COP27

By Susannah Tuttle, Eco-Justice Connection Director As you have hopefully heard in the news, the 27th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 27) is currently taking place in Egypt. The theme for COP 27...

By Amy Quirk As I watch the sunrise over the Red Sea, I wonder. Might the light be revealing a new path for Interfaith Power & Light’s stewardship of creation? The IPL community has been a faithful steward of precious resources on earth. Years of steadfast...

By Rev. Susan Hendershot, President, Interfaith Power & Light Anyone who has known me for more than a minute knows of my love for and devotion to drinking tea. Golden Tip Assam, Darjeeling, Sencha, Jasmine Dragon Pearls, Puerh, Chai; you name it, and I have...

By Madison Mayhew, Federal Policy Associate for Interfaith Power & Light and DMV Interfaith Power & Light As the Federal Policy Advocate for Interfaith Power & Light and first-time COP attendee, I was unsure how my role would intersect at COP27. Within...

By Rev. Rebekah Kokalis, Interfaith Power & Light As we begin the second week of COP, I’m packing enough food and water for the day and reminding myself that patience is a virtue that I have been given the opportunity to practice while at COP. As my confidence...

by BEE MOORHEAD, Texas Impact/Texas IPL This week at COP was a study in contrast between international policy negotiation and the implementation work of local communities. The US is squarely in the middle of both conversations, a fact US Special Climate Envoy John...

By The Right Reverend Marc Handley Andrus, DD PhD, The Episcopal Diocese of California  Two stories I heard on the way to COP27, the latest United Nations climate change conference, being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, reminded me of the truth...

By Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo GreenFaith Latin America coordinator As in the story of Joseph and the Pharaoh’s dreams in Genesis 39, today once more in the land of Egypt, dreamers and scientists, governments and religious leaders, farmers, activists, young and old,...

by BEE MOORHEAD, Texas Impact/Texas IPL We arrived in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, for this year’s United Nations climate negotiations after two days of travel, and we were immediately in the midst of global community: friends from around the world, diplomats and policy...