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Alaska Interfaith Power & Light

Alaska Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) is a non-profit organization supporting Alaska's faith communities in serving as stewards of Creation (earth) through six stewardship actions. These actions include: education, energy audits, energy efficiency, energy conservation, renewable energy and political engagment.

Alaska IPL helps members fulfill this responsibility by providing the tools and resources your community will need to carry out one or more of these stewardship actions. To learn more about becoming an Alaska IPL member and each of these actions, please visit The Covenant page.

Watch the video below to see powerful collaboration on caring for the Earth:


Why is it important for us to steward Creation?
 

Loving our Neighbors

As people of faith we have been instructed to care for Creation because Creation cares for humanity. Human actions that do not wisely steward Creation, pose the greatest risk to the world’s poor, who rely on healthy soils to grow food and shelter and water from rain. An earth in peril literally places humanity in peril.

Living our Responsibility

Our Creator entrusted us with the life-giving gifts of Creation: the air we breathe, precious water, soil to grow crops and animals to nourish us. And with these gifts came the responsibility to steward them prudently and justly.

Spirit of Solidarity

By standing together as stewards of Creation, people of faith have the unique opportunity to join a movement, which underscores the most fundamental values of theology. Values unifying all people of faith regardless of creed: A love of our Creator upon which all spiritual life depends and a shared responsibility to steward Creation upon which all physical life depends.

News and Events

The House approves HR 2454, The American Clean Energy and Security Act, by a vote of 33 to 25.  Click here, to see an interactive roll call of the ACES vote.

Learn more about AK IPL's Green Collar Job Programs

Green Jobs for Vets  

Visit AVN's Guide to Scripture and Policy


The Covenant

The Covenant is the membership agreement between Alaska Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) and your faith community to work together to fulfill our responsibility to steward Creation. By signing this covenant, your faith community commits to living into one or more of the stewardship actions below and Alaska IPL commits to helping you do so.

Conservation

Education

Energy Audit

Energy Efficiency

Renewable Energy

Political Engagement

Native Spirituality

O Great Spirit... help us learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock.

--Native American Prayer

Judaism

When God created the first human beings, God led them around all the trees of the garden of Eden and said: "See my works how lovely they are how fine they are... Take care not to corrupt and destroy My world."

--Ecclesiastes Rabbah 7