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Your Voice Matters: Participate in Indiana's First-Ever Climate Action Plan!
Indiana is taking a significant step towards a more sustainable future by initiating its first-ever Climate Action Plan. With an initial...
Oct 30, 2023
The Inflation Reduction Act is an important step, but we must keep working
Today, in response to President Joe Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law, the Faith in Place Action Fund released the...
Aug 16, 2022
Rooted for Resilience in 2022
The Complexity of Resilience Last year, Faith in Place explored the theme of healing—providing space for us to explore the ways we can...
Jan 9, 2022
The IPCC Climate Report: Building Resilience in Challenging Times
From vengeful fires in the Western United States and Canada, to extreme flooding in Western Europe, this year has been filled with...
Aug 12, 2021
A Perfect Storm
By Christina Krost, Faith in Place’s Policy Coordinator By now, you’ve likely heard about the major grid failures in Texas caused by an...
Mar 2, 2021
Isioma Odum — On How Being Black Shapes Her Environmentalism
As we continue to celebrate Black History Month, we want to recognize our Black staff members who daily forge a way in the environmental...
Feb 19, 2021
Coal Ash Rulemaking Testimonies Part Two: Staff Advocate for a Stronger Final Rule
In our last blog, we shared testimonies several of our community leaders gave during the coal ash rulemaking hearing that occurred on...
Aug 21, 2020
Celeste Flores Calls Out U.S. EPA for Proposing Federal Coal Ash Roll Backs Amid Global Pandemic
In spring of 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed rollbacks to the federal coal ash...
Apr 15, 2020
Our Presence Matters: Why Advocacy is Important
Advocacy: an antidote to worry When the national political climate is as depressing as it is today, and each day brings news of another...
Feb 20, 2020
Celeste Flores attends State of the Union as Sen. Duckworth's Guest
Celeste Flores, our Lake County Outreach Director, is attending the State of the Union Address as Senator Tammy Duckworth's guest...
Feb 4, 2020
Why Climate Justice is the Best Path Forward
Faith in Place’s 2020 theme is “Rooted for Climate Justice.” Over this year, we will dive deep into exploring climate change, its roots,...
Jan 28, 2020
COP 25 – Dan Huntsha's Call to Action!
Dan Huntsha, North and West Suburbs Outreach Director had the opportunity to attend COP 25 in Madrid, Spain back in December. Find out...
Jan 21, 2020
Celebrating Five Years in Lake County: Rev. Amy Heinrich's Partner Story!
We were delighted to have Rev. Amy M. Heinrich share a partner story at our 2019 Lake County Annual Celebration and Fundraiser. She...
Nov 27, 2019
What is Veto Session Anyways? Why Advocacy Day Matters
On Oct. 29th, Faith in Place will be joining hundreds of Earth advocates in Springfield to demand clean and just energy for Illinois.
Oct 17, 2019
EcoAdvocates Join Faith in Place!
Please join us in welcoming our ecoadvocates from Lake County and the South Shore Neighborhood of Chicago!
Jul 3, 2019
600 Strong for Advocacy Day
View more photos here on our Facebook page. Our state legislators heard loud and clear that people of faith care about clean energy and...
May 21, 2019
Rooted in Values, Growing our Power
As we celebrate 20 years of Faith in Place, we sat down with the organization’s founder and long-time executive director, Rev. Dr. Clare...
May 2, 2019
Movies with Meaning
This week’s blog is by Dan Huntsha, the Outreach Director for the North & West Suburbs (McHenry, Kane, DuPage, and North & West Suburban...
Mar 29, 2019
Bright Ideas in Bronzeville
The Bronzeville neighborhood in Chicago is the hub of exciting opportunities to connect technology and energy efficiency to improve the...
Mar 18, 2019
Interfaith Climate Summit in April
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary will host an Interfaith Climate Summit for the Evanston community on Saturday, April 6, 2019....
Mar 8, 2019