October Climate Academy: Climate Crisis and Response, the IPCC Report and COP 26
Saturday, October 23, 10 am ET via ZOOM

Join us for Tennessee Interfaith Power & Light’s October Climate Academy on Saturday, October 23 at 10:00am ET!
This Climate Academy will focus on what the new IPCC Report tells us about the urgency of the climate crisis. It will also focus on the potential worldwide response at COP 26 – the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.

This climate academy will be presented by Daniel Joranko, Ph.D, Statewide Coordinator of Tennessee Interfaith Power and Light.

 

How much does this webinar cost?

It is free to attend the webinar. Register by clicking the link below.

How will I join the webinar?

This webinar will be hosted on ZOOM. Once you register, you’ll receive a confirmation email that provides you with a ZOOM link. This ZOOM link will be emailed again to you on the morning of the presentation.

 

Register Here!

National Interfaith Power and Light Organizing Director, Bill Bradlee, will talk with us on Interfaith Power & Light’s programming and federal policy.

 

Monday, September 27
6:30 pm CT (7:30 pm ET)
via Zoom

When you register you will receive a zoom link via email the day of the event.

We are inviting people statewide to this talk hosted by the Nashville Chapter of Tennessee Interfaith Power and Light.

At the conclusion of the talk Nashville participants will be invited to stay on the Zoom call for concluding business items.

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Bill Bradlee
National Organizing Director and Affiliate Liaison

Bill supports all of IPL’s state affiliates and federal advocacy campaigns as national organizing director. Previously, he served as The Regeneration Project’s managing director from July 2004 until March 2007. Bill has two decades of experience in the nonprofit world. In 2007, he and a climate scientist spent much of the year bicycling across the U.S. giving talks and doing media outreach around global warming. Bill previously worked for The League of Conservation Voters and The Union of Concerned Scientists. He completed his Master of Environmental Studies degree at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

The Tennessee Interfaith Power and Light’s steering committee offers this statement in support of indigenous peoples and the use of land:

We acknowledge that Europeans were not the first stewards of the land called ‘Tanasi’ by Cherokee natives. Indigenous Peoples have lived in what is now named ‘Tennessee’ since 10,000 BCE.  Archeological evidence indicates that Paleo-Indians occupied and thrived in the Central Basin along the Cumberland River and the western valley of the Tennessee River. Later communities of Indigenous Peoples were formed by Creek, Yuchi, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Shawnee, and Seneca tribes.

We acknowledge the brutal, horrendous, immoral acts perpetrated by white settlers, acts intended to steal the land, food sources, and cultures of Indigenous Peoples. These acts included intentionally breaking treaties, forcing Indigenous Peoples to leave their homelands and live segregated on reservations (often the least desirable land), and requiring that Indigenous children attend white schools, speak English, and disengage from native cultural and religious events.

We acknowledge that European concepts of land ownership, so different from the stewardship ideas of Indigenous Peoples, have greatly contributed to the current dangerous and destructive effects of global warming and resulting climate change.

View the Interfaith Power & Light summer film, Other Side of the Hill starting July 10!

Register here to view it at home or screen it for your congregation and buy the kit.

OTHER SIDE OF THE HILL explores the impacts of a changing climate as seen through the eyes of local leaders on the ground.  This is a beautiful story of light, hope, and progress, set in a rural area devastated by the collapse of its lumber industry. The film amplifies the voices of rural communities often left unheard. In a time of unprecedented cultural divide between rural and urban communities, this film finds common ground in an urgency to address a changing landscape.

The film will be available for free online viewing July 10 – 25.

Purchase the downloadable screening kit for only $9.95.

The IPL screening kit for the Other Side of the Hill IPL features a pre-recorded webinar conversation with two of the film’s rural activists as we discover deep intrinsic values that cross the political spectrum: family, connection to the land, stewardship, and love of place. By focusing on what brings us together rather than what divides us, we can all come together to ensure a healthy, thriving planet. This webinar conversation is only available through the kit.

The value-packed kit also includes general and faith-based questions for discussion, promotional materials, and an evergreen Climate Conversation Guide on talking about climate change with people across the religious or political spectrum. Use this kit to spark meaningful conversation at your film screening discussions.

This new film can help us bridge divides to create a beautiful future for our children and grandchildren.

The Nashville Chapter’s May meeting featured a presentation by the Rev. Ann Cover – “Gardens: Rethinking Land Use at our Houses of Worship.” A garden can benefit the environment, a congregation, and its community. Using the experiences of the garden at South End United Methodist Church, we will examine these benefits and the work involved in sustaining gardens. Click on the photo above and use the passcode: 9p=+RpXA