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Tennessee Interfaith Power & Light

Embracing Earth Justice in East Tennessee on Earth Day 2021

You are invited to Earth Day 2021:  Embracing Earth Justice in East Tennessee

TIPL Earth Day EventsSponsored by Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center and Tennessee Interfaith Power and Light

A Free & Virtual Earth Day 2021 Gathering Songs / poetry / stories / networking / action

Thursday, April 22 (Streaming options below)
Program 6:00 – 7:00 pm ET
Open mic 7:00 – 8:00 pm ET (sign up during program) Share your music, poems, stories, and group information!

Zoom meeting information
When: April 22, 2021 6:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this eventSave the Date

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The gathering will also be streamed live on the Facebook page for Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center.  

For more information, contact Larry Osborne

SPEAKERS/PERFORMERS

  • Kelsey Solomon, poet
  • Maggie Longmire, singer-songwriter
  • Bill Nickle, Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center
  • Mitzi Wood-von Mizener, Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center
  • Jennifer Alldredge, Tennessee Interfaith Power & Light/Knoxville Chapter
  • Thomas Fraser, Hellbender Press
  • Osborne/Krause, contemplative folk duo

Climate Academy Southern Communities for a Green New Deal

Join us for Tennessee Interfaith Power & Light’s April Climate Academy on Saturday, April 10th at 9:00am! 

This Climate Academy will focus on the goals, values, and policy demands of the newly organized Southern Communities for a Green New Deal. Southern communities are in a unique position to advocate for climate action. Southern Communities for a Green New Deal take into account the particular climate impacts on Southern communities and how this shapes their methods of advocacy for climate action.Climate Academy Green New Deal

This climate academy will be presented by Adulin Prophete and Erin Perry, both students at Vanderbilt Divinity School.

How much does the webinar cost?

It is free to attend this webinar. You can register by clicking on the button below.

How will I join the webinar?

This webinar will be hosted on Zoom. Once you register, you’ll receive a confirmation email that gives you the option of going to the “online event page.” Click this button when you’d like to connect to the Zoom call, and it will take you to our online event page. Once you’re there, click “Connect via Zoom!” and you will be connected to the call. You can also return to the event page linked below and click the “Access the event” button under “Location.”

Register Here!

Celebrate IPL’s 20th Anniversary

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 20th 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 20th Anniversary
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

Support the Proposed Infrastructure Plan

Today President Biden announced a major infrastructure package that invests in rebuilding our economy, creating millions of jobs, and protecting our health, lands, air, water, and climate. This is a huge step forward on climate with specific investments to electrify transportation, cut dangerous carbon pollution, and build back better. But even more is needed to meet the challenge of the climate crisis.

Urge your members of Congress to support a plan that truly tackles climate change.

As people of faith and conscience, we are tasked with building a more just world—one that is in line with our moral values of protecting our most vulnerable siblings and being faithful stewards of the Earth.

Rebuilding America will take a transformational investment plan that delivers jobs, justice, and clean energy to communities across the country and curbs the carbon pollution that is driving the climate crisis. Now Congress must approve these investments to create new jobs and a just, equitable, and sustainable economy.

The devastating winter storms this year and the massive wildfires of 2020 demonstrate the urgent need to upgrade our infrastructure, including our electrical grid, power supply, and water infrastructure to withstand extreme weather events that are becoming the new normal. Furthermore, we’ve seen Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities, as well as low-wealth communities, being hit harder by the triple health, economic, and environmental crises we face. That’s why these communities must be centered in this plan.

We have an extraordinary, historic opportunity to invest in the future we want — a safer climate, a fairer, more inclusive economy, and modern clean energy infrastructure that improves our daily lives.

Together we can safeguard Creation, address the impacts of climate change on our most vulnerable neighbors, and fulfill our moral obligation to leave a habitable world for future generations. Join me and reach out to your representatives today.

Specifically, our communities need a plan that:

  • Modernizes our water infrastructure and electrical grid and vastly expands renewable energy sources
  • Electrifies transportation and expands mass transit infrastructure
  • Includes the RECLAIM Act to create jobs cleaning up abandoned coal mines and restoring the land and water polluted by them.
  • Includes the THRIVE Act, creating a national clean energy standard and investing $10 trillion over the next decade in a top-to-bottom clean energy economy, with half of that investment going to the communities hurt the most by our present dirty fossil fuel economy.

Email your members of Congress and urge them to support a pro-climate infrastructure plan based on environmental justice for all.

Interfaith Power and Light

Faithfully,

Susan Stephenson, Executive Director Interfaith Power & Light

Join us Environmental Justice ForumTuesday, 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:

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.

https://www.tennipl.org/104327-2/

Tennessee IPL

P.O. Box 26313
Knoxville, TN 37912
tninterfaithpl@gmail.com

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