NMIPL IN THE NEWS

The Norbertine Community in Albuquerque celebrated their new solar field

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norbertine solar blessing 2 (1)The Norbertine Community in Albuquerque celebrated their new solar field, named Pope Francis Solar Field, with a special prayer and blessing in July 2015. The community has previously done energy efficiency work and with the new buildings that are a few years old they incorporated energy efficiency, water saving and xeriscaping. Their work assists their community to have a smaller carbon footprint and is a model for the many educational programs they have and for all who come to utilize their wonderful library and to pray or make retreat days.

For more information see below:

http://www.nm-ipl.org/financing-your-solar-energy-system-models-for-non-profits/

 

Sign the Paris Pledge

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What is the Paris Pledge?

Take the Paris Pledge and commit to reducing your carbon pollution by 50% by the year 2030 and to be carbon neutral by 2050. Together, we can make a real difference.When you take the pledge, Interfaith Power & Light will provide you with helpful resources and tools so you can reach (and maybe even exceed) these commitments.At the end of 2015, leaders from across the world met in Paris to negotiate an agreement on how climate change can be slowed. As people of faith, Interfaith Power & Light communities from across the United States brought to the table examples of what is possible by taking the Paris Pledge. By living as examples, we will show our world leaders that we believe change is not only possible, but happening now.

Will you join us? Sign the Paris Pledge and together we can show that a brighter future is within reach.

Sign the Pledge here!

Watershed Discipleship

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God at work in the World Feature

Watershed Discipleship

As followers of Jesus, what are we doing today that is transformative and earth-honouring?

By Todd Wynward For Meetinghouse

What does a transformative, earth-honouring Christianity look like at ground level and lived out in daily action? Reforms of personal habits—such as recycling, eating locally and shopping responsibly—are important steps. But we’ll need to embody a more vibrant Christian environmental ethic if we are to become the people God yearns for us to be, and to address the overwhelming ecological crisis facing us today. We’ll need to do something wild and take on the yoke of watershed discipleship. Watershed discipleship? It’s an intriguing, provocative term that blends two domains rarely joined in our imaginations: one scientific, the other religious. Yet it’s this kind of paradigm—both data-driven and deeply spiritual, both ancient and new—that Jesus followers will need to adopt in the coming decades if we are to play any significant role in our planet’s healing.

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Carlsbad Current Argus. Sep. 3, 2020 New Mexico finalizes oil and gas wastewater regulations, lawmakers hear testimony (Rev. Nick King Quoted)

Las Cruces Sun-News,  Aug. 19, 2020, Report on solving climate crisis brings hope (Co-authored by Michael Sells, Clara Sims and Edith Yanez)

Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug. 15, 2020 Vote your values this November  (Commentary by Larry Rasmussen and Tabitha Arnold)