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People of Faith Petition to Biden

February 22, 2022 By chris

Climate can’t wait. Every day of inaction costs us dearly. Many of our communities have experienced the severe impacts of climate change: wildfires, superstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and increasingly intense […]

People of Faith Petition to Biden

February 22, 2022 by chris

Climate can’t wait. Every day of inaction costs us dearly. Many of our communities have experienced the severe impacts of climate change: wildfires, superstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and increasingly intense weather phenomena that cause damage, injury, and loss of life. We are running out of time to avoid even more serious consequences. 

Add your name to our petition to President Biden calling on him to keep his promise to take meaningful action on climate, justice, and clean energy.

The Build Back Better Act includes the most significant climate and clean energy investments ever- and it will create jobs and protect clean air and clean water for all. 

We need to pass the most comprehensive version of the Build Back Better Act possible, including the $550 billion in investments that will deliver on climate, justice, jobs, and clean energy. 

Tell President Biden he must do all he can to convince the Senate to swiftly approve the Build Back Better Act that will protect our health, cut dangerous pollution, advance environmental justice, reduce energy costs for families, and create good-paying clean energy jobs.   

Our climate, our communities, and our faith compel us to call for bold and just action. We have a moral responsibility as a nation, and a sacred task as people of faith, to care for our climate and to leave a safe and thriving world for future generations. 

Thank you for helping encourage bold climate action for our neighbors and our common home.

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“Breathe Again: Health Air is Health Care” Trainings

February 8, 2022 By chris

Did you know that more than 40% of the U.S. is breathing dirty air and that in 46 states, communities of color are exposed to higher levels of dangerous air […]

“Breathe Again: Health Air is Health Care” Trainings

February 8, 2022 by chris

Did you know that more than 40% of the U.S. is breathing dirty air and that in 46 states, communities of color are exposed to higher levels of dangerous air pollution than white communities? We have the power to take action!

Register now and join us for a two day training event, in conjunction with our US Climate Action Network grant partners.

2-day Session: Thursday & Friday, Feb 17 & 18, 12:00 (Noon) – 1:30 PM (ET)

We will begin with a “Train the Trainer” session to learn more about the issues surrounding air pollution, the climate crisis, and the public health impact. Connect with other people working on air pollution in your state and learn how to train others on these issues. Friday’s Day of Action will provide an opportunity to join together in collective action as we call our elected officials and ask them to make healthier air a reality!

ZOOM REGISTRATION: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwscOyprzkuHdSIhIHT_uzt71doTV1x7kTJ

 

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Launching a year of climate justice and resilience.

January 5, 2022 By chris

Register Here We need a climate revival! After another year of record-breaking climate disasters, environmental injustices are degrading our communities, God’s Creation, and democracy. This year, we’re changing the script. […]

Launching a year of climate justice and resilience.

January 5, 2022 by chris

Register Here

We need a climate revival!

After another year of record-breaking climate disasters, environmental injustices are degrading our communities, God’s Creation, and democracy. This year, we’re changing the script. Let’s move from degradation to resilience, from brokenness to restoration, from death to revival!

Join us virtually on January 20, 2022 to launch a year of “Resilient Creation & Restored Communities: Voting for Climate Justice in 2022”!

Featured Speakers Include:

  • Karenna Gore, founder and executive director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York
  • Dr. Randy Woodley, Distinguished Professor of Faith & Culture, Portland Seminary. Cherokee descendant. Public theologian and co-sustainer at Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice and Eloheh Farm
  • Rev. Emmanuel Duncan, Senior Pastor of Gethsemane Baptist Church in Greenville and the Co-Chair of the Greenville Interfaith Justice Ministry
  • Rev. Lennox Yearwood, President & CEO of Hip Hop Caucus, minister, and community activist
  • Rev. Adam Taylor, president of Sojourners and author of A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community

At this event, we will LEARN what’s at stake for our communities and climate in 2022, COMMIT to a year of engagement for resilience and restoration, and PRAY for a revival of climate justice.

Register Here!


Event hosted by the Southeast Faith Leaders Network (SFLN) with the support of the U.S. Climate Action Network.

SFLN Anchor Organizations include:

Creation Justice Ministries
Georgia Interfaith Power & Light
South Carolina Interfaith Power & Light
Alabama Interfaith Power & Light / The People’s Justice Council
North Carolina Interfaith Power & Light / North Carolina Council of Churches

Filed Under: Blog, Uncategorized

“Net-Zero” is a Dangerous Distraction

October 27, 2021 By chris

NC Interfaith Power & Light and NC Council of Churches are signatories. Read Letter Here More Than 350 Groups Condemn Corporate Net-Zero Pledges as a Dangerous, Unjust Distraction WASHINGTON 10/27/21 — […]

“Net-Zero” is a Dangerous Distraction

October 27, 2021 by chris

NC Interfaith Power & Light and NC Council of Churches are signatories.
Read Letter Here


More Than 350 Groups Condemn Corporate Net-Zero Pledges as a Dangerous, Unjust Distraction

WASHINGTON 10/27/21 — 354 groups released a statement today calling “net-zero” emission pledges by corporations and governments a dangerous distraction from real climate action. This comes as the House Oversight and Reform Committee holds a hearing to ”examine the role of the fossil fuel industry in spreading climate disinformation and heating the planet.” 

CEOs and presidents from Exxon Mobil, BP America, Chevron, Shell Oil, the American Petroleum Institute and U.S. Chamber of Commerce will be testifying. Shell and BP have announced “ambitions” to be net-zero by 2050 and Chevron has announced a similar “aspiration.”

The hearing comes just days before COP 26, the United Nations’ climate negotiations taking place in Glasgow, Scotland, which many have dubbed the “net-zero” COP.

