Join other Green Team leaders and members from across the state to learn, share, collaborate, and plan eco-projects together! This Green Team Roundtable will occur on Feb. 11, 2025, from 12-1 p.m. on Zoom. Participant link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81214363862

Celebrate Tu B'Shvat, the Jewish New Year of the Trees, with Georgia Interfaith Power and Light and Adamah ATL as we work together to plant trees in an Atlanta park on Feb. 9, 2025, from 1-4 p.m. By helping grow the city’s urban forest, we are providing cleaner air, cool shade, and improved habitat for intown humans and wildlife alike.

Join us for the Green Screen Film Festival 2025, presented by Green Scene of Coastal Georgia, on Sunday, February 2, 2025, at 2 p.m. at The Historic Ritz Theatre. This free event features the acclaimed documentary Kiss the Ground, which explores the power of regenerative agriculture to heal our soil, reverse climate change, and secure a sustainable future. Learn more at the link below.

Join us on Saturday, Feb. 1, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah for a meaningful conversation with Debra Rienstra, author of Refugia Faith: Seeking Hidden Shelters, Ordinary Wonders, and the Healing of the Earth. You may remember Debra as the keynote speaker for last year’s Atlanta Green Team Summit—we’re thrilled to welcome her back for another inspiring conversation! Learn more below.

Due to inclement weather, we have decided to cancel this fifth IRP training event. We are exploring options to reschedule the event, potentially as a hybrid or virtual session, but no decision has been made yet. We will provide updates as soon as more information is available. Please do not travel to Legacy Park tomorrow. Stay home, stay safe, and thank you for your understanding.

Join other Green Team leaders and members from across the state to learn, share, collaborate, and plan eco-projects together! This Green Team Roundtable will occur on Jan. 14, 2025, from 12-1 p.m. on Zoom. For the participant link, please email programs@gipl.org.

GIPL and Southface invite you to join us for the fourth of our six-part training and roundtable discussion in preparation for the 2025 Georgia Power Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), the utility’s 20-year energy resource plan. This fourth session will consider Georgia Power solar procurement programs and explore the utility’s solar valuation in system planning, alongside a targeted discussion of the importance of transmission planning in the IRP and its impact on the expansion of renewable energy.

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Join other Green Team leaders and members from across the state to learn, share, collaborate, and plan eco-projects together! This Green Team Roundtable will take place on Dec. 10, 2024, from 12-1 p.m. on Zoom. For the participant link, please email programs@gipl.org.

GIPL and Southface invite you to join us for the third of our six-part training and roundtable discussion in preparation for the 2025 Georgia Power Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), the utility’s 20-year energy resource plan. This third session will consider features of the core IRP topics of resource adequacy and reliability in a time of unprecedented growth in electricity demand.

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Join other Green Team leaders and members from across the state to learn, share, collaborate, and plan eco-projects together! This Green Team Roundtable will take place on Nov. 12, 2024, from 12-1 p.m. on Zoom. For the participant link, please email programs@gipl.org.

In this five-part Candler Foundry series taught by leading scholars and theologians, you will explore the intersections of theology, spirituality, and ethics in ways that signal hopeful and generative responses to the shifting and changing realities of global warming. Professor of Black Feminist Thought and Womanist Theology, and Director of the Food, Health and Ecological Well-Being Program at Wake Forest University, Dr. Melanie L. Harris, will lead this fifth session. Learn more and register below.

Join Georgia Interfaith Power and Light (GIPL) for virtual text banking on Oct. 28 during our 2024 General Election season. Using special software, we will work together to reach out to neighbors to share non-partisan reminders about the value of exercising their right to vote. Learn more and register below.

In this five-part Candler Foundry series taught by leading scholars and theologians, you will explore the intersections of theology, spirituality, and ethics in ways that signal hopeful and generative responses to the shifting and changing realities of global warming. Georgia Interfaith Power & Light (GIPL) Executive Director Codi Norred will lead this fourth session. Learn more and register below.

Join fellow Green Team members at the Wylde Center Sugar Creek site in Decatur, Georgia on Tuesday, Oct. 22 from 9:30-11:30 a.m. for a tour and partial workday. Sugar Creek is meant to serve as a model for urban farming on unbuildable land and features pockets of pollinators, medicinal herbs, and community garden beds. Learn more and register below.

Sustainable land use stands as a pivotal, and often overlooked, climate solution. Join GIPL and other West Georgia faith communities on Oct. 19 from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in LaGrange to learn more about how your congregation can "ReWild" sacred grounds through projects like tree plantings, native plants, and community gardens. Learn more and register for free below.

In this five-part Candler Foundry series taught by leading scholars and theologians, you will explore the intersections of theology, spirituality, and ethics in ways that signal hopeful and generative responses to the shifting and changing realities of global warming. Dean's Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Dr. Kwok Pui Lan, will lead this third session on “Planetary Theology and the Climate Crisis.” Learn more and register below.

