Empowering People of Faith for Bold Climate Action

Sign the 2020 Called to Climate Action Faith Statement

Highlighting Faithbased Climate Action 

Called to Climate Action Student Leader Program

This program has multiple elements to help empower bold climate action among people of faith, particularly young people. One of our summer interns was published in the Des Moines Register, where she explains how her faith ignites her personal call to respond to the climate crisis. Click on the box to read Alexandra's publication.

Faith, Farm, and Climate

This program brings farmers together to talk about how their faith calls them to climate action and how they need to lead on developing both smart public policy to reward them for climate solution innovation on their farms. NBC produced a story on our work, and came and visited Executive Director, Matt Russell's farm. Click on the box to view the online video, which summarizes our work.

2020 Religious Statement: Uphold & Upheave

Our faith and conscience call us to uphold the worth and value in all creation and to upheave injustice and exploitation. Our goal is to have 1000 Iowans of faith and conscience endorse the statement. We will be sharing it with Iowa's elected officials to show Iowans care about climate change. Click on the box to read the entire statement and endorse it.

Faith Farm and Climate

In the Fall of 2019, NBC produced a story on our program, “Faith Farm and Climate”. Reporter, Harry Smith, came and visited Executive Director, Matt Russell’s farm to discuss how farmers can lead in this planetary emergency.

Summer Iowa IPL intern Jacob Jansen talks with Sen. Kamala Harris about the urgency of the climate crisis and how farmers can lead on this issue.

A large part of our work includes gathering farmers in church basements to discuss how their faith calls them to be climate concerned farmers. 

In the summer of 2019, CNN lifted up our “farmers ready to tackle climate change” message. 

Executive Director, Matt Russell leads a round table discussion with farmers at the the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ames, Iowa.

2020 Called To Climate Action 

The climate is changing, and young people know we must respond. Our “Called to Climate Action” work focuses on empowering these young people to lean into their faith when solving this crisis. Currently, we are seeing this our vision take off. Across the state, young leaders are engaging in faith-based climate solutions. 

Read & Sign the 2020 Called to Climate Action Faith Statement written by our 2020 #calledtoclimateaction student leaders!

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