Watch: Interview with Sister Joan on KNME’s New Mexico in Focus

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Watch Sister Joan Brown on Friday, July 12, 7pm on New Mexico in Focus (KNME-TV NM PBS). Laura Paskus, a friend of Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso, conducted the interview.

Here is the text that accompanied KNME-TV’s posting online.

7.12.24 –In 2015, Pope Francis issued an encyclical letter focused on the Earth, the economy and social justice, called “On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si.” In conversation with Our Land’s Laura Paskus, Sister Joan Brown, executive director of New Mexico & El Paso Interfaith Power and Light, talks about what has changed (and what hasn’t) since that encyclical letter. The two also talk about the value of interfaith work in building community and adapting to climate change in New Mexico.

Correspondent: Laura Paskus

Guest: Sister Joan Brown, Executive Director, New Mexico & El Paso Interfaith Power and Light

For More Information: Watch the entire, hour-long special, “Loving Our Changing Homelands.”

 

Photos from Our Booth at Earth Day Festival 2024

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IPL Team and board members staffed our booth at the Earth Day Festival: Save Energy, Money & the Planet on Sunday, April 21. The event took place at Balloon Fiesta Park in Albuquerque. Our team members (Sister Joan Brown, Rev. Clara Sims, Hayley Hathaway), our board members (Judy Brown, Ruth Striegel, Mike Prine, Ann McCartney) and volunteers (Dunia Barahona, Mateo, John Maddaus) took turns speaking to the public, taking signatures for our plug the pipeline peition, helping folks sign a post card to our federal representatives, and selling t-shirts,

Here are some photos

Video: An Evening with Larry Rasmussen

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Larry Rasmussen, a theologian, author and resident of Santa Fe, joined us for a presentation and discussion of his book, ‘The Planet we Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren, When Uncertainty is a Sure Thing,”