California IPL Featured on CNN HLN Local Edition
A recent appearance by Southern California Outreach Director, Allis Druffel, and David Mowry of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Riverside, a CIPL member congregation, on CNN Headline News, Local Edition.
Listen to Sally Bingham’s Radio Interview
Earlier today, the Rev. Canon Sally Bingham was Steve Goldstein’s guest on Here and Now, a program on Phoenix’s NPR station, KJZZ 91.5. Sally is in Phoenix to officially launch Arizona IPL and speak at the Episcopal Diocesan Convention. She also discusses why climate change is a moral issue rather than a political issue.
The clip below is just over eight minutes long.
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Blog Action Day 2009: Climate Change
Every year, Blog Action Day focuses on an important issue facing the world and asks all bloggers to post on the issue at the same time. This
Doug and Rob, two members of the AZ IPL steering committee watching a slideshow on the construction of the Church of the Brethren
year the issue is, as you have probably guessed, climate change.
We thought we would take this opportunity to give you a snapshot of what’s happening around here today, and just remind you of some of the important ways that people of faith around the country are participating.
- Our founder, the Rev. Canon Sally Bingham is currently in Arizona, at the official launch of Arizona IPL and giving a keynote lecture tomorrow at the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona Conference, after stops this month in University Park, PA for the Religion and the Ethics of Climate Change Conference, Wisconsin for the Interfaith Earthkeeping Conference, New York, and Washinton D.C. Next week, she will be on her way to New Orleans to meet with Patriarch Bartholomew. She’s been keeping us updated with photos from Arizona all day from her iPhone.
- We’ve been excited to hear about everyone’s plans in the faith community for the 350.org’s Oct. 24th Day of Action. Maine IPL will be gathering at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception to ring the bell 350 times, raising a ruckus both for a strong agreement in Copenhagen and to get the attention of their senators to pass the climate bill.
- California IPL has been gearing up for the Third Annual Energy Oscars on Nov. 10 at Grace Cathedral here in San Francisco.
And here’s a reminder about all the ways you can get involved:
- Join thousands of others in sending a message to your senators urging them to pass the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act.
- Visit your state’s Interfaith Power and Light.
- Sign up for email alerts and join the IPL Online Activist Team for more frequent action alerts.
- Discount prices for energy-efficiency products: ShopIPL.org – Coupon code: shopipl
- Measure your congregation’s carbon footprint: CoolCongregations.com
- Purchase a copy of Love God Heal Earth by Sally Bingham
- Connect with IPL on: Facebook | Twitter | Subscribe to the IPL Blog
And finally:
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October Brought to You by the Number 350
There are two numbers to remember this month: 350 and 24. Experts say 350 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere is the safe limit for humanity. And on Saturday, October 24, many communities of faith across the land will be gathering for the 350.org Day of Action. Their activities will include prayers, celebrations, worship services, and creative messages using the number, such as ringing a church bell 350 times.
If you would like to get your faith community involved, or you want to attend an event that is already planned, visit 350.org/faith to get started.
You can also contact your state IPL leader to get plugged in to events happening around you.
Today, Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, and Mary Evelyn Tucker, of the Forum on Religion and Ecology sent out this message to faith leaders:
Friends—We need you to help at the last minute, and here’s a few sentences to get you inspired. They come from an op-ed that one of our leading 350.org spokespeople, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, just wrote for the African newspapers:
‘In South Africa we showed that if we act on the side of justice, we have the power to turn tides; on October 24 we have a chance to start turning the tide of climate change.’
He’s right—October 24, which is the 350 day of global action, has taken off like a great wave of hope. People all over the world—especially young people and people of faith—have done such an amazing job of organizing that this looks like it will be the most widespread day of political witness the world has ever seen, with several thousand actions and events in more than 150 countries. Every one will be focused on those three numbers, 3-5-0, because scientists tell us that it’s the most important number on earth: it’s the most carbon we can safely have in the atmosphere, at least if we want a planet “similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted.”
So there will be climbers high on the melting slopes of Mt. Everest with 350 banners. And the entire cabinet of the government of the Maldives has been taking scuba training so they can hold an official underwater meeting on Oct. 24 to pass a 350 resolution. I was just in Bethlehem to meet with activists from across the region: on the Israeli shore of the Dead Sea, activists will use their bodies to make a giant human 3, and in Palestine a giant 5, and on the Jordanian shore an enormous 0.
We need you and your community to join in: to join thousands of churches in ringing the steeple bell 350 times, or use that week’s Torah portion—the story of Noah—to make the case for creation care. Here’s how Archbishop Tutu put it:
Buddhist monks and Muslim congregations are joining in the same kind of hopeful actions. Everywhere participants will be worried about the fate of their own particular places—but they’ll also be standing up for the weakest people and places on earth, whose voices simply must be heard. People in almost all the nations of the earth are involved—it’s the same kind of coalition that helped make the word “apartheid” known around the world.
