Wednesday, April 7th at 7pm CT / 8pm ET, people of faith from across the country will gather online to celebrate 20 years of moral action on climate change.
I hope you’ll join me, The Rev. Sally Bingham, and Rev. Dr. Gerald Durley in celebrating IPL’s 20^th Anniversary. We’ll feature musicians, stories from IPL state affiliate leaders, and a special message from The Most Rev. Michael Curry, Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
Click here to register.
Interfaith Power & Light would not exist without the generosity, dedication, and passion of people like you. This evening will be a celebration of the movement you helped to create and continue to sustain today.
Please register today and join the celebration.

Blessings,
Rev. Susan Hendershot, President

Join us Tuesday, March 30 at 4pm ET for the #ClimateChangemakers Environmental Justice Forum: Community Resilience in a Changing Climate. RSVP today to hear from speakers working to bring awareness to the environmental injustice cause, explain the issues communities who experience the most devastating impacts of climate change face, and identify the policy and programmatic priorities for addressing long-standing injustices.

The forum will be moderated by Derrick Z. Jackson, Union of Concerned Scientists’ Fellow.

Forum speakers include:

• Queen Quet, Gullah-Geechee Island Nation
• Naeema Muhammad, North Carolina Environmental Justice Network
• Anthony Rogers-Wright, Climate Justice Alliance

Show your solidarity and take climate action:

1. RSVP to the forum.
2. Sign the Petition to take action.
3. Spread the word, and share the #ClimateChangemaker Environmental Justice Forum: Community Resilience in a Changing Climate Toolkit with your networks.
4. Amplify the forum on your social channels  (social guidance and graphics in the toolkit).
5. Email your supporters and listservs to build the audience (sample email in the toolkit).
6. Follow and amplify #ClimateChangemakers on social media to build momentum.

If you have a question about the forum, please reach out to Elise Tolbert and Kiara Richardson.

Tennessee General Assembly is poised to take a significant positive step toward clean energy.  Here’s how you can help.

Thanks to the strong leadership of sponsor Rep. Bob Freeman (Nashville), the House will be voting soon on HB667 dealing with clean energy and resilience. The bill has passed committees with strong support and will be voted on by the entire House soon.

This bill authorizes local governments to establish and adopt Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy and storm Resiliency (C-PACER) programs that ensure that free and willing owners of agricultural, commercial, industrial, and multifamily residential properties will be able to obtain low-cost, long-term financing for qualifying improvements. This technical term, “commercial property assessed clean energy,” means that commercial property owners will be able to more easily pay for the upfront costs associated with energy efficiency and other renewable energy improvements.
This bill is only a step, but it is an important step, toward clean and renewable energy!

Please contact your House member and others (if you happen to know them) and urge them to vote YES on HB667!

Find your state representative!

Read More About C-PACER Programs

Read More About the Bill: HB667

Battlefield Farms and Keep Knoxville Beautiful hosted a work day Friday, February 19, 2021, at the Boyds Bridge Pike garden in Knoxville.

Pastor Chris Battle, the founder of Battlefield Farms, had a fair-sized list of tasks for the enthusiastic workers.

Alanna McKissack, Executive Director of Keep Knoxville Beautiful, did a great job recruiting vans full of University of Tennessee students and others (including Courtney Shea of the Knoxville Area Chapter of Tennessee Interfaith Power and Light) to work on fences, move mulch and soil, and pick-up litter.

We powered through spreading mulch and adding soil to the raised beds (although we did some damage to Pastor Battle’s potato buckets). The back fence was laid out and erected, bags of litter picked up from the street area.  Tennessee Interfaith Power and Light helped with the purchase of this property and we hope that we can continue to support Battlefield Farm and the East Side Farmers’ Market in the upcoming year.