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• GIPL’s Creation Wise certification program — congregations earn points toward certification in five categories of sustainability: Power, Dirt, Water, Buy, and Waste.
  
• GIPL's faith principles — why people of faith care about creation.

Power Wise Documents

Power Wise News Release
Latest Energy Improvement Matching Grant recipients

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Good People to Interview

Email Lisa Frank for additional interview suggestions including faith leaders and congregation members across the state. 

Recent News Stories

• Green Shoots from the Stump
  
  September 8, 2011 - The Rev. Brent Owens from St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Monroe discusses the role of energy efficiency in the congregation's struggle to survive. This story is published in Vestry Papers, a national online publication from the Episcopal Church Foundation.
  
• God's original energy source
  June 2011 - Holy Trinity Parish in Decatur is featured in the national Photon magazine for embracing solar energy, with the help of GIPL's Solar Loan Fund.
• Churches caring for our planet
  March 4, 2011 - Shelia Poole of the Atlanta Journal Constitution writes about the creation care movement in churches. 
  
• Georgia’s Faith Community Sheds Light on Energy Efficiency
  Jan/Feb 2011 - Georgia Interfaith Power & Light's Power Wise program is featured in Worship Facilities magazine, a national publication that focuses on the design, construction, operation and maintenance of houses of worship.
• Seeing the Light
  February 11, 2011 - Joe Vanhoose of the Athens Banner Herald covers Georgia Interfaith Power & Light's Clergy Luncheon in Athens.
  
• Audits help churches cut energy costs
  January 14, 2011 - Kelly Jasper of the Augusta Chronicle advertises an upcoming Clergy Luncheon to spread the word about Georgia Interfaith Power & Light's Power Wise program.
• EPA gives blessing to Monroe church
  October 2, 2011 - The Walton Tribune recognizes the hard work of St. Alban's Episcopal Church and their EPA Award.
  
• EcoBriefs in Atlanta INtown 
  October 1, 2010 - Georgia Interfaith Power & Light's Power Wise program is featured on page 27 of the October issue of Atlanta INtown.
• Man of the Book...in PDF Format
  September 28, 2010 - John McCurdy of the Atlanta Jewish Times interviews Rabbi Frederick Reeves of The Temple, who has taken his commitment to the environment to the next level by going paperless.
  
• Georgia's Faith Community Targets Stimulus Funds for Energy Efficiency
  August 22, 2010 - Executive Director Alexis Chase discusses Georgia Interfaith Power & Light's Power Wise program in the Saporta Report.
• Green churches to receive federal funds
  August 14, 2010 -Dana Clark Felty of the Savannah Morning News accompanies Georgia Interfaith Power & Light on a Power Wise Energy Audit of the historic Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah.
• Stimulus Sanctuaries - Churches Going Green
  July 30, 2010 - Georgia Interfaith Power & Light’s new initiative – Power Wise – was featured by environmental reporter Marc Pickard on 11-Alive (WXIA-TV).
• Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Shows Congregations How to Save Energy while Saving Souls
  February 9, 2010 - WABE's Steve Goss interviews Alexis Chase, Executive Director, about our new Power Wise Program.
• Atlanta Environmentalist Helps Black Churches Go Green
  April 22, 2010 - NPR's Michel Martin interviews GIPL Board Member Garry Harris about Ebenezer Baptist Church's environmental stewardship program.

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