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Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action @joindayenu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
So happy to partner w the smarty pants at @environmentalvoter.bsky.social to find and motivate infrequent climate voters. Let's build a robust bloc of climate voters! dayenu.org/media/chutzp...
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Finally, a chance for climate progress: All hands on deck for the midterms as we build people power for climate and democracy - Dayenu
Why are we rallying with all our spirit and strategy to get climate voters to the polls this fall? Since we launched Dayenu six years ago, we’ve experienced a lot of ups and downs in climate policy in...
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Join Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) and faith communities across our region on 8/11 at 7pm for this webinar to learn about the data center threat to our communities, reflect on how we are called to respond, and connect with grassroots leaders in local data center fights. RSVP: bit.ly/rw-aug11
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Please note: mimicking our extraordinary multi-faith movement speaking out against the harms of data centers in MD is actually harder than it sounds: 1st, you need to belong to a congregation you can name. Then, you need multi-faith allies who are proud to be your partners.
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"It isn’t AI that is deciding to place data centers in overburdened Black & brown communities; it is people who hope to profit ... who probably live in other neighborhoods & wouldn’t want this infrastructure located where they and their children live." — Joshua Long in @baltimoresun.bsky.social
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Woodlawn residents deserve a say on proposed data center | GUEST COMMENTARY
Opinion: Woodlawn resident Joshua Long writes that he and his neighbors should have a say on whether a data center is built in his community.
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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 & community members for Green Budget Day of Action on May 4th! Wear green for 8am rally + lobby day. RSVP🔗 sc.org/greenbudgetdc
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Join us for our virtual debrief tomorrow, 4/24 at 12 PM to discuss the bills, policies, and initiatives that IPL-DMV and @ipc-chesapeake.bsky.social championed this MD legislative session. We’ll explore lessons learned, celebrate victories, and analyze areas to improve. RSVP at bit.ly/26mddebrief!
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Don’t have Earth Day plans? 🌎 Join us tomorrow evening at Crow’s Nest in downtown Baltimore at 6:30pm for our Green Jams open mic event! Come to hear & maybe share music, poetry, comedy, or any other blessings for all, as we do our best to care for our common home. RSVP now at bit.ly/iplgreenjams!
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
At Crow’s Nest Baltimore on 4/22 at 6:30pm, join Interfaith Power & Light DMV for an Earth Day Green Jams open mic event! Come to hear and maybe share music, poetry, comedy, or any other blessings for all, as we do our best to care for our common home. Get your free ticket at bit.ly/iplgreenjams!
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Celebrate Earth Day with Interfaith Power & Light DMV’s Green Jams open mic event at Crow's Nest Baltimore on 4/22 from 6:30 - 8:30 PM! Come to hear & maybe share music, poetry, comedy, or any other blessings for all, as we do our best to care for our common home. RSVP now at bit.ly/iplgreenjams!
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We’ve been working hard in MD to electrify our congregations and homes and shift to clean energy. We need all the help we can get, especially as federal incentives have been taken away, and the EmPOWER program makes all the difference. HB 1532, the Utility RELIEF Act, may put this program at risk.
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Solar panels do so much good for our congregations and communities, and the Affordable Solar Act would make that more possible. But now, some House leaders aren’t sure anymore that there’s enough support to move this bill this session.
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We need your help. 🚨🚨🚨 Please join us in speaking out against HB 1532, the Utility RELIEF Act -- which delegates plan to vote on Tuesday! -- which would drastically cut funding for EmPOWER Maryland, a key program that helps us undertake energy upgrades in our congregations and our homes. 🚨🚨🚨
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Maryland Matters @marylandmatters.org · 28/02/2026
Environmental groups rallied Thursday to protect the Strategic Energy Investment Fund, a utility-funded program created to help cut power bills and lower greenhouse gas emissions, but increasingly used by state officials to balance the state budget. marylandmatters.org/2026/02/26/p...
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'It's personal': Maryland climate groups defend energy dollars amid budget pinch - Maryland Matters
Environmental groups rallied Thursday to protect the Strategic Energy Investment Fund, a utility-funded program created to help cut power bills and lower greenhouse gas emissions, but increasingly use...
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
While IPL-DMV didn’t produce custom Lent and Ramadan calendars for 2026, we welcome all of those embracing these sacred seasons as an opportunity to engage their churches or mosques in reflection and action for our common home.
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Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions @faithforclimate.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🏛️ The 2026 Virginia General Assembly is officially underway! We’ve created a one-stop General Assembly Hub to help you stay informed and take action all session long. Stay engaged from day one—visit the hub and be part of the work ahead. 👉 faithforclimate.org/general-asse...
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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.
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Even as we’re stuck for now inside systems that still burn fuel and damage our common home, Interfaith Power & Light’s team is on the ground in our communities, affirming that everyone deserves to breathe clean air. Can you give to sustain this sacred work? Go to ipldmv.org/donate to give now.
