A partnership with Energize Delaware, the Faith Efficiencies program provides many energy resources including energy assessments and recommendations, funding options and ongoing cost-saving energy education to faith communities statewide.
In partnership with and fully funded by Energize Delaware (DESEU), DeIPL shared a goal: To empower religious communities and their individual members to adopt responsive, creative, effective and affordable energy conservation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy strategies with the support of energy resources that can
DeIPL is here to assist your house of faith learn how to save energy, which saves money and helps lower climate change causing pollution.
The surest way to learn about energy savings opportunities is by requesting an energy audit through the Faith Efficiencies program from Energize Delaware.
Details can be found on this website https://delawareipl.org/dev/faith-efficiencies or
request an energy audit from Energize Delaware at
https://www.energizedelaware.org/nonresidential/public-nonprofit/faith-efficiencies.
For more information, please contact Gerald Stratford at, gerald@delawareipl,org
302-312-4749
Whether you get an external audit or do it yourself, the following guide will be invaluable to help you plan, evaluate, and make energy saving actions.
Additionally, we recommend forming your own Stewardship Team, also known as a Green Team, which is a core group of people in
a congregation who are committed to raising awareness about the urgent need to protect God’s Creation and to work for environmental sustainability
and responsibility. Green Teams concepts and suggestions may be found in
the Action Workbook, or also be found in a writeup by the Episcopal Diocese of Western MA at
https://revivingcreation.org/how-to-start-a-green-team-at-your-church.
For Energy Savings at Home, our energy partner Energize Delaware has several options that are easy to arrange an
will save you energy and money. The program descriptions may be found at https://www.energizedelaware.org/residential
For more information, Please contact them by calling 877-524-1339.
For do-it-yourself options, the EPA has a great resource of choices at https://www.energystar.gov/campaign/home. These include
tools for Home Energy Assessment, Home Improvement options for insulation, heating and cooling, lighting, appliance selection and contractor finders.
Across the country, people of faith are making changes in their homes and places of worship to prevent global warming through our Cool Congregations program. Our unique stewardship program helps congregations reduce the carbon footprint of their facilities and engages their members in reducing their carbon footprint at home. The program educates, inspires, and saves money too.
Sponsored by California Interfaith Power and Light, this program has everything you need to help your congregation become a Cool Congregation: start up kits, calculators, a certification process, and a challenge that awards $1,000 in 5 categories. You can also offset your remaining emissions by planting trees through Interfaith Power & Light’s faith-based programs.
When you sign up you get a faith-based guide that helps you reduce the carbon footprint of your congregation’s facilities with this unique faith-based guide. It includes:
To join, click here or go to https://interfaithpowerandlight.org/coolcongregations/about/
Narrative: Faith Climate Action Week is ten days in April during Earth Month when IPL congregations focus on how we can all take action to protect our climate. This year's theme is Common Ground: Cultivating Connections between Food, Faith, and Climate.
Faith Climate Action Week is Interfaith Power & Light’s premier week of climate action: sermons, worship services, educational events, and hands-on-action to show that people of faith are leading the way to heal our climate. It is a 10-day period of activities in celebration around Earth Day. Through the actions of people like you, Faith Climate Action Week has reached close to 2-million people with more than 5,000 climate and Earth stewardship sermons and talks nationwide.
Use this kit to find ideas for action with tips and how-to advice to conduct a successful week. Printed kits are available for sale in January, and downloadable kits are available in March. These kits are “evergreen” and can be used any time of the year.
Click here to get you ORGANIZER KITS
Contact: For general inquiries: info@DelawareIPL.org
Delaware Interfaith Power & Light (DeIPL) is one of 40 state affiliates of Interfaith Power & Light, initiated in California in 1998. DEIPL was founded in 2011. Our shared mission is to provide a religious response to climate change through promotion of energy conservation, energy efficiency, renewable energy and environmental justice strategies.
For general inquiries: info@DelawareIPL.org