In their letterto government policymakers — including those from Biden Administration, Congress, and state and local governments — the groups describe these net-zero pledges as ineffective, unjust greenwashing drastically out of touch with the worsening climate crisis.

“Net zero targets are just the latest deception by polluting corporations, the U.S., and other governments to extricate themselves from undertaking the radical greenhouse gas emission reductions that science and justice require,” said Karen Orenstein, Director of the Climate & Energy Justice Program at Friends of the Earth U.S. ”But neither the atmosphere nor the people facing fires, floods, and other climate impacts are fooled. We call on the Biden Administration and Congress to commit to absolute reductions – full stop – and to say no to the corrupted concept of net-zero.”

“Pledges to meet net-zero emissions targets are really just carbon offsets and carbon capture technologies in disguise,” said Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. “Polluters and governments continue to spin new terms to confuse and distract from the fact that they intend to continue polluting Indigenous Peoples and Mother Earth. We do not have time for the net-zero false solution targets.”

“Net zero pledges by corporate agribusiness are another false solution to the climate crisis and an empty attempt to hijack meaningful debate and accountability on reducing pollution at the point of emission,” said Jordan Treakle, National Program Coordinator for the National Family Farm Coalition. “Polluting corporations have extracted wealth from rural and marginalized communities for decades; it’s well-past time for our public institutions and political leaders to respond to the needs of the People and drastically cut emissions from these corporate entities by 2030 through absolute reductions, while facilitating a Just Transition that prioritizes the resilience of frontline communities, workers, and independent food producers.”

“Net-zero is the language of the fossil fuel industry and provides for the continuing extraction and burning of fossil fuels,” said Joe Uehlein, President of Labor Network for Sustainability. “Net-zero supplements equally dangerous carbon capture technologies that have the same goal. Over 300 scientists just wrote to President Biden urging that we get off fossil fuels right now. Net-zero is not the way to accomplish that task.”

“Mississippi, the state with the highest percentage African-American population and one of the poorest states in the nation, is home to a $7.5 billion failed carbon capture sequestration plant,” said Kathy Egland, Co-Founder of Education, Economics, Environmental, Climate and Health Organization (EEECHO). “This risky experimental debacle is located in a poor, mostly Black town and would have posed an unbearable financial burden to ratepayers. Now Mississippi’s poor, Black communities are facing deadly exposures from the proliferation of toxic wood pellet manufacturing plants for ‘bioenergy.’ The idea of ‘net-zero’ emissions encourages the growth of these false solutions. We must end these human rights injustices and invest in a viable, just energy transition that will safeguard people and the planet.”

Background: What Corporations and Governments Mean by “Net-Zero”

Filed Under: Blog, Uncategorized

Human Prayer Chain for Climate Justice

October 19, 2021 By chris

This week in North Carolina and around the world, faith communities are rising to the call from GreenFaith to pray for national and world leaders to take bold action to […]

Human Prayer Chain for Climate Justice

October 19, 2021 by chris

This week in North Carolina and around the world, faith communities are rising to the call from GreenFaith to pray for national and world leaders to take bold action to reverse climate change at the U.N. COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland in November.

On Monday, October 18 over 190 people of faith formed a socially distanced Human Prayer Chain for Climate Justice along Wade Avenue in Raleigh stretching between the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh (UUFR) and Community United Church of Christ.  After standing on the sidewalk during 5:00pm rush-hour, a multi-faith delegation of local clergy led an outdoor Prayer Vigil for Climate Justice. Click here for photos of the Raleigh event with lots of great signs and energy!

Read NC Policy Watch’s post about the event and follow events from around the world using the hashtag: #Faiths4Climate

Sponsored by Interfaith Creation Care of the Triangle and ICCT Network Faith Communities.

Filed Under: Blog, Food Pages, Uncategorized

Biogas & Communities Webinar Series

October 18, 2021 By chris

In Fall 2021, North Carolina Interfaith Power & Light (NCIPL), a program of the NC Council of Churches launched a webinar series to begin to educate faith communities about the […]

Biogas & Communities Webinar Series

October 18, 2021 by chris

In Fall 2021, North Carolina Interfaith Power & Light (NCIPL), a program of the NC Council of Churches launched a webinar series to begin to educate faith communities about the problem of hog waste biogas and to amplify local community voices on the issue. 

The series kicked off on October 12th at 6 p.m. with the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) hearing from citizens who would be affected by hog waste biogas technology and permitting.

The first webinar held on October 19th at 7 p.m. offered introductory education about the process and the problems of biogas and the impacts on communities in eastern NC. Watch via YouTube

SPEAKERS:

  • Sherri White-Williamson – Environmental Justice Community Action Network  (EJCAN)
  • Will Hendrick – North Carolina Conservation Network, Environmental Justice Advocate
  • Devon Hall – Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help (REACH)

The second webinar held on November 2nd at 7 p.m. provided activists and community leaders the opportunity to share how communities of faith can collaborate with and support them in the effort to protect their health and well-being. Watch via YouTube

SPEAKERS:

  • Blakely Hildebrand – Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), Staff Attorney
  • Donna Chavis – RedTailed Hawk Collective, Founder
  • Daisha Williams – Clean AIRE NC, Environmental Justice Manager
  • Rev. Mac Ledgerton – United Church of Christ – Ordained Minister
  • Larry Baldwin – Crystal Coast Waterkeeper
Read article written by Rev. Jimmy Melvin – Mt. Zion AME Zion Church, Pastor: Hog operations have harmed Sampson-Duplin church, but NC legislators have turned deaf ear

Please help us spread the word about this important issue that deserves our moral attention!


For more information contact NCIPL Eco-Justice Education & Advocacy Fellow
Susan Brooks: sebrks@bellsouth.net

Filed Under: Blog, Uncategorized

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