OhIPL Programs

Covenant Congregations: OhIPL helps faith communities connect with green volunteers, services, and educational resources.  OhIPL also provides opportunities to network and fellowship with people from other faith communities who are responding to the climate-change crisis. OhIPL welcomes membershop from churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, and other faith communities; or from committees or groups within those bodies. Click here to view a printable PDF of our faith community covenant.

Cool Congregations: Energy education and audits for congregations and households.  Staring in 2009, OhIPL is offering energy audits for Ohio congregations.  Ohio EPA grant support allows us to provide an audit to 50 congregations with no up-front cost.  Participating congregations will also calculate their carbon footprint, and member households can contribute their energy savings to help reduce the congregation's impact. For more information, click here. For information on our January 23 Cool Congregations workshop in Cincinnati, click here.   

Clergy Climate Caucus: A regional network of clergy from around Ohio who are speaking up about care of creation, and who are witnessing to the calls within various denominations for the U.S. to take leadership in climate change legislation.  Members of the Clergy Climate Caucus authored the Ohio Climate Change Petition, which is currently collecting signatures.

Gas Rate Savings Program: More than 50 congregations participated in our pilot program in 2008, joining together to purchase natural gas as discounted rates.  Participating congregations on average saved more than $1000.  To see details for the 2009 program, click here.  The deadline to apply for 2009-2010 was August 26, 2009.

Green Sermon Initiative: An archive of environmental stewardship sermons submitted in 2008 by Ohio preachers.  Initial submissions are posted on the original OhIPL blogsite (click here to view and listen); the full collection will be posted on this site in 2009.  New submissions are welcome.  For more on green sermons, explore The Regeneration Project's collection of video sermons, or Georgia Interfaith Power and Light's worship resources page.

ShopIPL: OhIPL members can receive discounts on energy efficient products, including Energy Star appliances from Sears, by visiting www.shopipl.org.

Calendar of Events: To browse the OhIPL Calendar of Events, click here.

Congregations and OhIPL in the news (page under construction - your contributions invited): click here.