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Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light is a non-profit initiative offering Massachusetts congregations of every religious tradition a comprehensive means of reducing energy consumption, lowering operating costs, and promoting clean, renewable energy in houses of worship and related buildings. In short, we are a mutual ministry working with the community of faith toward environmental justice and care of creation.
APRIL EVENTS
Renewal is the first feature-length documentary to capture the breadth and vitality of America's religious-environmental movement. The 90-minute film tells 8 inspirational stories including how Interfaith Power and Light brings different faiths together to mount a religious response to global warming. Renewal is being shown at local churches and at the Museum of Fine Arts. For a schedule of time and location of the Renewal showings, click here. Cambridge is Green trail-blazing! You can see MIP&L's contribution (and the wonderful new boiler room at St. James, Cambridge) on the clip from the recently-aired PBS NOW program. Click here to see the clip. GOING GREEN FOR LENT ... What will you give up for Lent? Read a Boston Globe article on green Lent practices, with energy-saving ideas. By Beth Daley. A year after the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts passed a comprehensive resolution calling on its 185 parishes to develop energy conservation measures, how are they doing? Read the MIP&L Stewardship Assessment here. A Home Energy Audit is one of your first steps in assessing your home energy consumption. MIP&L's intrepid intern Andrew Siliski completed a Home Energy Audit through MassSave for his family's 100-year-old home - and learned a LOT about his home energy usage/waste! Check out his story here.
Click the shower head to read/download our latest Everyday Environmental Stewardship (EES) brief on Showering & and then check out our new Shower Cost Calculator worksheet/template!
Houses of worship leave a notable environmental imprint. Per capita, per hour of use, they're often among the biggest wasters of energy, and the United States has more houses of worship than any other country! Many congregations recognize the moral imperative for stewardship, but don't always stand on the moral "high ground" when it comes to actual energy usage. We need to become better stewards and, in the process, encourage and inspire our congregants to do better at home, school, and work. Membership in MIP&L offers a concrete way to put faith into action. Together, we will work toward environmental justice and care of creation. We will be a powerful religious response to global warming and environmental degradation! If we don't, who will? |
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