The 2026 legislative session has come to a close, but our advocacy is far from over. Because of your engagement this session, we made a meaningful difference on every one of our priority issues. Your actions mattered. This was not simply a session where good bills failed to pass. It was a session where sustained pressure stopped bad outcomes and forced better ones into view.

For me, reading poetry is like seeing the world again for the first time, especially when it comes to ecopoetry.

Instead of merely writing about nature as if it were a distant, untouchable object, ecopoetry immerses the human imagination in the world of the natural environment, drawing on our human connection, for better or for worse, to our shared, Sacred Earth.​

Encounters at the Capitol can be a form of ecological conversion. When citizens and legislators meet face to face, something begins to change. These moments invite us to see with new eyes the beauty of the created world and our shared responsibility to care for it.

The 2026 legislative session is approaching Crossover Day, and the Georgia Interfaith Power & Light (GIPL) community has already made a measurable impact on our priority issues. You have sent letters, made calls, shown up at the ropes, and met directly with lawmakers. That presence matters. It changes vote counts, shapes bill language, and ensures that decisions about Georgia’s energy and environmental future are not made without accountability.