GEORGIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT:
CONNECTING FAITH, COMMUNITY & PLANET
Georgia Interfaith Power & Light ® (GIPL) inspires and equips communities of faith to organize, implement practical climate solutions, and advocate across Georgia on issues of climate change, environmental justice, and community resilience.
Partnering with Drawdown Georgia, GIPL sponsors a number of programs to help communities of faith implement practical climate solutions. This includes assisting congregations in establishing Green Teams to drive environmental justice work locally, offering Power-Wise and Solar-Wise assessments to help faith communities lower their carbon footprints, and Zero-Waste and Water-Wise audits to help organizations rethink and reduce their overall food and water waste. We have also recently expanded our ReWilding program to assist congregations in building community gardens, removing invasive species, planting trees, native plants, and more.
Our Programs
GIPL works at the local, state, and federal levels to advocate for clean energy legislation, fair water policy, and environmental justice for the future. Current priorities include advocating for conservation of the Blake Plateau (a deep-sea coral reef off the coast of Georgia), mobilizing communities against biomass, stopping plans for a gas pipeline expansion across Georgia, and getting out the vote around the upcoming Public Service Commission elections.
Our Advocacy Priorities
“We are called to foster life in defiance of all that seeks to diminish it. This is not a passive observance but an active call to push your hands deep into the earth, deep into the heart of the Divine, deep into your own life, and continue to nurture that which sustains life in you, in us, and in every inhabitant of this place we call home.”
— Codi Norred, Executive Director of GIPL
Upcoming events
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Glenn Memorial UMC Text Bank
OCT. 14 | 6:30 P.M. — 8 PM
All are invited to join Georgia Interfaith Power & Light and Glenn Memorial UMC for a text bank to get out the vote for the upcoming Public Service Commission!
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Sabbath at the Swamp
OCT. 17 | 10 A.M. — 3 P.M.
Join us with Georgians for the Okefenokee and Adamah ATL at the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp for a special interfaith Swamp Shabbat/Sabbath gathering.
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GOTV Virtual Text Bank
OCT. 26 | 6:30 P.M. — 8 P.M.
Join Georgia Interfaith Power and Light (GIPL) for virtual text banking to get out the vote for the upcoming Public Service Commission!
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