Virtual Earth Week Events in New Mexico and Around the Country

Online Multi-faith Earth Day Service

Sunday, April 19, 12:00 Noon-1:00 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time (2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT)

Washington National Cathedral and Interfaith Power & Light co-host an online service focused on our shared call to climate action. Join us in prayer and song in honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Stay tuned for instructions on dialing in.

Visit NMIPL Facebook Event for more information and updates

Love Made Visible: Engaging Sacred Activism

IPL Annual Week of Faith and Climate Action
Month of April with April 17-26 focus.
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This week, more than 1,500 congregations and hundreds of thousands of people of faith and conscience around the country join virtually together to preach, teach, pray, and act to protect Earth and all who share Our Common Home. We hold all who are suffering from the virus pandemic as we reflect and act this Earth Week.
The national IPL theme this years is Love Made Visible: Engaging in Sacred Activism. Learn how to participate here. Use resources for your remote worship services, take part in IPL’s online Love Made Visible Climate March, view a free film, plant trees in the global south, pledge to vote, and join the daily video prayers for the earth on Interfaith Power & Light’s Facebook page led by faith leaders from several traditions.
Join with the thousands of people on Earth Day at Noon local time who will be praying the beautiful interfaith prayer, “We Hold The Earth”. Sign up to pray, download the prayers, and see the schedule of daily prayer video releases on Facebook here.
Join with the thousands of people on Earth Day at Noon local time who will be praying the beautiful interfaith prayer, “We Hold The Earth”. Sign up to pray, download the prayers, and see the schedule of daily prayer video releases on Facebook here.

A Centro-Laudato Si, Poetry reading with reflections by Mona Lydon-Rochelle

Monday, April 20, 4 pm

Virtual via Zoom. Registration Required. Send name and e-mail address to joan@nm-ipl.org

Mona Lydon-Rochelle will share her long poem with reflections and an opportunity for thoughts as a way to celebrate Earth Week and Pope Francis inspirational and instructional document, Laudato Si: On Care of Our Common Home, which celebrates its 5th anniversary in May. Poem will be sent to those registered after the event. All are welcome.

IPL Earth Day Prayer across the country

April 22, 2020, noon
Sign up to join nationwide

NMIPL Special Interfaith Prayer

To be posted online on April 22, 2020

Watch a video with reflections from leaders representing various faith traditions in New Mexico
Theme: Wisdom from Sister Water

 

Earth Mother Speaks: A Call for Change We Can’t Ignore

April 22 5:30-7:00 p.m.

This Earth Day we are amplifying the voice of our Earth Mother and the voices from the frontlines as we explore the relationship between resistance, resilience, and revolution in the age of COVID-19 & the climate crisis.  Check on Facebook Event for Zoom Registration information.

Hosted by Earth Care, New Energy Economy, XR Climate Action – Santa FeSanta Fe DSAWildEarth Guardians, Tewa Women United, 350 New Mexico and Fight For Our Lives

Faith Call to Climate Justice (FCCJ)

April 22-24

A three-day virtual gathering brought together by an interfaith coalition organizing for climate justice! It is an opportunity for people of all faiths to join together in worship and celebration. We will share songs and sermons and teachings and prayers to raise awareness for climate justice.  Join with other people of faith as we call for climate justice and the healing of this world.

Earth Day Live: Strike, divest, and vote for our future.

April 22-24
The fights against the coronavirus and the climate crisis go hand-in-hand, and as we work to flatten the curve of this pandemic, we must strive toward the longer term goal of building a society rooted in sustainability and justice.
RSVP to join national livestream

Catholic-Buddhist Dialogue: Solidarity and Engagement on Climate Change

An Earth Day Webinar: Thursday, April 23, 8:00-9:30 AM MDT (9:00-10:30 AM CDT)

You are invited to join us for a special Earth Day webinar on Thursday, April 23, exploring how Catholic and Buddhist traditions:

1) Confront the climate crisis, and also what aspects of Catholic and Buddhist traditions contribute to factors that imperil life on the planet.

2) How these traditions might enable us to realize our highest human potential: the deep expression of compassion and love for each other, especially the most vulnerable among us — both human and non-human —bearing the brunt of the suffering.

REGISTER HERE

Speakers:

  • Dekila Chungyalpa: Director – Loka Initiative, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Kathleen Deignan CND: Professor of Religious Studies, Iona College
  • Leo Lefebure: Professor of Theology, Georgetown University
  • David Loy: Professor, Writer, and Zen teacher

Moderator:

  • Joshua Basofin, Director of Climate Program at Parliament of World Religions

This Catholic-Buddhist dialogue is sponsored by Parliament of World Religions, Catholic Climate Covenant, Catholic Association of Diocesan Ecumenical and Interreligious Officers (CADEIO), Earth Day Network, and Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies (SBCS).

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Intersection of Climate Change & Coronavirus NM Town Hall

Wed. April 22, 7-8 pm

Albuquerque Climate Coalition presents a live Webinar with a panel of speakers that includes
Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller
Ahtza Dawn Chavez – NAVA Education Project
Nathalie Eddy – Earthworks
Rebecca Sobel – Wild Earth Guardians
Mark LeClaire –  farmer
Dr. Anne Epstein
Allegra Love – Santa Fe Dreamers Project
Linda Starr – Great Old Broads for Wilderness
YUCCA (Youth United for Climate Crisis Action)
FFOL (Fight for Our Lives) & Mutual Aid ABQ
Mario Atencio, Navajo Community Leader/Dine Care
Joan Brown, NM IPL, Prayer
What will the pandemic can teach us about the societal shifts needed to prepare for the Climate Crisis, locally and globally?  A conversation will follow to hear from the public on their views of the intersection as well as a Questions & Answers.

 

“Imagine! God’s Earth and People Restored”

April 24, 2020, 12 noon MT
Zoom virtual gathering by Franciscan Action Network, registration required.
Typically, the Franciscan family gathers each year for the Ecumenical Advocacy Days conference in DC. Since this is not a typical year we will be gathering by Zoom–with special guest speaker Sr. Joan Brown, OSF of New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light. You must register to be on the call. Capacity is already half full–so be sure to register today. The deadline to register is Monday, April 20th.

 

Communities of Faith, Science-based Policies and COVID

April 24, 3 pm MT
Featuring Dr Adrienne Hollis of Union of Concerned Scientist
and The Rev Scott Onque, Director of Policy at Faith in Place
What role do communities of faith take in advocating for science-based policies considering COVID.