Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA)

Today we joined Rev. Dell Hinton and partners from the Clean Heat Coalition to call on @govwesmoore.bsky.social to finalize strong Clean Heat Rules. We all deserve to breathe clean air at home, and it’s time to replace polluting fuel-burning furnaces w/efficient heat pumps. marylandcleanheat.org

Workshops: Sacred Grounds Growing Joy Please register below to participate in the Fall 2025 In-Person Workshops for Sacred Grounds Growing Joy. Please bring another member of your congregation with you, if possible, and feel free to invit...

Join us for one of these free workshops:

- This Saturday, October 11th, 1-5 pm in Washington, DC
- Saturday, November 1st, 1-5 pm in Prince George’s County

Register: bit.ly/GrowingJoyWorkshops

(Online option available for both; in-person attendance includes tour and free native plants!)

Is your congregation in Prince George’s or Montgomery counties or DC? If yes, join an upcoming workshop to enroll your congregation in our Sacred Grounds “Growing Joy” program through @nationalwildlife.bsky.social!

Register: bit.ly/GrowingJoyWorkshops

As BGE and Washington Gas share their WARMTH Act pilot projects with the Maryland Public Service Commission today, Action in Montgomery/Maryland Just Power Alliance and IPL-DMV congregations are standing with our neighbors at Northwest Park Apartments. We’re PUMPED for neighborhood geothermal in MD!

Kitchen stoves shouldn't poison us. But they do. Joelle Novey explains why—and how joy, chocolate fondue, and Flintstones cosplay fuel the fight. Full ep: open.spotify.com/episode/2mF8...
@ipldmv.bsky.social

This past Sunday, we encouraged folks at IFCMW’s Interfaith Unity Walk to make #SacredHaste for clean energy projects in their homes and congregations. Join them by visiting ipldmv.org/now! What will you do to make Sacred Haste?

Joelle Novey’s team tested gas leaks, measured pollutants, and then showed up dressed as the Flintstones to prove their point: gas is prehistoric. Bubble & Squeak has the story. Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/2mF8...
@joellenovey.bsky.social @ipldmv.bsky.social

Green Budget Day of Action Join us for the DC Green Budget Day of Action on June 16th! Organizations and residents from across the District are gathering at 8am on June 16th at the John A Wilson building, calling on the DC Cou...

Join us at 8am for a rally and press conference, and then stay for a day of action all over the WIlson building. WEAR GREEN, and come for what you can! We have to stop this pattern of cutting environmental and climate programs whenever our local budget is tight.

Register: bit.ly/gbda-ipl

Join residents and advocates from across the District at the Green Budget Day of Action on Monday June 16th, 8am. We’re gathering at the Wilson building to call on the DC Council and Mayor Bowser: Don’t defund our communities and our climate in our local DC budget.

Register: bit.ly/gbda-ipl

"What is my prediction for the end of the world?" Rev. Laura Martin asks at the Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions (FACS) awards event. "I believe the world has already ended ... and begun again, and will over and over."

Coming together to build community, taking action on climate, and joyfully creating resilience is the work we are called to do, especially in times such as these, and we are called to do it together.

We are so grateful to all of you in faith communities across our region who have embraced Earth Month as an opportunity to keep singing, praying, planting, and hoping.

Thanks to the hard work and generous spirit of our green leaders, green teams, clergy, friends, and supporters, IPL-DMV was able to host, participate in, or attend over thirty (!) Earth Month events, gatherings, and services in diverse communities all throughout the DMV.

On Earth Day, our Director Joelle closed a multi-faith gathering on Capitol Hill with this song by Sarina Partridge: 
"But don't you hear them too, the voices cutting through the despair saying: 'We need you there, in the belly of the beast, singing, singing, singing–  through times such as these."

Join us tonight at 7pm for IPL-DMV’s first-ever Climate Bible Study! Interested in learning what the Christian Bible says about climate change? Or do you seek a robust discussion about Christian climate theology? Register for Zoom Link: bit.ly/iplbiblestudy

Woohoo, Rachel Mandelbaum and Joelle Novey from Dayenu! 💙 💚

We loved talking climate feelings and climate action with the @wrj1913.bsky.social Social Action conference, alongside @joindayenu.bsky.social!

