Interfaith Power & Light is a national campaign with affiliates in 30 states, including here in the DC metro area, called Greater Washington Interfaith Power & Light. Interfaith Power & Light is mobilizing a religious response to global warming in congregations through the promotion of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and conservation. IPL's new program, Carbon Covenant, links up congregations and people of faith in the U.S. with faith communities on the front lines of climate change in the developing world and offers a way to help out.
Check out the four projects featured on the Carbon Covenant website. These are faith communities in the developing world taking the initiative to mitigate climate change and protect their communities. All of the projects address the number one source of greenhouse gas emissions in the developing world: deforestation. In Cambodia, Buddhist Monks aim to protect a remote community forest from illegal logging by ordaining trees and patrolling the area. In Ghana, the Presbyterian Church is teaching alternative, sustainable livelihoods, from snail farming to bee keeping. In Cameroon, an interfaith project is fighting desertification through tree planting. And on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, a Lutheran bishop is making tree planting a condition of confirmation in the church.
Climate change affects us all. This program is a way of addressing the impacts of climate change in places many don't think about or even know about.
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