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Join a Webinar on IRA resources for nonprofits/houses of worship

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The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that was signed into law last August was the most sweeping clean energy and climate legislation in history. The climate care provisions in the IRA are historic and are imperative in addressing the urgent moral issue of climate justice. 

Included in the IRA, are clean energy tax credits for wind and solar, EVs, efficiency upgrades, heat pumps, and much more for nonprofits, which includes houses of worship.

As people of faith and conscience, reducing the climate impact of our houses of worship is an opportunity to help bring about a just transition to a clean energy economy based on the values we all share: caring for one another and for our common home.

Federal agencies are still in the process of developing the guidance and programs for the Inflation Reduction Act. But join Interfaith Power & Light and the Environmental and Energy Study Insitute for this briefing on what benefits were included in the IRA for nonprofits and houses of worship, and learn when we can expect to see them become available.

Register here

for Webinar on Thursday, Dec. 8, at 2:00 p.m. Mountain Time

Sister Joan Brown: Fall is the season of thank you

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The following is an excerpt from a piece that Sister Joan Brown, executive director of NMEP-IPL, wrote for The Gallup Independent.

“If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.”  –Meister Eckhart

In this quote mystic, priest and Dominican theologian Meister Eckhart expresses a profound and mysterious truth. Nothing is ours and yet every breath, heartbeat, glass of water or morsel of food from each sunrise are given to each of us. But how can one say thank you?

Fall is the season of “Thank you.” We are entering the week of “Thank you.” We may glibly say these sacred words each day … if we remember, but, this time of year calls us to deeper reflection and renewal. Everywhere we turn, in each moment is a gift of Love. The Qur’an 2:115 is eloquent when it states “Everywhere you turn there is the face of God.” How amazing that God, the face of Love peers through each tree and in each child and touches our tongue in a drink of water. This leads me to wonder if mere words of thanks are enough. True thank you’s, I believe require reciprocity and invite us to multiply a gesture of love. Although we may not feel that what ever gesture we offer is adequate, we must act in reciprocity, it is the way of nature and God’s creation.

In fall the trees give leaves to the earth. The earth welcomes the leaves, as do grubs and earthworms who break down the fallen leaves into soil to nurture the tree to bud in spring and give us leaves, shade and even fruit again. The cycle is continual. Giving, thanking, receiving and giving back.

As humans we have gotten into a bad habit of merely taking. As the UN Climate meeting in Egypt ends this weekend we are reminded that the climate crisis we face is because we have dishonored the cycle of our Sister, Mother Earth, Our Home.  Read full article

Watch: IPL President Susan Hendershot Reflects on Recent COP27 Gathering

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As the UN climate conference, COP27, comes to a close, Rev. Susan Hendershot shares her thoughts and takeaways from the last two weeks.

 

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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)