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
IPL-DMV is 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. We rely on donations from the folks we serve. Can you make a gift to support our sacred work? Go to ipldmv.org/donate to give now.
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
💡 Ready to take faithful action for a cleaner, equitable energy future? 💡 Join us for an Energy Justice Town Hall on December 6: Understanding & Shaping Our Energy System! 🌍💚 🔗 Don’t miss out! Today is the last day to reserve your spot! ➡️ bit.ly/DecEJTownHall
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
“You serve US, the breathing public!” IPL-DMV director Joelle Novey spoke Tuesday at a rally outside DC’s PSC to demand they stop Washington Gas’ dangerous Project Pipes plan. We say NO to more gas infrastructure that harms our communities and our right to breathe clean air!
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Today we joined Rev. Dell Hinton and partners from the Clean Heat Coalition to call on @govwesmoore.bsky.social to finalize strong Clean Heat Rules. We all deserve to breathe clean air at home, and it’s time to replace polluting fuel-burning furnaces w/efficient heat pumps. marylandcleanheat.org
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Is your congregation in Prince George’s or Montgomery counties or DC? If yes, join an upcoming workshop to enroll your congregation in our Sacred Grounds “Growing Joy” program through @nationalwildlife.bsky.social! Register: bit.ly/GrowingJoyWorkshops
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
As BGE and Washington Gas share their WARMTH Act pilot projects with the Maryland Public Service Commission today, Action in Montgomery/Maryland Just Power Alliance and IPL-DMV congregations are standing with our neighbors at Northwest Park Apartments. We’re PUMPED for neighborhood geothermal in MD!
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Peterson Toscano @petersontoscano.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Kitchen stoves shouldn't poison us. But they do. Joelle Novey explains why—and how joy, chocolate fondue, and Flintstones cosplay fuel the fight. Full ep: open.spotify.com/episode/2mF8... @ipldmv.bsky.social
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
This past Sunday, we encouraged folks at IFCMW’s Interfaith Unity Walk to make #SacredHaste for clean energy projects in their homes and congregations. Join them by visiting ipldmv.org/now! What will you do to make Sacred Haste?
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Peterson Toscano @petersontoscano.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Joelle Novey’s team tested gas leaks, measured pollutants, and then showed up dressed as the Flintstones to prove their point: gas is prehistoric. Bubble & Squeak has the story. Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/2mF8... @joellenovey.bsky.social @ipldmv.bsky.social
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Join residents and advocates from across the District at the Green Budget Day of Action on Monday June 16th, 8am. We’re gathering at the Wilson building to call on the DC Council and Mayor Bowser: Don’t defund our communities and our climate in our local DC budget. Register: bit.ly/gbda-ipl
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
"What is my prediction for the end of the world?" Rev. Laura Martin asks at the Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions (FACS) awards event. "I believe the world has already ended ... and begun again, and will over and over."
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
On Earth Day, our Director Joelle closed a multi-faith gathering on Capitol Hill with this song by Sarina Partridge:  "But don't you hear them too, the voices cutting through the despair saying: 'We need you there, in the belly of the beast, singing, singing, singing–  through times such as these."
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Join us tonight at 7pm for IPL-DMV’s first-ever Climate Bible Study! Interested in learning what the Christian Bible says about climate change? Or do you seek a robust discussion about Christian climate theology? Register for Zoom Link: bit.ly/iplbiblestudy
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Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action @joindayenu.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Woohoo, Rachel Mandelbaum and Joelle Novey from Dayenu! 💙 💚
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We loved talking climate feelings and climate action with the @wrj1913.bsky.social Social Action conference, alongside @joindayenu.bsky.social!
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The BTS Center @thebtscenter.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"As the frost melts and brave buds emerge from the soil, we wonder—what’s been your sunlight, your steady root, your sprout of courage? 🌿✨ Tell us, how are you finding strength and courage in these early days of spring?" #hope #courage #spring #resilience #courage #community
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Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action @joindayenu.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
1. Climate disasters are getting bigger and more devastating, leveling towns & cities: We need massive federal operations to support recovery. 2. The places most exposed to disasters, & most fragile due to rickety infrastructure, struggle to recover. We need federal operations.
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One Earth Sangha @1earthsangha.org · 23/03/2025
Our actions for the world are prayers: implicitly relevant, meaningful, and impermanent. #ecodharma #mindfulness #activism
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Tonight, Senator Brian Feldman's committee meets to consider whether Md needs *more* gas-burning 🔥 power plants, with *less* recourse for communities when these polluters come into our neighborhoods. 🤯 All day, our District 15 congregations are calling to say: NO! (📸 @davidchoy.bsky.social) #mdga25
Senator Brian Feldman looks out from podium over a crowd of several hundred people in a church sanctuary.
