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Our religious response to climate change. Maryland, DC, and Northern Virginia

Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) works with hundreds of congregations of all faiths across Maryland, DC, and Northern Virginia to save energy, go green, and respond to climate change.

05/28/2026

DC area THIS WEEK: Join us for a compelling conversation about the nexus of environmentalism and Jewish identity at this moment, featuring NYT columnist and author David Wallace-Wells. 50% off for YOU!

Capital J Mainstage: David Wallace-Wells
Thursday, May 28, 2026, 7:00PM
Cafritz Hall, Edlavitch DCJCC, 1529 16th Street NW, Washington, DC

Enter code CAPITALJFAM for 50% off tickets

https://www.edcjcc.org/show/capital-j-mainstage-david-wallace-wells/

David Wallace-Wells writes a weekly newsletter on climate change, technology and the future of the planet. At New York Magazine, his viral cover story: “The Uninhabitable Earth” paved the way for his book of the same title.

This event will offer a chance to hear directly from one of the most influential climate voices of our time, ask questions, and reflect together on what this moment demands of us as a Jewish community.

Please note that while there is a nominal charge for this event, friends of Dayenu can get half off by entering the code CAPITALJFAM.

05/20/2026

Joshua Long in Thursday's The Baltimore Sun:
"As a parent, I worry about the infrastructure and energy demand for such a facility making our energy bills even worse; I worry about pollution of our local waterways with chemicals; I worry about noise and heat island effects further diminishing safe places for my children to play outdoors.
"And as a Christian and Unitarian Universalist, I am angry at the environmental injustice of proposing to place a data center in my neighborhood, a place where so many Black and immigrant families live." (Link and info about Thursday's public input meeting in the comments.)

05/18/2026

📣 We’re hiring! 📣

The Maryland Grassroots Environmental Justice Working Group is seeking a Facilitation Coordinator to help strengthen and grow a statewide coalition advancing climate and environmental justice across Maryland.

We’re looking for someone with deep relationship-building, facilitation, and movement coordination skills who is committed to racial, environmental, and economic justice.

This is a 10-month contract position hosted by IPL-DMV with compensation up to $6,500/month, starting July 1. Please share widely with your networks and organizers who may be a good fit!

To view the full description and apply, click here:

05/08/2026

We can't believe we have to say this, but the Montgomery County Green Bank is one of the best things about Montgomery County. We have only been able to help dozens of county houses of worship to save energy and go solar because of the Green Bank, and our congregations are counting on the Green Bank to enable them to comply with the building energy performance standards the council passed into law. No one, and certainly not Cm. Will Jawando, should be proposing budgets that zero out our beloved Green Bank. Why? On behalf of so many congregations working faithfully to shift to cleaner power: leave our green bank alone.

04/30/2026

😡Enough with the budget cuts!

💚Tell the DC Council to invest in DC residents, parks, rivers, transit, affordable energy & healthy housing in the FY27 budget

🌿Join advocates and community members for Green Budget Day of Action on May 4th! Wear green for 8am rally + grassroots lobby day at the DC Council until 12pm

📢We’ll be there with 20+ environmental organizations gathering at the Wilson Building to say: don’t defund our environment or climate this year

🔗RSVP: sc.org/greenbudgetdc

04/28/2026

"The question of how we find our way in this moment, how we think about our place as people in a world in climate crisis, is fundamentally a moral and spiritual question. It is a question that belongs right here, in this pulpit and in every sacred sanctuary. That is one of the most abiding memories I have of Lavona Grow [of blessed memory], of the clarity with which she asked everyone, up to and including Virginia’s US senators – to understand that a commitment to honoring and protecting the interdependent web of existence was a matter of religious conviction for her and for this community, a core principle of Unitarian Universalist faith."
Watch our Director Joelle's Earth Day sermon at UUCA, in memory of Lavona: https://www.youtube.com/live/GkVxf5rvifI?t=2122s

04/23/2026

Join us for our virtual debrief tomorrow, 4/24 at 12 PM to discuss the bills, policies, and initiatives that Interfaith Power & Light DC MD NoVa and Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake championed throughout the Maryland legislative session. We’ll explore the lessons learned, celebrate our victories, and analyze areas where we can further improve our strategies moving forward. Register at bit.ly/26mddebrief!

12/16/2025

Guided by faith and care for our common home, across Maryland we raised our voices to hold the biggest polluters accountable. Our leaders testified and advocated in Annapolis to pass HB 128, a critical study of the harm climate polluters cause to all of us. Though vetoed at first, today we celebrate the override of the RENEW Act veto and commit ourselves to the work of justice and repair ahead!

12/05/2025

The IPL-DMV team, including our Congregational Organizer Josh’s newest little addition, met recently to mail year-end appeal letters.

Through our soulful and relational organizing, we are emboldening 12,000 people in over 1,800 diverse congregations to imagine a world beyond fuel combustion, and we can work together to make our vision real.

Our organization relies on grassroots donations from the folks we serve. Can you make a year-end gift to support our sacred work? Go to ipldmv.org/donate to give now.

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C/o IFC, 900 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington D.C., DC
20001

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http://ipldmv.org/, http://linktr.ee/Ipldmv, http://bit.ly/iplgreenjams

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