Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Robin Wall Kimmerer notes trees in a grove rise or fail together. Many customs start with gratitude—mealtime grace, harvest prayers. What if gratitude guided how we live on the land? Giving back makes thanksgiving real. What has the land offered you? What can you return? 000
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Want a deeper intro to Project HOW? Watch our recorded webinar to learn what it is, why it matters, and how faith communities can take action. NM-IPL staff and partners walk through renewable pathways, support from the HOW team, and real congregation steps. buff.ly/9P6qjWa 000
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026On this International Day of Peace, we remember the Vietnamese Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh, who taught that peace and tending the Earth are one. Reverence can be small; each step slow, thankful, mindful of the soil beneath. Where do you walk that feels sacred to you? 020
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Every faith community is unique, and Project HOW gets that. Congregations pick their own route to clean energy and resilience: free audits, efficiency, electrification, solar, or batteries. Start anywhere; we ready to walk with you. 👉 buff.ly/Ft72lMr 010
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We're in the Season of Creation (Sept 1–Oct 4). Pope Francis urges an "ecological conversion"—a change that reshapes belief and daily living. Communities can transform too: energy, water, advocacy. What practice will you or your faith community embrace now? 010
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026👉 Learn more about why Project HOW matters: buff.ly/NziE7wo Caring for Earth is central to spiritual life and social justice. Project HOW springs from moral urgency into practical action, inviting faith communities to lead with courage, compassion and resilience as the climate crisis escalates. 030
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026What's one act of hope you can take for creation this week? Joanna Macy taught that hope isn’t something we wait for but a practice—like tending a garden or praying—that grows from action. As she and Chris Johnstone wrote, hope is "something we do." 020
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026In New Mexico, we’re used to dealing with heat. But this is different. This Labor Day, you can support worker safety by signing the SafeWork4All petition at buff.ly/49IqqjK. We need a #WorkerHeatRule now. It’s common sense and it's for the common good. #NewMexicoWorkersAreHot 011
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026During this Season of Creation we’re reminded caring for creation is caring for our neighbors. As the climate crisis intensifies, faith communities must lead. Project HOW helps your congregation adopt renewables to cut emissions and protect kids and elders. 👉 Learn more: buff.ly/wKci88X 000
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Tomorrow, Sept 1, starts the Season of Creation, through Oct 4. This year's theme, Living Water, calls us to become vessels of healing for the earth and each other. In NM, amid drought, dry acequias, and pressure from data centers and oil & gas; how can I become a channel of living water? 010
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026As the Trump administration seeks to slash Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments by nearly 90%, we stand in solidarity with our indigenous siblings for whom these lands are forever sacred. Raise your voice to protect these precious places: tell congress to act! 011
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026People of faith and conscience spoke up from across the state for the modernization of oil & gas clean-up rules and our voices were heard! As the modernization of these rules takes effect we are taking one small but critical step toward protecting our communities and all that sustains us. 010
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Faith communities across New Mexico are asking: how do we respond to the climate crisis with the courage our traditions demand? Project HOW (Houses of Worship) offers expert guidance, trusted installers & financing to help faith communities move from fossil fuels to renewables. 👉 buff.ly/EGkHbNR 000
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 03/06/2026We shouldn’t sacrifice the Arctic for corporate oil and gas profits. People of faith and conscience stand in solidarity with the many living communities of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. #StandWithTheArctic 021
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 15/05/2026🌱 Join us at our special event, Springing Into Slowness: Gathering to Honor Earth and Each Other on Saturday, May 30, 9:00am to 12:00pm at Shepherd of the Valley Presbyterian Church in Albuquerque. 👉 More Details & RSVP: buff.ly/dlmWKAg 000
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Heating and cooling a faith building is expensive. Project HOW helps congregations across New Mexico make the switch to renewable energy — reducing costs and carbon footprints at the same time. Want to learn more? Link in bio. #ProjectHOW #NMIPL 010
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 11/05/2026"We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children." A teaching that cuts through every political debate and gets to the heart of why we do this work. #MindfulMonday #IndigenousWisdom #SacredLand 010
