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Sacred Season Creation Care Resources
Available Now | Online Resources
This sacred season brings many beautiful opportunities to weave creation care into worship, home practice, and spiritual reflection. Below are three excellent resources from partners across the faith–climate movement:
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GreenFaith – Sacred Season Resource Pack: Ready-to-use multifaith prayers and meditations for services or study groups. Click here.
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Adamah – Greening Chanukah Guide: Joyful, practical ideas for integrating sustainability into Hanukkah celebrations. Click here.
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Creation Justice Ministries – Advent Resources: Weekly reflections, prayers, and liturgies linking Advent’s hope with climate justice. Click here.
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Midrash & Imagination: Writing the World We Want
STARTS TODAY, Thursday, December 4, 11 & 18 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Online
Ground yourself in Jewish wisdom about resilience while you explore creative writing as a spiritual practice. In this interactive workshop series, Dayenu invites you to practice imagining together and create a collective vision for the world we're calling in. Whether you're a seasoned writer or exploring creativity for the first time, this is a space for you. Participate in one session or all three.
Register here.
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(Re)Building Relationships: Good Medicine for the Climate Crisis
Tuesday, December 9 | 12-1 PM ET | Online
As faith leaders and communities navigate climate change, anxiety can fray our social fabric. Hosted by the BTS Center, join a dynamic conversation with justice advocates and social scientists Joshua Moses and Sarah Jaquette Ray to explore what constitutes spiritual medicine for building connection and resilience. Join the conversation.
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"Love Your Neighbor, Love Your World": Annual Convening with Pennsylvania IPL
Sunday, January 25, 2026 from 2-4PM ET | 7pm evening workshops from Jan. 25-29, 2026 | Online
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Save the date! MassIPL is proud to join our friends at Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light as a co-sponsor of their annual convening, "Love Your Neighbor, Love Your World", taking place online January 25–29, 2026.
The event opens with a fireside chat with renowned civil rights leader and author Valarie Kaur, followed by a week of evening workshops on tree planting, gardening, organizing skills, and the writings of bell hooks.
MassIPL will have a special discount code for our community, and all sliding-scale proceeds will support climate work here in Massachusetts. We hope you’ll join us—and consider hosting a watch party in your home or congregation! Please email mreed@massipl.org for registration information. Learn more here.
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Adapting the Electric Grid to a New Era of Extreme Weather and Wildfires
Wednesday, December 11 | 2:00 PM ET | Online
Utilities across the country are investing record amounts in grid resilience. Join industry experts for a candid and in-depth conversation about how extreme weather disasters are reshaping our electrical infrastructure and what that means for reliability, affordability, and climate readiness. Click here.
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Carbon Countdown 2025 with State Senator Michael Barrett
Saturday, December 13 | 9:30 -11:00 AM ET | Lexington, MA & Zoom
Join Senator Mike Barrett for a hybrid gathering to explore state support for local climate initiatives, hosted by Sustainable Middlesex. What are the actions and initiatives leading toward a carbon-neutral future? How can your community participate? Perfect for building and facilities teams, or anyone interested in how State programs are backing local climate projects. Click here.
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What Does Weatherization Actually Look Like?
MassIPL has helped more than 300 houses of worship weatherize their buildings. Ever wonder what that looks like for a congregation?
Have a look at this video from Advanced Green Insulation, one of our trusted commercial partners, as they insulate St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Brockton. You'll be amazed!
MassIPL offers free consultations to help congregations take full advantage of Mass Save incentives, which typically covers 100% of weatherization costs. Contact us to set up a free consultation.
Care for creation and lower your utility bills each month, with up to 100% of costs covered for your congregation!
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| Mobilize: Advocate for a Faithful Climate Future | |
ICYMI: Mobilization Win at the Statehouse
Ongoing Updates on H.4744
Last month, we asked you to contact your legislators to stop House Bill 4744 — a fast-moving bill that would have gutted Massachusetts’ climate commitments. Because of our calls and emails, and pressure from our broader movement, the House is now holding the bill back (more here). We celebrate this as a real victory and an example of our collective power. We will stay in this struggle to protect our clean energy advances, recognizing our collective power to mobilize for our shared climate!
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Join the Clean Energy Phonebanking Campaign
Now through mid-December | Online (Flexible Shifts)
Volunteers across the country are calling supporters to encourage testimony at hearings, submit public comments, and contact decision-makers to advance solar and wind energy permitting. No experience needed—training and support are provided for every shift. A simple, direct way to take meaningful climate action in real time. Register here.
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Make Polluters Pay: Climate Change Superfund (H.1014)
Action Needed Now | Advocacy Opportunity
Massachusetts needs fair mechanisms to recover climate damages from the fossil fuel companies that caused them. Bill H.1014, the climate change superfund, would bring billions in funding for weatherization, transit resilience, and green jobs—with 40% going directly to environmental justice communities. Contact your state representative to urge support for this climate justice bill. Send your message.
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American Climate Leadership Awards 2026: Celebrating Action from Local to National
Applications Now Open
If your congregation, organization, or someone in your community is doing climate leadership work, consider applying for ecoAmerica's 2026 awards. Awardees receive national recognition and funding ranging from $1,000–$50,000 to further your mission-driven climate work. It's a powerful way to amplify and resource your community's work for climate and environmental justice. Apply now.
| | Inspiration: "Again Did the Earth Shift" | | |
Again did the earth shift.
Again did the nights grow short,
and the days long
and the people of the earth were glad
and celebrated
each in their own ways.
—Diane Lee Moomey
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