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September 2022
High Holidays with the Shalom Center
Our world needs healing & transformation Please come join The Shalom Center for Spiritually Rich High Holidays on Zoom: Rosh Hashanah | September 25-27th Yom Kippur | October 4-5th The central message of Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur: We can heal, repair, and transform ourselves, our society, and the life support system of planet earth. The High Holidays offer us a time for deep, honest self-reflection. In what ways have we manifested our highest spiritual selves, both in our personal…
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American Solar Energy Society’s National Solar Tour
Learn about solar in your community from those who already have it! Interfaith Power & Light is partnering with the American Solar Energy Society to invite you to attend their annual National Solar Tour. This is the largest grassroots solar, renewable energy, and sustainable living event in the country. It's taking place in neighborhoods near you, and virtually, on October 1-2, 2022. Find a site to tour near you on the National Solar Tour Map. It's an opportunity to ask…
Find out more »Main Line IPL Monthly Chapter Meeting – September 2022
The Main Line chapter of PA IPL typically meets each month on fourth Monday evenings, 7:00-8:45 via Zoom. We email a link to people on the Tuesday prior — often with a bit of special program description. Because Rosh Hashanah falls on September 26th this year, we will be having our September meeting one week later on October 3rd. We hope you will join us! To make sure you get the links, reach out to conveners Courtenay Willcox and Chuck…
Find out more »Environmental Education Series: Caring for Creation – October 2022
Join PA IPL for our 2022-23 Environmental Education Series: Caring for Creation First Fridays 12-1pm October 2022 through June 2023 OCTOBER: Introduction to PA IPL | Creation Care & Environmental Justice PA IPL is offering a virtual Environmental Education Series that is generously funded by the PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The programs will be offered virtually along with our partner, First United Methodist Church of Germantown (FUMCOG), and will be available to all of our members through this…
Find out more »Philadelphia PA IPL Local Chapter Meeting – October 2022
This month's meeting will be held on October 11th The Philadelphia chapter of PA IPL is very active. Chapter volunteers plan workshops, services, and work in coalition with many other groups bringing faith voices to climate justice and clean energy transition efforts, and they bring climate justice voices to faith work. Their monthly meetings are on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 PM, and are open to everyone. Particular meetings may focus either on planning or on a…
Find out more »Philadelphia’s Climate Justice
A panel discussion and activism exhibition at the beautiful Discovery Center in Fairmount Park. From the Community Health Act in City Council to the Whole-Home Repairs Act in Harrisburg to the Inflation Reduction Act in Washington D.C. there is a lot of environmental policy to make sense of! Please join us to discuss environmental policy and community organizing that is impacting Philadelphia. This event hopes to connect activists, organizations, public officials and concerned residents to strengthen existing campaigns and create…
Find out more »PFAS and Health Impacts: What Frontline Communities Need to Know
- Environmental Health Project (EHP) continues to explore the health risks of PFAS chemicals since it was revealed that PFAS, or chemicals that break down into PFAS, are being used in shale gas development. In this webinar, we further explore health impacts from exposure to PFAS focusing on female reproductive outcomes with Dr. Sue Fenton from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. We will then look at what frontline communities need to know and how to work to mitigate…
Find out more »Climate Disinformation and How We Can Counter It with PA IPL & JEA
Join us Wednesday, October 19 at 7:00pm for a meeting as part of PA IPL's ongoing partnership with Jewish Earth Alliance (JEA). TOPIC: Climate Disinformation and How We Can Counter It SPEAKER: Jacob Roche, Senior Outreach Coordinator for the Union of Concerned Scientists Inspirational speaker: TBD - Misleading information on global warming can usually be traced directly to special interests. The energy business is one of the largest industries in the world. Major fossil fuel companies routinely make billion-dollar profits, extracting and distributing oil,…
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