Final issue of Our Land Weekly!
I hope that you each had time with friends, family, and the more-than-human world over the holidays. I was lucky enough to have time off from work and to spend a lot of time with many loved ones.
Over the break, I emailed myself a few news stories I didn’t think people should miss, so I’m going back in time here a bit:
• “New Mexico’s Nuclear Weapons Boom” (Abe Streep, The New Yorker)
• “What happens when climate denialism and misogyny intersect? Enter: ‘petro-masculinity’” (Jessica Kutz, The 19th)
• “See Where Home Insurance Policies Were Dropped in Your State” (Mira Rojanasakul and Christopher Flavelle, The New York Times)
• “The Elephantine Memories of Food-Caching Birds” (Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker)
• “The Rivers Run Dry and the Lights Go Out: A Warming Nation’s Doom Loop” (Julie Turkewitz and José María León Cabrera with photographs by Federico Rios, The New York Times)
This will be my last issue of Our Land Weekly. And sometime in the coming weeks, New Mexico in Focus will air my final piece — a conversation with Source NM reporter Danielle Prokop.
I also wanted to send out one last reminder about Our Land educational resources!
Over the years, I’ve worked with environmental educator Mollie Parsons, who created amazing lesson plans for New Mexico teachers and students based on our shows about issues like climate change, environmental careers, public lands, Water Back, and so much more. You can find all those lesson plans on PBS LearningMedia!
Thank you so much to everyone who has watched the show, read this newsletter, sent a book in the mail, joined me on social media or at a public event. And thank you to all the people who have appeared on Our Land over the past eight seasons. I have loved exploring New Mexico’s environmental issues with all of you!
If you’d like to stay in touch, you can follow me on Instagram or drop a note through my website — and if you’re in Santa Fe, come out to the Southside Library Wednesday night!
Best wishes,
Laura Paskus
