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New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light
April 2014 E-Notes

Blessings this amazing April with creation blossoming forth as we hold all that we love knowing the challenges before us stated in the recent

So much is happening during April-Earth Month, and actually the entire spring. Here is a picture of our wonderful women artists with one of Judith Roderick's amazing silk paintings of cranes. We Are the Eighth Day event was truly inspiring March 23 and OXFAM was wonderful to partner with.  A recording of the presentations can be found at www.nm-ipl.org/we-are-the-eighth-day/

A great group of faith leaders have been meeting for months to plan the Wild GRACE camp/retreat for young people (7-12) with their parents, guardians, grandparents or adult mentors. It will be an awesome gathering June 5-8...all we need now is YOU!  See more info below.

I had the opportunity as one of the OXFAM sister ambassadors on the planet to hear stories of struggle and success from women in Central America and Africa as we celebrated International Women's Day, while bringing light to climate change and lobbying on Capitol Hill. As people of faith, are voices are needed and listened to as we address the moral and ethical implications of climate change. Here one of our African sisters is honored for her work.  

There is so much to celebrate and so much to do. We are so grateful for walking this journey of loving Earth and neighbor together as we celebrate Earth Day, April 22.

Peace and grace,
Joan Brown,osf
Executive Director
Around New Mexico
Water Ethics Workshop
Sat., April 12, 1:30-7 pm
Los Vecinos Community Center
478 1/2 Old Hwy. 66, Tijeras
Contact nancyeval@gmail.com or (505)934-0680 by Wednesday, April 9!!!  Flyer for details.
 
Celebrate Earth Day

Sharing Prayers and Stories of Rio Grande 

Tuesday, April 22, 6:30 pm

Rio Grande, ABQ (at Campbell Street dead end street entrance)

Everyone young and old is

welcome, bring a chair or blanket

to sit upon, if you wish.

  

Worship In the Wilderness Hikes

Sunday, April 20  6:00 am

Saturday, May 10

8:00 am       North 10K Trail

 

Springing Green  Earth Day 

April 27th (also programs 

May 4, 11 &18)

First Presbyterian Church

208 Grant Ave, SF

Contact Mary Ann Lundy for details.

 

Thinking Like a Watershed:

Rural Perspectives: Farmers & Ranchers

April 24th at KIMO Theatre, 421 Central NW, ABQ

Rural Perspectives: Farmers & Ranchers Panelists Sid Goodloe, Julia Stafford, Steve Harris will present perspectives of traditional ranchers and the role of Holistic Range Management. They will introduce the growing likelihood of scarcity in both surface- and ground-water and scarcity due to global warming, climate instability, drought, and over-extraction as well as restoration ecology. 

 
National Speakers Available during May

Corresponding to Great Climate March in NM

Rev. Michael Dowd and Scientist Connie Barlow still have spaces to speak at faith communities in NM during May. Check out schedule at  www.nm-ipl.org on our calendar.  To contact them: 

Rev. Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow
Connie@TheGreatStory.org   cell: 425-760-9941
 

 Wild GRACE Retreat

June 5-8, 2014
Ghost Ranch, NM
Young People 7-12 with adult mentors, parents, grandparents, guardians

Sign up soon!!! $150 for young person and $175 for adult, includes everything except transportation to and from.  (Some scholarship money available for those in need.)
For more info.
Cool Congregations: Green Ideas

New Report Finds Energy Efficiency  
is America's Cheapest Energy Resource
Energy Efficiency Costs Utilities 2 to 3 Times Less Than Traditional Power Sources; Average of 2.8 Cents per Kilowatt Hour

Washington, D.C. (March 26, 2014): According to a

 new report released  by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), energy efficiency is the cheapest method of providing Americans with electricity. Energy efficiency programs aimed at reducing energy waste cost utilities only about three cents per kilowatt hour, while generating the same amount of electricity from sources such as fossil fuels can cost two to three times more.



PNM just rolled out a new home energy audit and savings program. Check it out at PNM.com


Contact NMIPL if you want to save creation and your budget with energy upgrades, solar, etc. We have Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary solar panels information that might assist and can help you come up with a plan. NMIPL also has $3,000 available for no-interest revolving loan to begin now..
 
Free EPA online Energy Portfolio Manager Tool 

Portfolio Manager tool with which voluntary program partners can generate EPA's 1 -100 ENERGY STAR score. Portfolio Manager includes a module designed especially for worship facilities. The Portfolio Manager  is explained via recorded webinars, fact sheets, slides and FAQ downloads at www.energystar.gov/pmupgrade
Action Alerts
 

 NMIPL just signed up 50 faith leaders on letters to our Senators and President Obama to declare two new wilderness areas in New Mexico.   Check it out under Advocacy at www.nm-ipl.org.

 

NMIPL is gathering signatures on a petition to Governor Martinez and leaders in New Mexico to treat water as Sacred Trust.  Contact us to see a copy, sign it and pass along to others to sign.

 

 
Resources and News

NMIPL offers various educational programs to faith communities including Water As A Sacred Trust. Contact joan@nm-ipl.org.

Years of Living Dangerously, excellent series on climate change for free - a week before it

 

airs on cable TV on Sunday, April 13th.

 

 http://understory.ran.org/2014/04/07/watch-and-share-years-of-living-dangerously/ 

 


Inviting Muslim communities to give a green "khutbah" (sermon) at Friday services on April 18th 

 "Earth As Our Home" booklet from the Catholic Sisters for a Healthy Earth - the coalition of Sisters from Eastern Iowa.  Booklet can be downloaded:  www.ClintonFranciscans.com/earth.html 



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