Jordan Vaughan Smith

We’re nearing the end of this year’s CAVU Student Showcase with our biggest awards remaining: The Most Impactful Award and the Climate Innovation Challenge Founder’s…

Many of the critical problems climate change presents communities around the world cannot be solved through datasets and formulas alone. That’s why both of these…

Across this year’s CAVU Student Showcase, students didn’t just learn about climate change—they told stories, built solutions, and showed what’s possible when young people are…

The future is already here. It’s time to meet it. What if the most promising climate solutions in the world weren’t coming from boardrooms… but…

In an exciting stroke of the pen, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced this week that New Mexico will join the U.S. Climate Alliance, adding New…

We are thrilled to report that the newly appointed members of New Mexico’s Oil Conservation Commission have voted to suspend and rehear their recent order…

“With new leadership in the state house, comes new opportunity to makes real gains for our state,” said CAVU’s Executive Director, Jordan Vaughan Smith. “In…

Recently CAVU launched its Methane Matters campaign to create awareness and gather public input on New Mexico’s HUGE methane problem.

“We are placed in a role not merely of dominance over but in dependence upon the natural world, serving in sacred stewardship.”  —Reverend Andrew Black

As CAVU works to tell the multifaceted story of oil and gas in New Mexico, the Unearthed Initiative continues to grow in viewership and partnership…

CAVU is set to launch Unearthed: Exploring Oil & Gas Issues in New Mexico at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe on Thursday, November…