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 07/05/2026☀️ Solar isn’t just an energy decision — it’s a values decision. When a congregation chooses renewable energy, they’re telling their community: we believe in a future worth protecting. #ProjectHOW #RenewableEnergy #FaithAndClimate 010
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 04/05/2026In the Atharva Veda, the Earth is called our mother: ‘What of thee I dig out, let that quickly grow over.’ Ancient wisdom for a modern crisis. What are we digging out of New Mexico’s land — and what are we leaving behind? #MindfulMonday #FaithAndClimate 000
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 02/05/2026🛢️ When our legislators vote on oil and gas regulations, they are making moral choices — about whose health matters, whose water matters, whose future matters. We will keep reminding them of that. #Advocacy #FaithAndClimate #NewMexico 000
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Imagine if every faith community in New Mexico powered their building with the sun. Lower bills. Cleaner air. A witness to the congregation and the neighborhood that another way is possible. That’s Project HOW. Is your community ready? #ProjectHOW #FaithGoesSolar 000
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 27/04/2026The concept of Bal Tashchit — do not destroy — is one of Judaism’s oldest environmental teachings. Wasting or destroying what God has created is not just wasteful. It is a moral failing. #MindfulMonday #TikkunOlam #ClimateJustice 010
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 25/04/2026📣 Retreat Reminder: Building the Faith Community for Creation Care Join us for a day of joyful and inspirational climate action planning with Teresa Townsend of Planning Communities. 🗓️ May 2, 2026 | 9:30am - 3:30pm 📍 Monte Vista Christian Church, 3501 Campus Blvd NE, Albuquerque 000
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Imagine if every faith community in New Mexico powered their building with the sun. Lower bills. Cleaner air. A witness to the congregation and the neighborhood that another way is possible. That’s Project HOW. Is your community ready? #ProjectHOW #FaithGoesSolar 010
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 18/04/2026NM-IPL has joined 72 other groups in signing a letter from the Western Environmental Law Center urging Democratic leaders to reject so-called “permitting reform” — legislation that would gut environmental protections and shut communities out of federal decision-making. 👉 Read more: buff.ly/jsFN3G7 021
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 29/03/2026🥾 Webinar Reminder! Coming Home: Sharing Our Pilgrimage Story 🗓️ Monday, March 30 | 6:00pm - 7:15pm (MDT) 👉 RSVP: buff.ly/FnJ7vCM Our pilgrimage ended on Feb 5, but the story isn’t over. Join this webinar as we look back on our pilgrimage. We’ll be joined by guests who participated along the way. 000
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 21/03/2026🌿 Special Event: Caring for Creation What does the climate crisis mean for people of faith — and what can we do about it? Join us for a free gathering with Rev. Dr. Andrew Black and Desirée Bernard, NM-IPL Executive Director April 11, 12:30-3:30pm | Menaul School Auditorium, Albuquerque 000
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Clean air is a right. March 23–25, NM leaders will consider requiring oil & gas companies to pay the real cost of monitoring and enforcement. Speak up. Add your name today: bit.ly/NMEDTakeActi... #CleanAirNM #PeopleOverPolluters #ActNowNM 010
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 17/03/2026📣 Retreat: Building the Faith Community for Creation Care Join us for a day of joyful and inspirational climate action planning with Teresa Townsend of Planning Communities. 🗓️ May 2, 2026 | 9:30am - 3:30pm 📍 Monte Vista Christian Church, 3501 Campus Blvd NE, Albuquerque 👉 RSVP: buff.ly/QMfRvUv 000
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Last chance to sign up! 📣 Permian Immersion Pilgrimage Experience 🗓️ March 26-28, 2026 📍 Carlsbad, NM Get introduced to communities and the oil & gas industry in the Permian Basin. Join others who want to learn, pray for healing, and act for a just transition for all 👉 Register: buff.ly/iQMS7Oa 000
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 14/03/2026🥾 Webinar - Coming Home: Sharing Our Pilgrimage Story 🗓️ Monday, March 30 | 6:00pm - 7:15pm (MDT) 👉 RSVP: buff.ly/FnJ7vCM Our pilgrimage ended on Feb 5, but the story isn’t over. Join this webinar as we look back on our pilgrimage. We’ll be joined by guests who participated with us along the way. 000
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Get introduced to frontline communities and to the oil & gas industry in the Permian Basin. Join others who want to learn, pray for healing, and act for a just transition for a future for all living in Our Common Home. Get more info and register at buff.ly/iQMS7Oa 👉 000
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Yesterday, the EPA rescinded the Endangerment Finding, eliminating requirements to protect communities from climate pollution. As people of faith, we reject this denial of science and our moral duty. Climate change is real and devastating, creation is crying out. 020