"As the frost melts and brave buds emerge from the soil, we wonder—what’s been your sunlight, your steady root, your sprout of courage? 🌿✨ Tell us, how are you finding strength and courage in these early days of spring?"

#hope #courage #spring #resilience #courage #community

1. Climate disasters are getting bigger and more devastating, leveling towns & cities: We need massive federal operations to support recovery.
2. The places most exposed to disasters, & most fragile due to rickety infrastructure, struggle to recover. We need federal operations.

Our actions for the world are prayers: implicitly relevant, meaningful, and impermanent.

#ecodharma #mindfulness #activism

Senator Brian Feldman looks out from podium over a crowd of several hundred people in a church sanctuary.

Tonight, Senator Brian Feldman's committee meets to consider whether Md needs *more* gas-burning 🔥 power plants, with *less* recourse for communities when these polluters come into our neighborhoods. 🤯
All day, our District 15 congregations are calling to say: NO! (📸
@davidchoy.bsky.social) #mdga25

Maryland legislature must act to lower energy bills | GUEST COMMENTARY It’s time for the General Assembly to step in to help Maryland families struggling under the weight of rising utility bills, writes Susan Stevens Miller.

Legislators in Maryland can act in #mdga25 to lower energy bills, hold utilities accountable 7 build a fair, sustainable energy future by passing:
✅ Abundant Affordable Clean Energy (AACE) Act
✅ The Ratepayer Freedom Act,
✅ The Ratepayer Protection Act
www.baltimoresun.com/2025/03/15/m...

EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History | US EPA EPA News Release: EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History

To state the ridiculously obvious:

As our one and only home, the Earth requires our protection.

www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

#epa #eparollback #environmentalprotection

For all that has breath, faith communities across Maryland are calling on our legislators to: * Vote YES on Better Buildings Act (HB 973/SB 804) * Vote NO new gas-burning power plants in Md (HB 1035/SB 937) * Vote YES on CHERISH Our Communities Act (HB 1484/SB 978)

"You know what I *don’t* need our state elected leaders to do?
To 🔥 light 🔥 anything 🔥else 🔥on 🔥fire.
There is no good reason to build a gas-burning power plant or a gas-burning building in anyone's neighborhood in Maryland ever again." -- @joellenovey.bsky.social
Speak out with us: bit.ly/3Ff7rRm

From our Director Joelle: "Burning fossil fuels has set our planet on fire. Some days our democracy seems to also be on fire. We’re scrambling to protect neighbors from harm. I'm looking to #mdga25 legislators to protect us fiercely and to transition to clean energy locally ...

Always inspiring to hear from young people who are now addressing the Taking Nature Black Conference.

Pictured is Kahri Brown, a 2024 graduate of Anacostia High School and now college student in North Carolina. She said: "I still have more people to help and much more to achieve."

I'm grateful for spaces like this that really allow us to connect with one another and ground ourselves in hope and know there is good justice work going on
-Sidra Siddiqui, Community Organizer at the Washington Interfaith Network (WIN)

She is currently speaking at the #TakingNatureBlack Conference

Why detecting methane is difficult but crucial work From handheld to space-based, new methane detectors are making it easier to track the greenhouse gas.

Check out this article about or coalition! "At the community level, it's been powerful for residents to take the air pollution readings themselves and use these to counter misinformation. Now that we know better, we can do better," Joelle Novey of @ipldmv.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...

🌙 As the crescent moon ushers in #Ramadan, remember the beauty of divine order and renewal. May this sacred month inspire all who celebrate to reflect, seek peace, and find ways to better care for Creation. #RamadanMubarak #ramadan2025

Save NOAA Stop DOGE
NOAA HQ, 1315 East-West Hwy, Silver Spring, MD 20910
On Monday, March 3rd at 10am Congressional leaders and advocates will gather at NOAA HQ in Silver Spring, MD (right at the Silver Spring Metro stop) to tell Trump and Musk to keep their hands off of NOAA.