Photos from Our Booth at Earth Day Festival 2024

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IPL Team and board members staffed our booth at the Earth Day Festival: Save Energy, Money & the Planet on Sunday, April 21. The event took place at Balloon Fiesta Park in Albuquerque. Our team members (Sister Joan Brown, Rev. Clara Sims, Hayley Hathaway), our board members (Judy Brown, Ruth Striegel, Mike Prine, Ann McCartney) and volunteers (Dunia Barahona, Mateo, John Maddaus) took turns speaking to the public, taking signatures for our plug the pipeline peition, helping folks sign a post card to our federal representatives, and selling t-shirts,

Here are some photos

Earth Day Project in Albuquerque’s International District

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Twenty volunteers from Hope Evangelical Church and assorted community members cleared trash, planted trees, and spread mulch in Albuquerque’s International District on April 20. East Central Ministries has bought five lots at Chama and Domingo NE with plans to build low cost housing through a community land trust. The baby chokecherry and hackberry trees were Interplanted into existing stands of hardy elms to give them some shade and windbreak.

(Thank you to Donna Detweiler for supplying text and photos)

Video: An Evening with Larry Rasmussen

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Larry Rasmussen, a theologian, author and resident of Santa Fe, joined us for a presentation and discussion of his book, ‘The Planet we Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren, When Uncertainty is a Sure Thing,”