For seven years on NMPBS, “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present, and Future” has covered so many aspects of climate change: from the oil and gas industry’s greenhouse gas emissions to how human-caused warming affects our rivers, forests, and public health.  In an all-new special, “Loving Our Changing Homelands,” Our Land Senior Producer Laura Paskus explores the role that love must play in adapting to a changing climate. 

This special was supported in part by PBS's Climate Station Engagement Initiative. 

NMiF airs on NMPBS 5.1 (KNME HD) on Friday, July 12 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, July 14 at 7 a.m., and streaming on the PBS video app.    

NMiF Segments  

‘We’ve been here since time immemorial’   
Guest 
Phoebe Suina (Pueblo of Cochiti), hydrologist & owner, High Water Mark 

‘If we're static, that is unsustainable’ 
Guest 
Phoebe Suina (Pueblo of Cochiti), hydrologist & owner, High Water Mark 

Healing and Adapting with the Land 
Guest 
Paula Garcia, executive director, New Mexico Acequia Association 

Responding to Climate Change 
Guest 
Theresa Pasqual, director, Tribal Historic Preservation Office, Pueblo of Acoma 

‘Being One with Everything’ 
Guest 
Sister Joan Brown, executive director, New Mexico & El Paso Interfaith Power and Light 

Rematriating Seeds in the Face of Change 
Guest 
Aaron Lowden, Indigenous Seed Keepers Network program coordinator, Pueblo of Acoma 

Host & Correspondent
Laura Paskus 

New Mexico in Focus is the New Mexico PBS prime-time news magazine show covering the events, issues, and people shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest. NMiF takes a multi-layered look at social, political, economic health, education, and art issues and explores them in-depth with a critical eye to give them context beyond the "news of the moment."

NMPBS Executive Producer, Public Affairs, is Jeff Proctor. New Mexico in Focus's senior producer for public affairs is Lou DiVizio. “Our Land” Senior Producer is Laura Paskus. The producer of New Mexico in Focus is Antonio Sanchez, and co-producer is Kathy Wimmer.

Funding for New Mexico in Focus is provided by the McCune Charitable Foundation and Viewers Like You.

Funding for the Your New Mexico Government Project comes from the Thornburg Foundation and New Mexico Local News Fund.

The Neeper Natural History Programming Fund for KNME-TV provides funding for Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present & Future.