If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
--Lyndon B. Johnson

Join us on Thursday evening, April 26th at for an interfaith, vegetarian, potluck meal as people from different religious traditions gather to build community and explore ways we might work together on local environmental concerns.

On March 6th, over thirty people from different congregations came together in Dallas to learn about creating a local, interfaith, environmental network. This April potluck is our next gathering, where we look forward to getting to know each other better and to making plans for continued collaboration. Please join us!

Thursday, April 26th, 2012, 6:30 p.m.
Lovers Lane United Methodist Church
9200 Inwood Rd (corner of Inwood Rd & Northwest Hwy)
Dallas, TX 75220

Amanda from Texas Interfaith Power & Light plans to join us. Please send her an email to RSVP, and bring a vegetarian dish to share.

Location details

We will meet in room:  CFC 103 - 105 (Christ Family Center)

Enter the church parking lot from Inwood Road and park in Green Parking area.
(You can enter from NW Hwy but you will need to drive around the buildings
to the green parking area on the Inwood Rd. access)

Enter the CFC (Christ Family Center) from the parking lot through the double
doors under the porte-cochere. The Gym will be on your left. Proceed
down the entry stairs and turn to your right at the bottom of the stairs, then proceed down the hall to the end, which ends at the entrance to room 103 - 105.

Join us on Thursday evening, April 19th at for an interfaith, vegetarian, potluck meal as people from different religious traditions gather to build community and explore ways we might better work together on local environmental concerns.

On March 5th, forty people from different congregations came together in Fort Worth to learn about creating a local, interfaith, environmental network. This April potluck will be our next gathering, where we look forward to getting to know each other better and to making plans for continued collaboration. Please join us!

Thursday, April 19th, 2012, 6:30 p.m.
First Congregational Church
4201 Trail Lake Dr
Fort Worth TX 76109

Amanda from Texas Interfaith Power & Light plans to join us. Please send her an email to RSVP, and bring a vegetarian dish to share.

Listen to the archived recording of this call here.

The Farm Bill broadly impacts how food is grown and distributed both here and around the world; it affects federal food assistance programs like SNAP (formerly known as “food stamps”); and since our food system has huge impacts on the environment, the Farm Bill has environmental ramifications as well.

For our April interfaith environmental conference call, we are excited to welcome three representatives from the Jewish Farm Bill Working Group to offer a range of perspectives on this important legislation. A coalition of national Jewish organizations, the Working Group recently issued a Jewish Platform for a Just Farm Bill.

Josh Protas, Vice President and Washington Director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, will join us for the call--along with Sarah Levinson, Assistant Director of COEJL (Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life); and Dahlia Rockowitz, Policy Associate on the Reverse Hunger campaign, from the American Jewish World Service. Together, they'll help us understand how the Farm Bill impacts hunger both at home and abroad, how it affects the environment and global warming, and how we as people of faith can work toward a just Farm Bill.

As always, we will have some time for callers to ask questions, share ideas and connect!

April Interfaith Environmental Conference Call

     Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

     Dial-in number: (712) 432-3066 

     Conference Code: 424548

To RSVP for the call or request notes from the call, please e-mail Amanda. Feel free to invite others to participate!

In our monthly environmental calls, we seek to connect faith leaders around the state who are engaged in the work of caring for Creation; provide updates about environmental legislation and advocacy opportunities; keep you current on new programs and initiatives; and create a space for sharing hopes and frustrations, plans and ideas, stories and prayers.

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Photo by KevinLallier (Attribution via Flickr Creative Commons)

In our monthly environmental calls, we seek to connect faith leaders around the state who are engaged in the work of caring for Creation; provide updates about environmental legislation and advocacy opportunities; keep you current on new programs and initiatives; and create a space for sharing hopes and frustrations, plans and ideas, stories and prayers.

If you missed a call, have no fear! We keep recordings of our monthly calls here.

Our next call is scheduled for Wednesday, October 24th from noon-1:00 p.m. Please join us!

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November 2012 - "Sharing Our Light & Hope," a conversation about sources of hope in sustaining our work for creation care. Listen to this call.

September 2012 - "An Update on 'Fracking' in Texas," with guest presenter Virginia Palacios with the Environmental Defense Fund. Listen to this call.

August 2012 - "Managing Energy Use: ENERGY STAR and Portfolio Manager for Congregations" with guest presenters from the EPA. Download the slide presentation.

June 2012 - "The EPA, Global Warming, and You," with guest presenter Tyler Edgar, the Assistant Director of the Climate and Energy Campaign from the National Council of Churches’ Eco Justice Program. Listen to this call.

May 2012 - "Changes to the Open Beaches Act," with Dr. Richard McLaughlin, Endowed Chair for Marine Policy and Law of the Harte Research Institute, Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. Listen to this call.

April 2012 - "Working for a Just Farm Bill," with representatives of the Jewish Farm Bill Working Group. Listen to this call.

March 2012 - "Water," with Andrew Sansom, Director of the River Systems Institute. Listen to this call.

January 2012 - "How to Create a Green Team in Your Congregation," with Robin Nelson, Environmental Stewardship Manager of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Listen to this call.

