Our Core Belief is that the Active Care of the Natural World is Integral to Spiritual Life and Social Justice

New Mexico Interfaith Power & Light works for climate justice by mobilizing faith communities, faith leaders and people of faith to reduce the causes and consequences of global climate change through religious inspiration, education, outreach, implementation of sustainable practices and advocating effective climate protection policies.

We are blessed to be a large interfaith community of love in action in New Mexico. Every voice is important.

Thank You for Signing Our Petition!

To Help us plug dangerous pipeline leaks!

We obtained 385 signatures from folks in New Mexico, El Paso and a few other locations around the country. Your signatures will be added to hundreds of others from around the country and will be delivered to Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday, April 29.

“We are writing as faith leaders and people of faith and conscience who know how important it is to care for one another. The health and safety of our neighbors, wherever they live, is very important. Analysis shows that U.S. natural gas pipelines leak as much as 2.7 million tons of methane into our atmosphere each year. That’s the same impact as roughly 50 million passenger cars!”

In addition to the petition, we have reached out to the DOT in other ways. Watch a video from IPL NM/EP board co-chair Ruth Striegel

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Donate $100 and get an IPL t-shirt

Our associate executive director Clara Sims designed these shirts for Earth Day with a message for all of us: “We Are Earth: Love, grace, and justice guide our steps into the future.” We hope you are inspired to carry these words with you this season.

 DONATE HERE

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IPL New Mexico-El Paso Roundhouse Report

Read an overview of the some of the areas and bills that we followed during the recently concluded 30-day State Legislative session.

The summary includes appropriations and bills related to environment, environmental health and climate that PASSED and bills related to environment, health and climate that did not make it through

See the Legislative Action Guide  that we shared before the start of the legislative session, (which you can also download in MS Word format).

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April is Earth Month in New Mexico  

Mark Your Calendars for these events (updated April 8)

(click on each link for more information)  

 6 Tree New Mexico ABQ Mesa Village neighborhood tree planting

10 Faith Leaders Breakfast  Rev. Talitha Arnold from United Church of Santa Fe and Bishop Michael Hunn from Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande will lead particpants in a conversation on how we deepen our spiritual lives and sustain our commitment to transformation amidst crises of creation.

 15  An Evening with Larry Rasmussen, author of ‘The Planet You Inherit’ (This is a virtual event.  Register Here)

17  Care for the Earth Event (New Mexico State University)

18 Earth Day Nosh & Knowledge: Local Flavor at Congregation Albert (Albuquerque)

18 Screening of Documentary ‘Common Ground’ (Albuquerque Mennonite Church)

20  Earth Day Las Cruces

20 Earth Day Hike & Clean-Up on the Caja del Rio

21 Earth Day Festival  (Balloon Fiesta Park, Albuquerque)

22  Screening of Documentary ‘Common Ground’ (Central UMC-Albuquerque)

27  Tree New Mexico ABQ Tuscany neighborhood tree planting

27 Screening of documentary ‘Common Ground’ (First Congregational Church, Albuquerque)

Read Our Newsletters

Do you want to go back and read one of our New Mexico El Paso Interfaith Power & Light newsletters without searching through all your e-mails?  Our repository goes back  to October 29, 2021.  You can access the newsletters here.

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