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Thanks to you, AZIPL exceeded its donor challenge goal, raising $14,000 this past year! This enabled us to secure a challenge grant of $12,000 from national Interfaith Power and Light.  Thank you, thank you! We have many contributors to thank. Individuals gave $5300.  And we had 16 new givers in 2016. Read more…

UMOM New Day Centers in Phoenix has operated a food garden for several years.  In 9 raised beds measuring 6 ft. by 8 ft., they have grown a variety of vegetables and herbs, including tomato plants, cucumbers and squash.  This has been used in their own kitchen. With more volunteers, Read more…

The Green Team of The Fountains UMC, along with Arizona Interfaith Power and Light, is pleased to present a three-part film series and discussion on “Faith and Food Justice”.  The first film, “Preaching for the Planet,” provides an interfaith perspective on the care of our planet.  The second, award-winning, film, Read more…

AZIPL is announcing that we are now accepting nominations for the SAGE (Spirited Activists Greening the Earth) Award.  This award recognizes both individuals and faith communities for their exemplary activism in partnership with AZIPL to reduce the causes of climate change.  Last year’s awardees were the Franciscan Renewal Center and Read more…

In our continuing AZIPL series on community gardens, here is a collaboration that you should know about. CGMC is providing support and encouragement to all levels of community gardens, from novice to those growing their own foods for years.  The organization consists of about 50 members from across the Valley. Read more…

The folks at the Beatitudes Campus on Glendale Avenue have developed a wonderful community garden. They have creatively used space along an exterior wall  to grow all sorts of vegetables and greens, depending on the season.  They even won an award from the Desert Botanical Garden! They provide food to Read more…

I know that you are concerned with the threats against the environment. And I suspect you wonder what you can do.  We at AZIPL encourage you to join the climate change movement!  There is no more urgent time than the present. You read our newsletter; you follow us on Facebook; Read more…

In these unsettling times over the care of our planet Earth, help us spread the word of your work and that of AZIPL.  Host an AZIPL House Party!  Thanks to our friends in the South Mountain neighborhood, Mark Goldstein and Liz Warren, for hosting our first house party.  Good conversation, Read more…

Join others this coming Monday, November 21 at 7:30 pm at Tempe Marketplace 16 for the showing of “Seed, The Untold Story”.  We need to increase our awareness of the entire food system.  It is logical to start with seeds.  In the last century, alone, 94% of our seed varieties Read more…