by Bee Moorhead | Dec 18, 2024 | Climate Justice, COP27, Creation Care, Faith Communities, Resources, Texas Climate & Energy
It’s hard for some communities to imagine that solar power could even be an option. But with these rebates and possibilities through the Inflation Reduction Act, there might be more opportunity here than they would expect. Rev. Garrett Vickrey Sr. Pastor,...
by Becca Edwards | Feb 14, 2024 | Climate Justice, Creation Care, Latest Posts
In the Christian tradition, Lent is a time of reflection about the ways we have missed the mark and the ways we would like to do better in the next year. Texas Interfaith Power and Light has put together a Lenten series of reflections focused on the environmental...
by Becca Edwards | Dec 1, 2023 | Climate Justice, COP28, Creation Care, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts
For a system as complex as the earth’s climate, small changes in one part of the system can lead to big changes in another part. That means the relationship between the global temperature and the climate change impacts we know about isn’t linear. And that means that...
by Becca Edwards | Nov 30, 2023 | Blog, Climate Justice, COP28, Creation Care, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts
Tonight I attended the Interfaith Gathering in the Spirit of Talanoa Dialogue at COP28, which was held at Christ Church Jebel Ali in Dubai, UAE. Talanoa is a problem solving method that involves group discussions around three questions: Where are we? Where do we want...
by Becca Edwards | Oct 20, 2023 | Blog, Climate Justice, COP28, Creation Care, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts
Kim Stanley Robinson’s book “The Ministry for the Future” opens with the story of an aid worker struggling to escape an extreme heatwave that knocks out the power grid and kills thousands of people unable to escape the heat. The book is fiction, but it is based on an...
by Becca Edwards | Oct 9, 2023 | Blog, Climate Justice, Creation Care, Faith Leader Statements, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts
Pope Francis’s recent encyclical on climate, Laudate Deum, was released October 4. Laudate Deum serves as a follow-up to his earlier encyclical, Laudato Si. The timing of the release of this encyclical suggests that the Vatican hopes to influence the outcome of the...
