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Launched during the fall of 2006, the Climate Care campaign serves faith communities across Maine. Climate Care engages participant faith communities on a variety of platforms.
Over 2,500 climate experts from 80 countries recently gathered and warned of “irreversible climatic shifts" unless the “many tools and approaches to deal effectively with the climate change challenge are vigorously and widely implemented." Maine Interfaith Power and Light has heeded such calls to action with the view that global climate change can be affected at the local level and profoundly impacted by the direct action of Maine’s grassroots faith community. This was best exemplified in 2006 when over 60 faith communities across Maine enthusiastically responded to an offer by Maine Interfaith Power & Light to receive a free copy of An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary detailing the causes and impacts of global climate change, and showed the film to over 3,000 people statewide.
Subsequently, Maine Interfaith Power and Light created the Climate Care project to organize the growing network of faith communities working to protect the planet and to raise public awareness about climate change by inspiring communities at all levels to take meaningful action.
The Climate Care project has since provided resources and support to faith communities in developing environmental stewardship programs aimed at raising awareness about climate change while taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy conservation, the implementation of energy efficiency measures, and the use of clean power. Climate Care members have been involved in a variety of actions organized to address climate change including rallies to focus public attention on global warming (Step It Up, 2007), advocating for wind power, supporting passage of a law to limit carbon emissions from power plants, and adding an important voice to the public discourse about climate change that appeals for action based not only on science, but on the morality of doing so.
Maine Interfaith Power & Light actively supports its faith community members through education about energy conservation, the implementation of energy efficiency measures, a mini grant program to help faith based organizations reduce their carbon emissions, and the use of clean power.
P.O. Box 4834 - Portland, ME 04112-4834 / (207) 721-0444 / info@meipl.org