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 12/02/2026The Clear Horizons Act died yesterday. 23 votes said no to our children's future, to clean air, to climate action. Thank you to everyone who spoke up. Your voices mattered. Like rain wearing away rock, our work continues. Step by step, together.sourcenm.comNew Mexico Senate rejects bill to codify state’s emissions goals • Source New MexicoSeven New Mexico Democratic state senators on Wednesday sided with their Republican colleagues and voted down the Clear Horizons Act. 011
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 07/02/2026We did it! The power of this Pilgrimage and all of your prayers has been DELIVERED...by hand, by foot, by heart and voice! With gusto, power, truth and soul to those we have elected to serve us in New Mexico. And we couldn't have done it without YOU! 130
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Today is landing day. Today we will walk the last 5.5 miles of this 320 mile journey with you, and walk our prayers and our bodies right into the roundhouse, in the house of the PEOPLE, to let our voices be heard. JOIN US! learn more here: buff.ly/9qyJWgC 022
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 04/02/2026We are in the home stretch, walking our way to the roundhouse and to YOU! Tomorrow we complete our 320 mile Pilgrimage, as we walk our prayers and every step of this action into the roundhouse to make our voices, and the voice of our precious Earth- our shared home- heard. buff.ly/9qyJWgC . 021
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Day 23 of 25. The ENERGY is RISING and gathering in a profound way as we near our landing at the roundhouse on in just 2 days. We are in the final leg of this Pilgrimage. Today we are walking from Galisteo, into the familiar silhouettes of the ancestral Tewa lands of Santa Fe. 176
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 01/02/2026📆 the Clear Horizons Act has been rescheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026.- This is the hearing on SB18 📞 Call your Senators and urge them to pass this critical bill. 010
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Day 20 of 25. A day of Sabbath. The practice of rest as an act of both resistance and spiritual communion. ACTION: Walk with us to the Roundhouse on February 5th ! Or meet us there. Your presence makes a difference! sign up at nm-ipl.org 022
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Our pilgrimage is not just about walking across land. It is about walking toward a different way of being: one that honors Earth, one that protects human dignity, one that tells the truth about responsibility and mutuality, and one that refuses to weaponize lives and exacerbate suffering. 142
Reposted by Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El PasoClear Horizons New Mexico @clearhorizonsnm.bsky.social · 27/01/2026🚨 HAPPENING THURSDAY: SB18: Clear Horizons Act heads to Senate Conservation! 🗓️ Jan 29 | 🕘 9AM | 📍 Room 311 📢 Tell the committee: PASS SB18 for climate, jobs & justice! 📩 Contact them 👉 nmlegis.gov/Committee/Standing_Comm… 🔗 clearhorizonsnm.org #SB18 #nmleg 1117
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Day 15 of 26. We are on the other side of the most remote stretch of this pilgrimage. Our days walking toward the endless horizons of this vast landscape brought us some of the deepest quiet and prayers of this action. 020
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026We are well into this more remote stretch now and have crossed our 100 mile mark! I (Clara) walked solo for the last 10 miles of our hike on Tuesday and saw our first Juniper tree of the entire trek! It's been very peaceful out here under the new moon, horizon stretching in all directions. 130
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 21/01/2026🥾 On Feb 5, join @NewMexicoIPL to walk with the pilgrims on the final leg of their 328 mile pilgrimage from the Permian Basin to the State Capitol. We will arrive at the Roundhouse for Climate Action Day. 👉 Walk with them: buff.ly/THQCWzL #NMClimatePilgrimage #ClimatePilgrimage 032
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 20/01/2026"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." Dr. MLK. Our prayer as we walk is that we weave ourselves into the “garment of mutuality” with all our kin on this sacred earth. 021
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Nothin like a little llama love to keep us going... 000
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 19/01/2026After walking 80 miles over the last six days, Desiree and I were grateful to rest our feet in Roswell yesterday. At a local coffee shop, we were reminded of the catastrophic flooding that occurred in Roswell in 2024, when half the annual rainfall of the area was delivered in a single storm. 030
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Day 6: 80 miles down! 🥾 Tonight in Roswell, we broke bread with Episcopal leaders, shared our climate work, and found genuine partners for the road ahead. Tomorrow: rest day! 👉 Read more: buff.ly/4ito3Hq #NMClimatePilgrimage 041
Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso @nm-ipl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026On our 4th day, we headed north past cows and cotton fields. We reflected on conversations we had at a community dinner in Artesia about oil & gas impacts—air pollution, "produced water" as hazardous waste, and legislators who won't listen. Read more: buff.ly/95alsEI #NMClimatePilgrimage 021