals on Civil Rights, Public Right of Action, and Environmental Rights
How Green Amendments Are Making a Difference Where They Exist
The Green Amendment Concept
- The Green Amendment, The People’s Fight For a Clean, Safe & Healthy Environment —The Book
- What is a Green Amendment
- Green Amendment Checklist: The Essential Elements of a Green Amendment
- Constitutional Green Amendments: Making Environmental Justice A Reality | ABA Natural Resources & Environment Magazine
- ELI Dialogue: Green Amendments, a Vehicle for Environmental Justice, Panel Discussion Fall 2021
- How Green Amendments Protect Key Environmental Rights | Law 360
- Green Amendments: Giving Constitutional Power to Environmental Justice – Fact Sheet
- Demanding and Defending Your Rights to Clean Air, Clean Water, & a Healthy Environment
- How To Implement & Apply a Green Amendment
- Protections Offered with Trust Language in a Green Amendment
- Using Green Amendments to Strengthen Environmental Justice
- Benefits of a Constitutional Provision Protecting Environmental Rights
- Green Amendments, Properly Placed and Written, Are A Restraint On Governmental Authority – Article By Team of Attorneys that Successfully Argued PA Case
- The Green Amendment: An Idea Whose Time It Has Always Been, by Gerald J. Williams, Esq.
Webinars & Video Content
- Green Amendments For Climate & Clean Energy – a Special Forum of Experts You can watch the forum and learn from the panel of experts here, on the Green Amendment Action Platform. Not already on the platform? You can sign up for the Action Platform here. (Note, this video content is only available on the Green Amendment Action App. If you are on the platform already you will be taken directly to the content, if you have not yet joined you will need to sign up and sign in to see the video.)
- View the October NM Green Amendment Town Hall where legislators shared the new language to be proposed and answered questions about important next steps: https://app.forthegenerations.org/events/36u8xwv/about . (Note, this video content is only available on the Green Amendment Action App, NM Community. If you are on the platform you will be taken directly to the content, if you have not yet joined you will need to sign up and sign in to see the video.)
- The Green Amendment: New Mexico
- Radio Show: Maya K. van Rossum on the Richard Eeds Show, KTRC Santa Fe
- New Mexico: A Resource or Sacrifice State – use the password: 5L@Zv5=$ to access.
- Facebook Live with Senator Sedillo Lopez
- Free the Bills Press Conference
- Legislative Briefing: 50th Anniversary of PA’s Green Amendment
- The Impact of Pennsylvania Green Amendments on Decisionmaking in Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania’s Environmental Rights Amendment in Practice
- More video content available on Youtube
- Watch & Listen: press, podcast, & media content
Se puede explorar nuestras materiales aqui
- Que es un Enmienda Verde?
- Exigiendo y defendiendo tu derecho a agua limpia, aire limpio, y un ambiente saludable
- Enmienda Verde lista de control
- Protecciones ofrecidas incorporando el lenguaje de un fideicomiso en la Enmienda Verde de un Estado
- Haciendo que la justicia ambiental sea una obligación real del gobierno
- Por que necesitamos una Enmienda Verde de Nuevo Mexico?
- Petición Imprimible de la Enmienda Verde de Neuvo Mexico
Resources for Teachers/Educators
- Green Amendment Teacher Guide (Print | Screen)
- Student Guide and more available
- Virtual Canoe Race – Online educational adventure game that teaches Geography, History, and Science in a trivia contest format
- Article: How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change — & Why You Have To
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