Faith & Climate Resilience Summit & National Day of Action
Faith & Climate Resilience Summit & National Day of Action
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By chris
by chris
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By chris
by chris
After graduating from North Carolina State University and Harvard Law School, I became a public defender in Florida and have continued in the field of public defense at a state agency. My work with poor people, especially those of color, has shown me how societal and policy decisions can and often do have an adverse impact on them. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in regard to the environment. Disadvantaged folks live downhill, downstream, and downwind in areas vulnerable to pollution and the consequences of rising temperatures. My concern for these communities, as well as our earth in general, has led me to take action.
Having grown up in Southeastern North Carolina, I am acutely aware of how bioemissions can make an area unlivable. From my time growing up and smelling the stench of a nearby pulp paper mill to holding my breath as I drive past an industrial hog facility on my way to and from my home town, I have a small idea of what it must be like to endure such burdens on a day-to-day basis. I believe that education, empathy, and a commitment to equity are key to bringing justice to the citizens of these communities and that change is possible if we all work together. My first step in that process will be to coordinate a webinar series for fall 2021 on the proposal to produce biogas from hog waste, with the goal of promoting understanding of the issue, the community’s concerns about it, possible solutions to it, and how people of faith can assist the community in its advocacy for the health and happiness of its citizens.
Contact Susan: sebrks@bellsouth.net.
Susan Brooks is excited to begin working with NCIPL as she feels a calling to be more involved in environmental, particularly environmental justice, issues. Susan has served at the North Carolina Office of Indigent Defense Services (IDS) in various capacities since 2003. Susan graduated summa cum laude from North Carolina State University in 1990 with a B.A. in English and a minor in Political Science. Upon graduation from Harvard Law School in 1994, Susan worked for the public defender office in Jacksonville, Florida and then at a couple of private civil practice law firms in North Carolina before joining IDS, where she seeks to assure that attorneys appointed to represent poor people in the state have the resources, training, and support they need to best serve their clients. Susan is active at Benson Memorial United Methodist Church in Raleigh, where she serves as lay leader and vice-chair of the Church & Society Committee, promoting awareness and education within the congregation and the community on issues such as climate change, ecology, racism, homophobia, poverty, and other societal concerns. Susan lives with a handsome tabby cat named Gadget.
By chris
by chris
Faith community members took to the streets of North Carolina in Raleigh and Greensboro in order to walk as an interfaith representation of people who support legislation on Congressional bold, climate justice & jobs.
We delivered the Faith Leaders National Letter to Congress endorsed along with 3600 other organizations around the country.
This NC Climate Action Campaign event was organized by NC Interfaith Power & Light (NCIPL) a campaign of the Eco-Justice Connection work of the NC Council of Churches – in partnership with the Interfaith Creation Care of the Triangle (ICCT).
Photos via @NCIPL at the Offices of Rep. Deborah Ross & Rep. Kathy Manning on 7.21.21 ~>
By chris
by chris
This fall, NCIPL leaders drafted a Resolution to Duke Energy asking that they set a carbon dioxide emissions reduction goal for the year 2030. Setting this reduction goal in this time frame is essential to alleviating and preventing the worst impacts of global climate change, and is the recommendation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
As people of faith and conscience, we know that we must reduce emissions now in order to care for this planet and each other. We are therefore calling on corporate leaders and communities, like Duke Energy, to make the necessary emissions reductions for the good of our world. Join us. Please endorse our resolution here.
By chris
by chris
This fall, NCIPL leaders drafted a Resolution to Duke Energy asking that they set a carbon dioxide emissions reduction goal for the year 2030. Setting this reduction goal in this time frame is essential to alleviating and preventing the worst impacts of global climate change, and is the recommendation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
As people of faith and conscience, we know that we must reduce emissions now in order to care for this planet and each other. We are therefore calling on corporate leaders and communities, like Duke Energy, to make the necessary emissions reductions for the good of our world. Join us. Please endorse our resolution here.
By chris
by chris
NC Interfaith Power & Light (NCIPL) is actively working to become an anti-racist program of the NC Council of Churches. We believe that relationships must be centered in justice and equity within the human family, as well as with all of the natural world. We must strive together toward this sacred goal.
We bear this responsibility with integrity, incorporating into all our campaigns that we do what is right, even when the path is not obvious or easy. As advocates for climate justice, we commit to working against systemic racism and anti-Blackness; ending both the historic disenfranchisement of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, and racially-rooted economic and health disparities; and dismantling structures of racial and economic marginalization and colonialism.
Our diverse religious and spiritual traditions call us to work for systemic change and a more just society that embraces differences based on religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, and physical ability. NCIPL will address this with specific, often-updated commitments regarding internal processes, policy positions, diversity efforts, training, funding mechanisms, and more.
Together we will work to reverse paradigms of oppression of humans and the natural world as we build a thriving, inclusive, and equitable future on behalf of all who inhabit this good Earth.
We commit to providing practical resources, that can be shared across faiths, directly relating how faith can, and should, affect climate and environmental justice action, and how to build a culture that is both spiritually and physically resilient, so that even as the Earth changes, communities of faith are able to thrive and help others.
Eco-Justice Connection
27 Horne St.
Raleigh, NC 27607
(919) 828-6501
info@ncchurches.org
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