Conservation
Conservation is essential to the solution of climate change and to the advancement of the common good.
Collaboration
CCLI is a co-founder and collaborator of the New Mexico Healthy Soil Working Group encouraging conservation and regenerative agriculture.
Organization
CCLI organized the Conservation Quest project to emphasize the important interplay and synergy between energy use, water and climate stability.
Recognition
CCLI gives out annual conservation leadership seed grant awards (see the past recipients below).
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
– Jane Goodall
Conservation Award Recipients
Current Award Winner
Maggie O’Knapp with the NM Bison Restoration Network
For striving for the reintroduction of Bison which helps regenerate the land.
Past Award Winners
Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps
For reconnecting young people from tribal and pueblo communities to the land they love.
Ernest and Edwina Diswood
For their original vision of regenerative agriculture and their dedication to conservation at the Rough Stone Ranch in Navajo Nation.
William deBuys
For raising awareness of the primacy of nature through writing and action.
The Santa Fe Seamstress Design Center
Tammy Fiebelkorn
For advancing energy savings in the Southwest.
Reunity Farm
For their outstanding endeavors to engage the community and re-invigorate the land with regenerative agriculture.
NM Healthy Soil Initiative
Supporting NM ranchers, farmers and other land managers in the pursuit of healthy soil (which can lower agriculture related greenhouse gas emissions and serve as a powerful carbon sink while retaining water, improving productivity and providing wealth of other benefits.) Learn more about this initiative here
Bobby Kennedy Jr.
For longstanding environmental stewardship & the establishment of the Rio Grande WaterKeepers (C/O WildEarth Guardians).
Mitch Varela
For his commitment to walking in our local community / the seed grant will support walkability in Santa Fe.
David Berkeley
For regularly biking his kids to school.
Dr. Jeri Sullivan Graham with LANL
For her work advancing the energy & water nexus.
Santa Fe Public Schools
Lisa Randall, Energy Conservation Program Coordinator
Mike Lopach, Founder, Adobe in Action
Diane Karp, Executive Director, Santa Fe Art Institute
Sandra Klessen
For her extra-ordinary personal commitment to energy conservation and sustainability.