I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
NMI Managing Editor David Alire Garcia talks with Mazria about Green building and why he thinks changing how we build the places where we live and work can have the biggest impact on global warming. (11 minutes)
It’s no surprise Edward Mazria would be at the forefront of the green-build effort.
He helped put New Mexico on the solar energy map in 1979 with "The Passive Solar Energy Book," a pioneering guide to passive solar construction.
In September 2006, he was honored as the first recipient of an award for environmental sustainability – the Equinox — presented on the 50th anniversary of construction of the world’s first commercial solar building, located in Albuquerque at 213 Truman NE.
Designed and built in 1956 by mechanical engineers Frank Bridgers and Don Paxton, the structure is no longer solar — owners who came after Bridgers and Paxton covered over that aspect – but it is on the national register of historic places as a landmark nonetheless.
