IPL Leaders Attend Launch of Energy Efficiency Program

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This week, New Mexico unveiled its Home and Appliance Rebates (HEAR) program, and many of our partner organizations were at the launch. Executive director Joan Brown, osf, and Rev. Clara Sims posed for the picture below, along with many partners.

This state program, made possible thanks to investments from the Biden-Harris administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, will make energy-saving home improvements and appliances more affordable for eligible New Mexicans.

New Mexico’s HEAR program will be rolled out in phases — starting with do-it-yourself insulation at participating retailers. Low-income owners of single-family homes will be eligible for up to $1,600 on these home improvements when they purchase materials at participating retail stores.

Photo courtesy of Lilliana Castillo

 

A Celebration of Water & the Rio Grande

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IPL New Mexico-El Paso hosted Rio Unidos: Rio Grande Project celebration at Tingley Beach Overlook on Saturday, August 24.  This was a great morning of reflections, blessings and meditations. Thank you to board member Rev. Ryan Tate and spiritual leader D’Santi Nava for leading us in movement and prayer

Celebrate the Season of Creation

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The Season of Creation, which runs from Sept. 1 to October 4, is a time to renew our relationship with our Creator and all creation through celebration, conversion, and commitment together. This monthlong prayerful observance calls 2.2 billion Christians, along with other people of faith and conscience, to pray and care for God’s creation. During the Season of Creation, we join our sisters and brothers in the ecumenical family in prayer and action for our common home.  Here is a “Celebration Guide”

Rosh Hashanah (Sept 22-24)

Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin explores the environmental underpinnings in Rosh Hashanah prayers that lead us to recognize our stewardship and role in protecting the world in which we live! Environmental Underpinnings in Rosh Hashanah Liturgy: We are Stewards of Our World…

 

Here is a running calendar (which we will update)

  • September 1: Opening prayer service led by the Season of Creation Ecumenical Steering Committee. Watch the live event here.   Creation Day Read more (Laudato Si Movement)
  • September 1: Restoration, Renewal, Regeneration and…. Justice?? (Lutherans Restoring Creation-Gulf Coast)
  •  September 4, September 11, September 18, September 25: 6:00 PM -And God Saw that It Was Good  Register Here for each of the four sessions  (Christ the King ELCA/Lutherans Restoring Creation Gulf Coast)
  • September 5:  Steps to Act with Creation:  A reflective webinar , focusing on our relationship with the natural world and our role as stewards of God’s creation.  Register Here  (Laudato Si Action)
  • September 10: Webinar about the Fossil Fuels Non-Proliferation Treaty with high-level speakers from religious and political spheres. Find more details on how to join the event here.  (Laudato Si Movement)
  • September 21: Fossil Fuels Day of Action. Find more information here.  (Laudato Si Movement)
  • September 22-24: Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin explores the environmental underpinnings in Rosh Hashanah prayers that lead us to recognize our stewardship and role in protecting the world in which we live! Environmental Underpinnings in Rosh Hashanah Liturgy: We are Stewards of Our World… (The Schecther Institutes, Inc.)  Rosh Hashanah is actually October 3-4 (starting after sunset on Oct 2).
  • September 24: One Home One Future: Celebrating One Year of Hope in Action.  Events All Day culminating in a Special Celebration at 5:00 PM MT Check out all 10 sessions, music, speakers, and more! Register Here
  • September 25 Earth Spirit Sharing / Fall Equinox   Led by Lisa Leahigh, a Buddhist practitioner who is in a chaplaincy program through Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe,  Register Here (IPL New Mexico & El Paso)
  • October 4: Closing prayer service for the Feast of St. Francis led by the Ecumenical Youth Committee. Find more details on how to join the event here.  (Laudato Si Movement)