Celebrating Faith and Sustainability
New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light (NMIPL)
Annual Fall Harvest Gathering
Sat. Nov. 15, 2014, 2-4 pm
First Unitarian Church, ABQ
Rev. Fletcher Harper, Director of Green Faith
Come at 1:15 to tour the new Platinum LEED Sanctuary and learn how First Unitarian installed solar through a lease agreement
Special Presentation
“Faith, Money, Earth and Divestment”
Rev. Fletcher Harper, Director of GreenFaith
Some call this the watershed moment for climate change. How you invest your money as an individual, faith community, diocese or judicatory matters.
Numerous religious institutions are divesting from fossil fuels including: World Council of Churches, United Church of Christ, and Unitarian Universalists. Presbyterian Church USA and the Methodist Conference are considering divestment and a growing number of local Episcopal dioceses and
congregations of various traditions including Friend’s Meeting Houses and Catholic institutions are joining the divestment/reinvestment climate justice call. Come learn why and how.
*Celebrate faith communities and individuals receiving SEED and SPROUT awards for stewardship, energy efficiency and renewable energy work
*Learn about NMIPL’s current work *Join in a great silent auction
*Enjoy music & amazing homemade snacks and desserts
Download the flyer: Annual meeting flyer (2)
Young, old and everyone is invited. Spread the word.
Information at joan@nm-ipl.org or check our website www.nm-ipl.org
Celebrating Faith and Sustainability – Annual Fall Harvest Gathering
/in Uncategorized /by adminCelebrating Faith and Sustainability
New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light (NMIPL)
Annual Fall Harvest Gathering
Sat. Nov. 15, 2014, 2-4 pm
First Unitarian Church, ABQ
Rev. Fletcher Harper, Director of Green Faith
Come at 1:15 to tour the new Platinum LEED Sanctuary and learn how First Unitarian installed solar through a lease agreement
Special Presentation
“Faith, Money, Earth and Divestment”
Rev. Fletcher Harper, Director of GreenFaith
Some call this the watershed moment for climate change. How you invest your money as an individual, faith community, diocese or judicatory matters.
Numerous religious institutions are divesting from fossil fuels including: World Council of Churches, United Church of Christ, and Unitarian Universalists. Presbyterian Church USA and the Methodist Conference are considering divestment and a growing number of local Episcopal dioceses and
congregations of various traditions including Friend’s Meeting Houses and Catholic institutions are joining the divestment/reinvestment climate justice call. Come learn why and how.
*Celebrate faith communities and individuals receiving SEED and SPROUT awards for stewardship, energy efficiency and renewable energy work
*Learn about NMIPL’s current work *Join in a great silent auction
*Enjoy music & amazing homemade snacks and desserts
Download the flyer: Annual meeting flyer (2)
Young, old and everyone is invited. Spread the word.
Information at joan@nm-ipl.org or check our website www.nm-ipl.org
World Food Day Dinner – Saturday, October 18, 6 pm
/in Uncategorized /by adminWorld Food Day Dinner
Saturday, October 18, 6 pm
First Congregational Church, ABQ, 2801 Lomas NE (off Girard)
NMIPL and OXFAM are joining together to celebrate World Food Day and make the connections with food, climate change and food security and food sovereignty. Enjoy a great local produce meal and inspirational speakers connecting food, local economy and climate change. All are welcome!
Meal is no charge—Great Presentations—Wonderful Community Sharin
Evelyn Salce Curtis Losack – Guest Speaker
Evelyn Salce Curtis Losack is a music teacher, writer,
photographer and farmer. The story of her Corrales community told (and pictured) in If There’s Squash Bugs in Heaven, I Ain’t Staying: Learning to Make the Perfect Pie, Sing When You Need To, and Find the Way Home With Farmer Evelyn. Spragg-Braude worked for many years as a photographer for
the Albuquerque Tribune. Her many works also include a portfolio focused on Bulgaria’s Roma community and the book To Walk in Beauty: A
Navajo Family’s Journey Home.
Download the Flyer here:
World Food Day Dinner 2 (1)
Co-sponsored by OXFAM Action Corps and NM Interfaith Power and Light
People’s Climate Pilgrimage, Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM 9-20-14
/in Uncategorized /by adminCheck out the short video on the Cliamte March help on September 20, 2014 in Albuquerque New Mexico
Check out some of the media coverage on the march!
http://www.abqjournal. com/465694/abqnewsseeker/ demonstrators-march-downtown- call-for-action-on-global- warming.html
http://www.sfreporter.com/ santafe/article-9222-climate- march.html
http://krqe.com/2014/09/20/ news-briefs-saturday- september-20-2014/
http://www.santafenewmexican. com/news/local_news/santa- feans-to-join-world-in- marching-for-action-on/ article_361a6f2a-2bca-55ff- a40b-1c785e0d166a.html