Posts Tagged: interfaith power and light

Love Made Visible: Engaging in Sacred Activism

submitted by Sarah Paulos, Community Engagement and Program Manager, Interfaith Power & Light On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans — 10% of the U.S. population at the time — took to the streets, college campuses and hundreds of cities to protest environmental ignorance and demand a new way forward for our planet. That first Earth… Read more »

Celebrating Winners of the Cool Congregations Competition with Interfaith Power and Light!

Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, Overland Park KS, has just been informed they have won first place in the “Energy Savings Category” in the Interfaith Power and Light Cool Congregations 2013 Challenge.   Their submission was an “Adopt-A-Light”  campaign  where they designed and installed a lighting retrofit project saving utility costs AND reducing our CO2 contribution to… Read more »

Solar Power at North Presbyterian Church

Patricia K. Townsend, a member of North Presbyterian Church in Williamsville, NY and a board member for New York Interfaith Power and Light (NYIPL), sent the following story about the path to installing solar power at her church. The article originally appeared in the NYIPL e-newsletter and the Presbytery of Western New York e-newsletter.  Thanks… Read more »

Huguenot Memorial Church Eco-Update

New York Church Works for Holistic Environmental Stewardship Members of the Environmental Ministries Action network from Huguenot Memorial Church in Pelham, NY sent the following update on environmental stewardship in their congregation.  The information is excerpted from a church newsletter article from winter 2011 written by Elders Elysa Peters and Eric Smith.  At Huguenot Church,… Read more »