From Policy to Pavement: Advancing Decarbonization Through Development

Schedule

Tue Oct 28 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

SITE SANTA FE | Santa Fe, NM

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This session will explore practical strategies for accelerating the energy transition, especially in the places where we live and work.
About this Event

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The Homewise Livability Speaker Series, launched in 2023, is a community education program that features local and national experts discussing how housing markets become unaffordable and exploring strategies to manage development for greater affordability, sustainability, and livability. Our 2025 Santa Fe series will take place monthly from July through October.


Childcare and interpretation will be provided. When reserving your ticket, please indicate if you need childcare or interpretation. This is a free, ticketed event that we anticipate will sell out, so we encourage you to get your ticket today!


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Join EMNRD (Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department of the State of New Mexico) Secretary Melanie Kenderdine for an illuminating conversation on decarbonization—the urgent work of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by shifting to cleaner energy, improving efficiency, and reimagining how we power our homes and communities. This session will explore practical strategies for accelerating the energy transition, especially in the places where we live and work.

Drawing on decades of experience in energy policy—including senior roles at the U.S. Department of Energy under Presidents Obama and Clinton, and as co-founder of the Washington, D.C.–based Energy Futures Initiative—Secretary Kenderdine will share insights into New Mexico’s statewide decarbonization strategy. She will also offer concrete ideas for how communities like Santa Fe can support low- and moderate-income households in making their homes more energy-efficient, resilient, and climate-friendly.

As Santa Fe undertakes its first major update to the general plan and land use code in decades, this timely session invites us to consider how smart, inclusive development can help build a more sustainable, equitable future—locally and statewide.


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Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham appointed Melanie A. Kenderdine as Cabinet Secretary of the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD) in May 2024.

Before joining EMNRD, Kenderdine was co-founder, Principal and Executive Vice President of the Energy Futures Initiative, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to harnessing the power of technology and policy innovation to accelerate the clean energy transition.

Prior to co-founding the Energy Futures Initiative, Kenderdine held high-level positions at the U.S. Department of Energy in both the Obama and Clinton administrations.

In the Obama administration, Kenderdine helped create Mission Innovation, now a 26-country initiative that supports transformational clean energy research, development, and demonstration; North American grid integration and security; and the modernization of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Kenderdine’s DOE Office led the management and analysis for the Quadrennial Energy Review, a multi-year, 22-agency roadmap for US energy policy.

During the Clinton administration, she was a primary architect of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve oil exchange of 2000, the creation of the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, and the return of the Naval Oil Shale Reserve No. 2 to the Ute tribe in Utah, the largest land transfer back to Native Americans in the lower 48 in over 100 years.


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La Serie de Oradores sobre Habitabilidad de Homewise es un programa de educación comunitaria creado en 2023 que presenta oradores locales y nacionales que ayudan a los residentes a aprender cómo los mercados inmobiliarios se vuelven inasequibles y formas de gestionar los patrones de desarrollo para aumentar la asequibilidad, la sostenibilidad y la habitabilidad. Nuestra serie 2025 se llevará a cabo una vez al mes de marzo a junio.


Se proporcionará cuidado de niños e interpretación. Al reservar su boleto, indique si necesita cuidado de niños o interpretación. Este es un evento gratuito con entrada que anticipamos que se agotará, por lo que te animamos a que consigas tu entrada hoy.


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Acompaña a Melanie Kenderdine, secretaria del Departamento de Energía, Minerales y Recursos Naturales del Estado de Nuevo México (EMNRD, por sus siglas en inglés) en una conversación informativa sobre la descarbonización—el trabajo urgente de reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero mediante la transición a energías más limpias, la mejora de la eficiencia energética y la reimaginación de cómo energizamos nuestros hogares y comunidades.

Con décadas de experiencia en políticas energéticas—incluyendo cargos de alto nivel en el Departamento de Energía de los Estados Unidos bajo los presidentes Obama y Clinton, y como cofundadora de la organización Energy Futures Initiative con sede en Washington, D.C.—la Secretaria Kenderdine compartirá su perspectiva sobre la estrategia estatal de descarbonización de Nuevo México. También ofrecerá ideas concretas sobre cómo comunidades como Santa Fe pueden apoyar a los hogares de ingresos bajos y moderados para que sus viviendas sean más eficientes, resilientes y amigables con el clima.

A medida que Santa Fe emprende la primera gran actualización de su plan general y su código de uso del suelo en décadas, esta sesión oportuna nos invita a reflexionar sobre cómo un desarrollo inteligente e inclusivo puede ayudarnos a construir un futuro más sostenible y equitativo—a nivel local y estatal.


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La Gobernadora Michelle Lujan Grisham nombró a Melanie A. Kenderdine como Secretaria del Gabinete del Departamento de Energía, Minerales y Recursos Naturales de Nuevo México (EMNRD, por sus siglas en inglés) en mayo de 2024.

Antes de unirse al EMNRD, Kenderdine fue cofundadora, directora y vicepresidenta ejecutiva de Energy Futures Initiative, una organización sin fines de lucro con sede en Washington, D.C., dedicada a aprovechar el poder de la tecnología y la innovación en políticas para acelerar la transición hacia la energía limpia.

Antes de cofundar Energy Futures Initiative, Kenderdine ocupó altos cargos en el Departamento de Energía de los Estados Unidos durante las administraciones de Obama y Clinton.

Durante la administración de Obama, Kenderdine ayudó a crear Mission Innovation, una iniciativa que ahora cuenta con 26 países y apoya la investigación, el desarrollo y la demostración de tecnologías energéticas limpias transformadoras; la integración y seguridad de la red eléctrica norteamericana; y la modernización de la Reserva Estratégica de Petróleo. Su oficina en el DOE lideró la gestión y el análisis de la Revisión Cuadrienal de Energía, una hoja de ruta de múltiples años y 22 agencias para la política energética de EE.UU.

Durante la administración de Clinton, fue una de las principales arquitectas del intercambio de petróleo de la Reserva Estratégica de Petróleo en el año 2000, la creación de la Reserva de Combustible para Calefacción del Noreste y la devolución de la Reserva Naval de Esquisto Bituminoso No. 2 a la tribu Ute en Utah, la mayor transferencia de tierras a pueblos indígenas en los 48 estados contiguos en más de 100 años.

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