The mission of Interfaith Power & Light is to be faithful stewards of Creation by responding to global warming through the promotion of energy conservation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy.
California Delivers is a broad coalition of businesses, professionals, families, community and faith leaders, environmental organizations, public officials, and individuals, focused on extending the benefits of clean energy and policies that benefit all Californians.
GRID Alternatives partners with state and local governments, equipment manufacturers and other organizations to provide no- to very-low-cost solar for families living with limited or fixed incomes.
as been the chair of the environmental ministry (EDEN) of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena since 2010, and has been active in eco-spiritual activities in Episcopal and Presbyterian churches since 1990. He helped form and now chairs the Arroyo Interfaith Environmental Council, active since 2014 and a Working Group of California Interfaith Power & Light. His faith work partially reflects a long career as a, now retired, municipal recycling coordinator. He is also active in groups fighting climate change, advocating for native plants, and promoting zero waste solutions.
climate marches in Wilmington, Sacramento, Oakland and San Diego to an Earth Fair at Sacramento’s Trinity Cathedral 2017 reveals a persistent and diverse spiritual and religious witness for the earth in the Golden State. California Interfaith Power & Light’s climate-mindful member congregations and partnering regional action networks are expressing the grief, fear, hope, resilience, strength, and visionary wisdom within our faith communities and us. Whatever goes on in Washington DC, California’s faith communities are resolved to advance meaningful climate action, cut pollution and forward a clean energy agenda.
nary sources of pollution. In the January AQMD Board meeting, staff included a moment of silence in its public comment period, for all the persons who suffer as a result of polluted air, and for the estimated 5,200 persons who will die each year from pollution-related causes. CIPL was present again at the February Board meeting, in which the Board was scheduled to vote on the AQMP and, instead, put off the vote when faced with five hours of public testimony and a rally outside its headquarters. In its vote at the March 3 AQMD Board meeting, the AQMP was passed with two important amendments – greater monitoring of emissions at airports and a sunset date for the RECLAIM program.
aff spoke at the Contra Costa Interfaith Climate Action Network’s advocacy training, at the Interfaith Council of San Francisco’s monthly breakfast, and at Sleepy Hollow Presbyterian Church. Throughout April and during Faith Climate Action Week especially, CIPL member congregations hosted educational forums, Earth Day fairs, and made prayer flags for the People’s Climate March.
th – 27th CIPL staff joined colleagues from IPL affiliates across the country from 37 states for our annual conference, which was held at Bon Secours Center, a Catholic retreat center in Marriottsville, Maryland. The gathering provided a valuable opportunity for Interfaith Power & Light leaders to consider together our organization’s future as our Founder & President retires and the search begins for a new one. California IPL staff also attended a workshop hosted by Minnesota IPL focused on organizing strategies, including the importance of narratives and storytelling as a key component for transformation and action. As we do each year while in the Washington, DC area CIPL staff and advoc
ates made legislative office visits on Capitol Hill meeting with 32 House offices and both Senate offices. We urged full funding for the EPA and passage of the Nonpr
ofit Energy Efficiency Act; and urged Senators to oppose a Congressional Review Act passed by the House Majority that would undo important methane leak reduction efforts. An overall message was that this is a crucial time for the health of our planet and that actions by the Obama Administration must be strengthened. There was an increased, palpable sense of urgency in the meetings. In all meetings with Republican offices, members were urged to embrace clean energy, clean energy jobs, racial justice and to join the Bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus.
refinery on the West Coast. In the march from Banning Park to Tesoro, activists sang, chanted and held signs up to the community and motorists. At the oil refinery itself, members of indigenous communities held a healing ceremony with incense and dancers in traditional regalia. The feeling of connection and community spread palpably among the attendees and only served to strengthen resolve for the switch from dirty-burning fossil fuels to a clean energy future.
