To care for creation and to serve the most vulnerable among us are mandates shared by all major religions. The accelerating climate crisis and the consequences of global warming are the most urgent and dangerous symptoms of a failure by people of faith to fulfill this universal mandate.
NC Interfaith Power & Light organizes and participates in local, regional and state-wide events including workshops, presentations, film screenings, media campaigns, and religious gatherings. We emphasize the interfaith nature of our work and the theological call to care for creation; support congregation-level actions reducing energy use through efficiency, conservation, renewable energy and food choices; achieve improved spiritual and physical health, justice, peace, and sustainability for future generations when responding creatively to climate change; and the importance of sharing success stories that can lead the way for others.
The work of NCIPL has never been more urgent. It is all too easy to sink into despair as the realities of climate change play out in the news and in our lives. Through the lens of faith, hope trumps despair, and our programs offer practical and meaningful ways to begin to act in faith with hope to repair, restore and reconcile our relationship with God and God’s creation.
Visit the website: www.ncipl.org
More on the Environment
Blog
From the Blog
- DEQ Announces the Creation of a Secretary’s Environmental Justice & Equity Board (5/8/2018)
- Politics of Eating (4/24/2018)
- Sustainability Goals Delay Duke University Plans for Power Plant (4/21/2018)
- Soul of Appalachia (3/29/2018)
- Critical Issues Seminar: The Wisdom of Women (3/22/2018)
- Critical Issues Seminar: Wisdom of Women (3/13/2018)
- NC Religious Leaders’ Letter Opposing Offshore Oil Drilling Delivered to DC (3/12/2018)
- It’s Only 40 Days (2/19/2018)
- New Tax Law Will Harm Environment (1/5/2018)
- NCIPL Testifies at EPA Hearing on Clean Power Plan (12/8/2017)
- United for Puerto Rico (11/9/2017)
- Don’t let Trump Repeal and Replace our Clean Power Plan (10/10/2017)
- What should the Peoples Climate Movement do next? (9/25/2017)
- Praying in Opposition to Fracked Gas Pipelines (9/18/2017)
- Hurricanes and Interfaith Power & Light (9/14/2017)
- Rights Advocacy At Risk (8/3/2017)
- Gov. Cooper Speaks Up for Protecting NC’s Coast (7/24/2017)
- Wood Pellet Plant Would Be Environmental Injustice (7/22/2017)
- Great to Meet You at Wild Goose! (7/17/2017)
- More Wind Energy, Not Less (7/3/2017)
Events
Resources
Resources
- Energy Policy: Legislative Workshop by Fletcher Harper (5/24/2013)
- Rev. Fletcher Harper: Communicating the Values We Believe (4/15/2013)
- Preparing the Way: A Social Justice Study for Lent (free download) (2/1/2013)
- Advent Guide Focuses on Social Justice (10/11/2012)
- Rural Life Committee Supports Ban on Fracking (8/18/2011)
- Poisoned Sea, Impoverished Soul (4/30/2010)
Legislative Updates
Raleigh Report Legislative Updates
- Rights Advocacy At Risk (8/3/2017)
- GA’s Budget Proposals — Harmful not Helpful (6/12/2017)
- Raleigh Report — May 10, 2017 (5/11/2017)
- Raleigh Report — April 26, 2017 (4/27/2017)
- Tax-Cut Fever Threatens Services (4/22/2017)
- Raleigh Report — April 17, 2017 (4/17/2017)
- Raleigh Report — April 10, 2017 (4/10/2017)
- Raleigh Report — March 26, 2017 (3/26/2017)
- Raleigh Report — March 21, 2017 (3/23/2017)
- Raleigh Report — March 13, 2017 (3/14/2017)
- Raleigh Report — February 28, 2017 (3/1/2017)
- Big Stakes in High Court Pick (2/1/2017)
- Seeds of Change in a Momentous Year (12/31/2016)
- Post-Election Travesty Targets the Governor (12/15/2016)
- Budgeting that Tests our Values (6/3/2016)
- Raleigh Report: Weekly Update, May 25, 2016 (5/25/2016)
- 2015: Our Conservatives Weren’t Kidding (12/31/2015)
- ‘We stand adjourned’ – finally! (10/3/2015)
- Budget Struggle’s Bitter End (9/17/2015)
- Conflicts over Policies, Power, Pride (7/9/2015)
In the Media
In the Media
- The Liberal Protest that Would Shock the Right: Moral Monday (8/4/2013)
- Laurinburg Presbyterian Lets People Grow Food on its Property (7/9/2013)
- Grant to Strengthen Community Garden Program (7/4/2013)
- Making Peace between a Planet and Its People (12/1/2012)
- Caring for Creation: Charlotte churches plant gardens, add solar panels and join others trying to protect the planet (2/18/2012)
- Bishop Curry Interviews Dr. Kathy Shea about NC IPL (7/1/2011)
- Tarheel Footprints in Health Care (6/20/2011)
- Creation care topic of Sunday sermons (2/9/2011)
- Environmental ethic recognized (11/3/2010)
- Faithful find ways to respond to oil spill (6/17/2010)
- Don’t ever let it happen here (5/28/2010)
Sermons
Sermons
- Living on an Ark (10/3/2010)
- Shameless Love (6/13/2010)
- Being a Creature Means You Eat (10/11/2009)
- Religion and Ecology (6/7/2009)
- To Savor and To Save (4/19/2009)
Issue Statements
Issue Statements
- Rural Life Committee Supports Ban on Fracking (8/18/2011)
- Statement on Annual Utility Rate Hikes without NC Utility Commission Review (3/1/2011)
- A Policy Statement on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining (12/1/2009)
- Global Climate Change As a Religious Issue (12/4/2007)
- Hog Lagoons (11/9/2000)
- Electric Utility Restructuring (10/28/1998)