Before we hit the road, the GIPL Organizing Team knew our Summer of Advocacy: Power Trip would be a journey. A Journey that connected faith, environmental justice, community, and advocacy while helping Georgians better understand where our power comes from, what it truly costs, and the power communities have to shape what comes next.

Our outlook for the summer was simple: go be where the people are. 

Into churches and faith communities. 

Into neighborhoods and community spaces. 

Along Georgia's rivers. Into advocacy spaces. 

And our Power Trip even landed on the campus of a HBCU, where the next generation of leaders joined the environmental justice conversation.

Sometimes caring for creation begins with something as ordinary as a bit of dirt.

Turn that soil into a native plant garden, and it feeds pollinators and restores habitat. Add compost, and yesterday's food scraps become nutrients for tomorrow's plants. Grow vegetables, and a church yard can help feed neighbors. Bring parishioners, scientists, and Master Gardeners together, and that same patch of ground becomes something more: a place where faith takes root in action.

There are many imagined versions of our world.

Walk into any bookstore, or scroll through streaming platforms and you will find entire sections of speculative fiction dedicated to dystopian stories - an imagined world where the remaining people are on a scorched or flooded earth, fighting for survival.

What if a vision of a regenerative, just, and peaceful world permeated our culture as much as, or more than stories like The Handmaid’s Tale or The Hunger Games?

The science is clear that, like other vulnerable populations, disabled people face greater impacts from climate change. And yet, disabled people are less likely to receive official aid during or after climate disasters.