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Legislators in Maryland can act in #mdga25 to lower energy bills, hold utilities accountable 7 build a fair, sustainable energy future by passing: ✅ Abundant Affordable Clean Energy (AACE) Act ✅ The Ratepayer Freedom Act, ✅ The Ratepayer Protection Act www.baltimoresun.com/2025/03/15/m...
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Maryland legislature must act to lower energy bills | GUEST COMMENTARY
It’s time for the General Assembly to step in to help Maryland families struggling under the weight of rising utility bills, writes Susan Stevens Miller.
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One Earth Sangha @1earthsangha.org · 13/03/2025
To state the ridiculously obvious: As our one and only home, the Earth requires our protection. www.epa.gov/newsreleases... #epa #eparollback #environmentalprotection
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EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
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Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) @ipldmv.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
From our Director Joelle: "Burning fossil fuels has set our planet on fire. Some days our democracy seems to also be on fire. We’re scrambling to protect neighbors from harm. I'm looking to #mdga25 legislators to protect us fiercely and to transition to clean energy locally ...
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gonatureforward.bsky.social @gonatureforward.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Always inspiring to hear from young people who are now addressing the Taking Nature Black Conference. Pictured is Kahri Brown, a 2024 graduate of Anacostia High School and now college student in North Carolina. She said: "I still have more people to help and much more to achieve."
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gonatureforward.bsky.social @gonatureforward.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I'm grateful for spaces like this that really allow us to connect with one another and ground ourselves in hope and know there is good justice work going on -Sidra Siddiqui, Community Organizer at the Washington Interfaith Network (WIN) She is currently speaking at the #TakingNatureBlack Conference
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Washington Interfaith Network (WIN DC) @win-dc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Check out this article about or coalition! "At the community level, it's been powerful for residents to take the air pollution readings themselves and use these to counter misinformation. Now that we know better, we can do better," Joelle Novey of @ipldmv.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Why detecting methane is difficult but crucial work
From handheld to space-based, new methane detectors are making it easier to track the greenhouse gas.
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Georgia Interfaith Power & Light (GIPL) @georgiaipl.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
🌙 As the crescent moon ushers in #Ramadan, remember the beauty of divine order and renewal. May this sacred month inspire all who celebrate to reflect, seek peace, and find ways to better care for Creation. #RamadanMubarak #ramadan2025
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Third Act Maryland @thirdactmd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Save NOAA Stop DOGE NOAA HQ, 1315 East-West Hwy, Silver Spring, MD 20910 On Monday, March 3rd at 10am Congressional leaders and advocates will gather at NOAA HQ in Silver Spring, MD (right at the Silver Spring Metro stop) to tell Trump and Musk to keep their hands off of NOAA.
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Third Act Maryland @thirdactmd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
💡 Ready to take action for a cleaner, equitable energy future? 💡 The 2025 Energy Justice Town Hall is just around the corner! 🌍💚 Get informed, empowered, and ready to take action on energy issues that affect YOU and your community.
Image with text: Image is at the top and depicts a colorful Baltimore rowhouse neighborhood. Text reads, Baltimore energy justice town hall. Learn, engage, and mobilize for the clean energy future we need for our health, homes, families, and communities. When: Saturday, March 8th, 2025, 10 am to 2 pm. Where: Digital Harbor High, 1100 Covington Street, Baltimore, Maryland 20230. Register: https://bit.ly/energyjusticetownhall
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CCAN Action Fund @ccanactionfund.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“Let me zoom out for a second. Famine, storms, and displacement worldwide are consequences of climate crisis. No new gas plant in Maryland!.” - Jose Coronado-Flores, @casaforall.bsky.social
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CCAN Action Fund @ccanactionfund.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“MD legislators are rushing to build fracked gas plants while ignoring public input & Environmental Justice. This must stop.” - Jorge Aguilar, @foodandwater.bsky.social
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Hot & Toxic @hotandtoxic.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The DOE’s own report confirmed it: exporting massive amounts of natural gas raises domestic fuel & electricity prices. But instead of protecting consumers, this admin. is fast-tracking LNG projects that benefit fossil fuel giants at our expense. Read more: bit.ly/4kncj75 via @gristnews.bsky.social
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Exporting natural gas raises your power bills. Trump is doing it anyway.
The administration’s efforts to solve a so-called “energy emergency” might create an actual crisis.
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Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action @joindayenu.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The House just voted to repeal a fee on methane emissions from oil & gas operations. Once upon a time... the EPA estimated the fee would prevent 1.2m metric tons of methane from entering the atmosphere - like taking ~8 million gas-powered cars off the road for a year. Now...
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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Spotted near NOAA 💙 (source www.reddit.com/r/NOAA/s/qfW...)
NOAA logo with text Hold Fast
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