GIPL and Southface invite you to join us for the second of our six-part training and roundtable discussion in preparation for the 2025 Georgia Power Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), the utility’s 20-year energy resource plan. This second session will consider how IRP decisions impact equity and equitable distribution of system costs and benefits, and inform the utility’s progress toward a low-carbon energy future.

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Join other Green Team leaders and members from across the state to learn, share, collaborate, and plan eco-projects together! This Green Team Roundtable will take place on Oct. 15, 2024, from 12-1 p.m. on Zoom. The theme is “Artivism: Creating Art to Raise Awareness and Inspire Change” and will feature Kyarah Barton and Charles Jackson from Atlanta-based collective, Midnight Riot. For the participant link, please email programs@gipl.org. Find additional information at the link below.

In this five-part Candler Foundry series taught by leading scholars and theologians, you will explore the intersections of theology, spirituality, and ethics in ways that signal hopeful and generative responses to the shifting and changing realities of global warming. William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, Dr. William (Bill) Brown, will lead this second session. Learn more and register below.

In this five-part Candler Foundry series taught by leading scholars and theologians, you will explore the intersections of theology, spirituality, and ethics in ways that signal hopeful and generative responses to the shifting and changing realities of global warming. L. Bevel Jones III Professor of Religious Education at Emory University, Dr. Jennifer R. Ayres, will lead this first session on "Ecological Grief and the Life of Faith." Learn more and register below.

Join Georgia Interfaith Power and Light (GIPL) for virtual text banking on Oct. 1 during our 2024 General Election season. Using special software, we will work together to reach out to neighbors to share non-partisan reminders about the value of exercising their right to vote. Learn more and register below.

Georgia’s communities of faith have the power to change the world. They can play a vital role in ensuring that all people live in a world with a healthy environment, a stable climate, and resilient communities. On Oct. 1  at 11 a.m., GIPL is partnering with Drawdown Georgia to co-host a special conversation with representatives from different faith traditions across our state who are putting climate solutions into action. Join us to get inspired by the climate work being done by Georgia’s communities of faith and learn how you can help bring climate solutions home to your congregation! Learn more and register below.

Reverse Tashlich is an innovative Jewish environmental ritual celebrated globally whereby people work together to clean up local waterways, combatting plastic pollution and acting upon a shared ethic of environmental stewardship. This year, Georgia Interfaith Power and Light (GIPL) is hosting Reverse Tashlich on Sunday, Sept. 29, in partnership with Adamah ATL. Click the link below for important updates.

Green Team Summits are opportunities for faith leaders, Green Team members, and environmental activists to come together for a day of learning and fellowship. This summit on Sept. 21 at the First Presbyterian Church of Savannah will focus on ways coastal faith communities can foster spiritual and ecological resilience in the face of the climate crisis. At the summit, participants will hear from a panel of local faith leaders, participate in roundtable discussions, and attend workshops on local climate issues, coastal resilience, Green Team organizing, and advocacy. Learn more and register below.

GIPL and Southface invite you to join us for the first of a six-part training and roundtable discussion in preparation for the 2025 Georgia Power Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), the utility’s 20-year energy resource plan. This first session is designed to provide an introduction and overview to the Georgia IRP. The session will answer questions like: What is the IRP? How does the process work? What’s included in the filing? How do I get involved? This session will examine key topics anticipated in the 2025 proceeding.

Learn more and register below.

Join us, the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, and Ismaili CIVIC on World River Day and Global Ismaili CIVIC Day, Sept. 15, to act upon a shared ethic of environmental stewardship and clean up seven sites in metro Atlanta including one at the Peachtree Creek Greenway in Brookhaven, two more in Decatur at the Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve and Mason Mill Park, a location in Fulton County, Fayette County, Gwinnett County, and another in West Atlanta. Learn more and register below.

All are invited to celebrate Navaratri at this year's Fifth Annual Intown Family Garba! There will be music, aarti, dancing, food, and popsicle treats! All proceeds from the event benefit Georgia Interfaith Power and Light (GIPL) and support work with faith communities across Georgia to engage issues of climate change, environmental injustice, pollution, and resource depletion, in pursuit of a society in which every living thing can flourish. Learn more and pre-purchase tickets below.

Join other Green Team leaders and members from across the state to learn, share, collaborate, and plan eco-projects together! This Green Team Roundtable will take place on Sept. 10, 2024, from 12-1 p.m. on Zoom. This month’s theme: "Clean Water to Nourish Our Political Voices." The discussion will be led by Ayesha from GIPL's program team. Follow the link below to learn more. For participant information, please email programs@gipl.org.

Join other Green Team leaders and members from across the state to learn, share, collaborate, and plan eco-projects together! This Green Team Roundtable will take place on Aug. 13, 2024, from 12-1 p.m. on Zoom. This month’s discussion will be led by Hannah and Meagan from GIPL's program team. We will discuss our new ReWilding program. You will hear from participants in the recently launched ReWild pilot and learn more about our plans for developing a holistic approach to land use in Georgia moving forward. For the participant link, please email programs@gipl.org.