Texas Climate & Energy
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Texas is the largest energy-producing and energy-consuming state in the nation. Texas produces more electricity than any other state, generating almost twice as much as Florida, the second-highest electricity-producing state. Thus, Texas has a disproportionate impact on the ability of the U.S. and the global community to mitigate climate change. Texas also can be an energy justice leader, ensuring that energy production doesn’t harm vulnerable communities, and energy is available even to the marginalized.
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Using the Public Utility Commission of Texas Sunset Review to Safeguard Texans’ Health and Wellbeing
The upcoming 2022-2023 Sunset review of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, offers a unique opportunity for Texas lawmakers to advance public health in the Lone Star State.
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A Prayer for Just Transition
by Avery Davis Lamb “And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” O God, creator of the wind and the sun, O God, creator of oil and...
Prayer of Confession for COP 24
Prayer of Confession for COP 24: God of Creation, You once walked with Adam and Eve in the garden of creation, giving them access to your beautiful paradise. Tempted by the power of evil, Adam and Eve took your gift and desecrated it against your instruction. Expelled...
The World is Pleasant and Green
Abu Sa’id al-Khudri reported: The Messenger of God said, “The world is pleasant and green and truly God has appointed you as custodians of it to see how well you perform.” [Muslim - Kitab al-Muqaddimat] Just as we compete with one another in virtue [5:48], so we...
Call to Worship
Leader: O God, you summon the day to dawn You teach the morning to waken the earth All: Great is your name, great is your love Leader: For you the valleys shall sing for joy And your people shall praise you in every age and time All: Great is your name, great is your...
let your order prevail
Mother and Father of all creatures, whose dwelling extends beyond this earth, let no one trivialize your being. Let your order prevail. Let your intentions come to be for creation and for yourself. Give us, each day, no more than we need, and forgive us when we take...
Leviticus 6:1-7: A Call for Compensation
In this section of Leviticus, the teaching of God to Moses instructs God’s people that when someone commits a crime or sin against another person, they should not only restore what was taken in full but add one fifth to it. They should also bring an offering to God to...
2 Thessalonians 3:6-15: Accounting for Loss and Damage will require work
In this section of Paul’s second letter to the church in Thessalonia, Paul admonishes the church for reaping food that they themselves have not worked to earn. Paul seems worried about those disenfranchised being taken advantage of by those who would follow in the way...
Micah 4: A Focus on Just Transition
With the iconic verse from Micah 4:3, we are given a vision of hope for a time when we will turn our weapons of violence into tools of harvest, moving from destruction to life, war to peace. How might this message be viewed today? At COP? “Each will sit under his own...
Prayer
O Belovéd of the Beloved, pure being and clear light, you have no eyes yet you see every microbe churning the soil. You have no ears, yet you hear every child laugh and infant cry. You have no hands, yet every nesting bird rests in the palm of your hand. You have no...
A Prayer for Solidarity and Common Purpose
By Rev. Bill Somplatsky-Jarman, PC(USA) Compassion, Peace and Justice Ministries O God, our Creator and Redeemer, we come to you perplexed, contrite, worried, searching, tired, in need of your presence to restore our hope. We struggle to take the steps necessary to...