Clearly New Mexico

Sierra Club Endorses Obama for President 

Joins United Steelworkers, Senator Brown in Call for Clean Energy Future

Cleveland, OH: With a giant wind turbine representing America's clean energy future as a backdrop, the Sierra Club and United Steelworkers today jointly endorsed Barack Obama as the change America needs.

TUESDAY APRIL 29th 2008

Thousands of Citizens to Candidates “We have the Power2Change”

Campaign Shows that New Mexicans Want Candidates to Lead on Clean Energy Issues

Albuquerque, NM – At the culmination of Sierra Club’s Power2Change campaign, Sierra Club New Mexico today announced that 5,329 citizens have added their voices to the call for candidates up and down the ballot in New Mexico to make the right choices and pledge to support local, state, and federal policies that will create a new energy future for America. Part of a national effort focused in nine states, the Power2Change collected over 50,000 signatures nationwide in the past month and educated voters about the choice we face in 2008 as well as the contrasts between competing visions of our energy future.

April, 28 2008

"New Sierra Club Poll Shows Hispanic Voters Concerned about Global Warming and Energy, Willing to Take Action"

Groundbreaking Bendixen & Associates-Conducted Poll is the First-Ever National Survey of Hispanic Voters on Energy and Environmental Issues

Washington, D.C. - Hispanic voters are overwhelmingly concerned about energy, global warming and environmental issues and are willing to take action to find solutions, according to results of a Sierra Club-sponsored national poll released today and conducted by Bendixen & Associates. The first-ever national poll of Hispanics on environmental issues was conducted March 20-30, 2008, and it found that U.S. Hispanics - a growing and powerful demographic - are deeply connected to nature and are concerned about the environment enough to take action to protect their communities and their families.

APRIL 22nd 2008

"Sierra Club Leads New Mexico’s Call for Change this Earth Day"

Radio ad and volunteer CFL giveaways highlight New Mexico Sierra Club’s efforts to educate voters about our choices in 2008

Albuquerque – This Tuesday, April 22nd the New Mexico Sierra Club joined with thousands of New Mexicans in celebration of Earth Day. As part of the Power2Change campaign, an unprecedented grassroots organizing effort in the community, volunteers handed out free CFL lightbulbs, gathered hundreds of petition signatures, and talked to New Mexicans about how we have the technology, know-how and power to build a clean energy future, but what we have lacked is the political will.

On Wednesday, March 26th at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center the Sierra Club launched its new Power 2 Change campaign with the help of representatives from Sacred Power and Albuquerque City Councilor Rey Garduño. Power 2 Change is intended to educate the public about how the environment is at stake in the 2008 elections. It is focused on 9 states and will challenge politicians up and down the ticket in all parties to place the environment at the forefront of the upcoming political campaigns.

“The choices we make in 2008 will define our future, especially when it comes to the election and energy issues,” said Michael Casaus, the Sierra Club’s Southwest Regional Representative. “The contrast could not be sharper – we can move forward to a clean energy economy that creates jobs, save consumers money and solves global warming, or we can continue the expensive, polluting policies of the past.”