Join Tennessee Interfaith Power and Light in Faith Climate Action Week – April 22 to May 1.
Faith Climate Action Week is ten days in April during Earth Month when IPL congregations focus on how we can all take action to protect our climate. The 2022 theme is
Sacred Trust: Our Children’s Right to a Livable Future.
We will examine our responsibility to safeguard our Earth for future generations, and how our faiths call us to respond with bold and just solutions to climate change.
Our children and grandchildren will bear the brunt of climate change, and their voices have an outsized impact in the halls of power when they speak about how climate change affects their future. TIPL invites you to lean into this sobering and hopeful paradox and work alongside the youth in your congregation or community to speak up for their rights to a stable climate. Make it a focus of your Earth Day worship services and be part of the solution with suggested actions.
There are suggestions and resources for how to get engaged in supporting local climate justice action, and a call for art created by youth and children that envisions a positive future for our Earth through the #ImagineIPL campaign. Additionally, you will find faith-based discussion materials, suggested short films, and a Youth and Children Blessing ceremony.
Faith Climate Action Week Events
- Nationwide Climate Prayer April 22, noon – 12:30 pm ET
Charles Krutch Park Gay Street Lawn | 315 Clinch Ave Knoxville, TN 37902
For more info: courtshea@aol.com - Climate Change and Children’s Health Webinar April 26, 1:00 – 2:00 pm CT
The two speakers will be Carol Ziegler, a Professor at Vanderbilt School of Nursing, and Vanessa Lynch, a field organizer for Moms Clean Air Force in western Pennsylvania. Carol is passionate about addressing climate change professionally, as a committed advocate for environmental justice, and as a mother. She will share about some of the many health impacts of climate change on children. Vanessa also cares deeply about the danger of climate change and has fought fracking in her community emphasizing its harm to children, including her own. The focus of her presentation will be on advocacy opportunities. Vanessa shares that “Moms Clean Air Force is a community of over one million moms and dads united against air pollution — including the urgent crisis of our changing climate — to equitably protect our children’s health.” - Watch these presentations on Climate Change and Children’s Health (passcode: 1+L!LGMr)
For more info: NashvilleCreationCare@gmail.com - Kickstand Bicycling Celebration April 30, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET
Sam E. Hill Primary School | 1725 Delaware Ave Knoxville, TN 37921
For more info: kickstandknoxville@gmail.com - Interfaith Earth Care Celebration April 30, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm CT
Downtown Commons | 215 Legion St Clarksville, TN 37040
For more info: NashvilleCreationCare@gmail.com - Interfaith Earth Care Celebration May 1, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm CT
St. Henry Catholic Church | 6401 Harding Pike Nashville, TN 37206