Listen to the archived recording of this call.

For our March interfaith environmental conference call, we are excited to welcome Andrew Sansom, Executive Director of the River Systems Institute at Texas State University, as our guest presenter. Andrew will talk with us about the state of water in Texas, and we'll explore ways that Texans of faith can engage on this issue.

Andrew Sansom is one of Texas’ leading conservationists. He is a former executive director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, executive director of the Texas Nature Conservancy, and founder of The Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas. We look forward to learning from him.

As always, we will have some time for callers to ask questions, share ideas and connect!

March Interfaith Environmental Conference Call

     Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

     Dial-in number: (712) 432-3066 

     Conference Code: 424548

To RSVP for the call or request notes from the call, please e-mail Amanda. Feel free to invite others to participate!

In our monthly environmental calls, we seek to connect faith leaders around the state who are engaged in the work of caring for Creation; provide updates about environmental legislation and advocacy opportunities; keep you current on new programs and initiatives; and create a space for sharing hopes and frustrations, plans and ideas, stories and prayers.

Our February interfaith environmental conference call will be Wednesday, February 22nd at 12:00 p.m. For this call, we are excited to welcome Judith McGeary, Executive Director of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, as our guest presenter. Judith will give us some information about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) - including what they are, some potential risks to the environment and human health, and ways Texans of faith can engage on this issue.

We will also talk about how starting a local, interfaith, environmental network in your area can build community, effectiveness, and hope. Sarah Macias will join us for this part of the call; she serves on the Steering Committee of the Interfaith Environmental Network, the Austin chapter of TXIPL. As always, we will have some time for callers to ask questions, share ideas and connect!

February Interfaith Environmental Conference Call

     Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

     Dial-in number: (712) 432-3066 

     Conference Code: 424548

To RSVP for the call, receive a copy of the call's agenda or request notes from the call, please e-mail Amanda. Feel free to invite others to participate!

In our monthly environmental calls, we seek to connect faith leaders around the state who are engaged in the work of caring for Creation; provide updates about environmental legislation and advocacy opportunities; keep you current on new programs and initiatives; and create a space for sharing hopes and frustrations, plans and ideas, stories and prayers.

Amanda Robinson, Coordinator of Texas Interfaith Power & Light (TXIPL), will offer a presentation in Dallas on Tuesday, March 6th about creating a local, interfaith environmental network in Dallas. Come be part of the conversation! Details are below.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
University Park United Methodist Church
4024 Caruth Blvd. at Preston Road
Dallas, TX 75225
We will meet in the Caldwell Room (A120)

To RSVP or ask questions, e-mail Amanda.

Join the facebook event, and invite your friends!

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Want to invite friends and colleagues? Great! Here's some language you can use for an e-mail:

Dear friend,

I am writing to invite you to participate in a conversation about how the faith community can work together to create a local, interfaith environmental network in Dallas. Amanda Robinson, Coordinator of Texas Interfaith Power & Light (TXIPL), will offer a presentation on Tuesday, March 6th, about local networks and facilitate a discussion about how Dallas can faithfully organize around the environmental challenges we face.

Please join us, and invite others from your religious community!

            Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
University Park United Methodist Church
4024 Caruth Blvd. at Preston Road
Dallas, TX 75225
We will meet in the Caldwell Room (A120)

For more information, visit the TXIPL story about this opportunity: http://txipl.org/content/coming-soon-presentations-fort-worth-dallas-creating-local-interfaith-eco-networks

The Dallas information page can be found here: http://txipl.org/content/txipl-dallas-march-6-2012

The Dallas facebook event page can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/357674894243196/

If you have questions, would like more information, or if you’re ready to RSVP, please e-mail Amanda: amanda@texasimpact.org.

I hope to see you there!
Thank you,
Your name here

Amanda Robinson, Coordinator of Texas Interfaith Power & Light (TXIPL), will offer a presentation in Fort Worth on Monday, March 5th about creating a local, interfaith environmental network in Fort Worth. Come be part of the conversation! Details are below.

Monday, March 5, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
First Congregational Church
4201 Trail Lake Dr
Fort Worth TX 76109

To RSVP or ask questions, e-mail Amanda.

Join the facebook event, and invite your friends!

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Want to invite friends and colleagues? Great! Here's some language you can use for an e-mail:

Dear friend,

I am writing to invite you to participate in a conversation about how the faith community can work together to create a local, interfaith environmental network in Fort Worth. Amanda Robinson, Coordinator of Texas Interfaith Power & Light (TXIPL), will offer a presentation on Tuesday, March 6th, about local networks and facilitate a discussion about how Fort Worth can faithfully organize around the environmental challenges we face.

Please join us, and invite others from your religious community!

Monday, March 5, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
First Congregational Church
4201 Trail Lake Dr
Fort Worth TX 76109
 

The Fort Worth information page can be found here: http://txipl.org/content/txipl-fort-worth-march-5-2012

The Fort Worth facebook event page can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/360699343957738/

If you have questions, would like more information, or if you’re ready to RSVP, please e-mail Amanda: amanda@texasimpact.org.

I hope to see you there!
Thank you,
Your name here

 

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