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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light

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Making the connection between spirituality and sustainability.

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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. 
Hal Borland
This Hill, This Valley
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In honor of the Feast of St. Francis, do something to care for Creation, the home we share.
Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day and through whom You give us light. 
St. Francis of Assisi
Canticle of the Creatures
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Image of a corn field at dusk and the words: The greater our power to transform the world, the greater must be our capacity to discern what truly serves God-given human dignity.
Pope Leo XIV
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fall means cooler weather and time for Louisville area friends to register for the 2026 Earth Walk, this year in Seneca Park. louisvilleearthwalk.org
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
Saturday, Oct. 24.  •  10AM
Earth Walk
Seneca Park  •  Louisville, KY
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wishing a meaningful fast to all those observing.
Image of a Tallit and Shofar and the words: G’mar chatima tovah
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Image of a wheat field and the words: When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Aldo Leopold
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Image of a butterfly milkweed seed pod and the words: We are only the trustees for those who come after us. William Morris
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Happy Rosh Hashanah and a sweet new year to all.
Image of apples. pomegranates, and honey and the words "Shanah Tovah"
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Image of two chairs overlooking a peaceful lake and the words: Wishing Everyone a Relaxing Labor Day
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Image of a luna moth on a plant and the words: My work is loving the world. Mary Oliver
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Remembering Wendell Berry, novelist, poet, farmer, environmentalist, Kentuckian. Let's all pray something good into the world.
Image of a wooded river bank and the words: Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
Wendell Berry
Jayber Crow
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We live in the world when we love it.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Image of a goldfinch sitting on a coneflower seed head and the words: The earth has its music for all who will listen.
Reginald Holmes
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Image of a bee on a rudbeckia bloom and the words: The hum of bees  is the voice of  the garden. Elizabeth Lawrence
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Well this hits a little close to home.
pbs.org
Climate change may be making us lonelier. How heat waves and extreme weather disrupt social connections
As extreme weather becomes more common and disruptive, the effects can impair relationships, interrupt routines and communication, and damage gathering places and the foundations of community traditio...
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Image of a path through a wooded landscape and the words: Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
John Muir
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Image of bees on purple coneflowers and the words: Where flowers bloom so does hope. Lady Bird Johnson
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Image of a person in silhouette sitting beside a dark lake and the words: The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it. Robert Swan OBE
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Lexington friends, do you have opinions about data centers? A Planning Commission Public Hearing on Data Center is scheduled for July 30 at 1:30PM in Council Chambers (200 E. Main Street). Meetings are open to the public. Learn more here: engage.lexingtonky.gov/DataCenters
engage.lexingtonky.gov
Data Centers in Lexington
On June 9, 2026, the Urban County Council unanimously passed a moratorium on data center development in Lexington. This action pauses permits, development plans, and zone changes related to data cente...
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Image of ripples in water created by a woman's hand touching a floating flower and the words All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you.
Octavia Butler
The Parable of the Sower
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Image of blooming bee balms and the words: If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Remind members of congress that the way to affordability is cheap, clean energy from sun and wind. This Virtual Lobby Day will MAKE IT EASY for you to meet with staff at the offices of US Senators to call on Congress to act on climate at this critical time.
Jewish Earth Alliance
PRE-TISHA B’AV
VIRTUAL LOBBY DAY
FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
Meet you legislators July 21, 2026
https://bit.ly/tishabav5786
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Image of lightening bugs in a wooded landscape and the words: Yours are the heavens, yours the Earth;
you founded the world and everything in it.
Psalm 89:12
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Image of an American flag against a blue sky with the words Happy 4th of July
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Image of a dragonfly and the words: Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder. E.B. White
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Image of a canoe on a lake and the words Happy Father's Day
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Image of a heart in red, yellow, and green against a black background and the words JUNETEENTH Celebrate Freedom
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Image looking up through trees and the words: Time spent amongst trees 
is never wasted time.
Katrina Mayer
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Image of mountains at dusk and the words: We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Image of a seedling and the words A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Want to be inspired? Click the link below hear All People's, a Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Louisville, is caring for God's creation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggLT...
youtube.com
All People’s: Kentucky Congregations Caring for God’s Creation
YouTube video by Kentucky IPL
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Image of American flags and the words: Memorial Day
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
Abraham Lincoln
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Let me seek, then, the gift of silence and poverty, and solitude, where everything I touch is turned into prayer: where the sky is my prayer, the birds are \my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.
Thomas Merton, 
Thoughts in Solitude
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Image of crocuses blooming in a woodland and the words: Shout joyfully to God, all the earth. Psalm 66:2
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Image of a field of spring flowers and the words Happy Mother's Day
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"....Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees." Edwin Way Teale
Image of a man walking on a forest trail and the words: Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Edwin Way Teale
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Many AI centers are built in economically vulnerable rural areas, disproportionately affecting disadvantaged communities.
uscatholic.org
AI’s environmental costs fall most heavily on the marginalized
Data centers harm vulnerable communities. Should we continue to expand AI if its footprint deepens inequality and threatens health?
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
We're all in this together.
Moth resting on a yellow flower and the words: In nature, nothing exists alone. Rachel Carson
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It's Earth Day today (and every day). Do something to protect our common home.
Image of a crystal globe resting on moss in a forest with the words Happy Earth Day
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. 
“April Rain Song”
 Langston Hughes
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Read how Bellarmine University’s Sustainability Committee is making the connection between spiritual life and care for the world around us.
therecordnewspaper.org
Bellarmine launches Laudato Si’ Action Platform to advance campus sustainability - The Record Newspaper
Bellarmine University’s Sustainability Committee — a group of students, faculty and staff who endeavor to care for creation across the Highlands campus — has...
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
On Vaisakhi celebrate nature’s bounty and the season of renewal.
Image of field of ripe spring wheat and the words Happy Vaisakhi
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet. Thich Nhat Hanh
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
It's time to move beyond coal.
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Renewable energy is making progress. Solar generated nearly 11% of U.S. power last month. Coal generated 12%. Wind generation also exceeded coal in March 2026.
lpm.org
After Trump EPA visited Kentucky, solar almost caught up to coal
An energy policy group that favors clean energy reports that solar generated nearly 11% of U.S. power last month. Coal generated 12%.
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Have a beautiful Easter!
Image of white flowers and the words: Happy Easter This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad. Psalm 118:24
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Do what you can.
Image of a man's and a child's hands planting a tree and the words: Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. St .Oscar Romero
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Welcome, Spring!
Image of a redbud tree in bloom and the words Image of blooming redbud with the words: Never yet was  a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.
“Awakening”
  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Never doubt.
Image of roots and the words: The deep roots never doubt spring will come. Marty Rubin
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Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light @kentuckyipl.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
What if we do everything we can to fight climate change?
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