Happy holidays to all the different faiths celebrating holy days this month! You can see all of the holidays celebrated on Interfaith Cincy's Multifaith Calendar!

Happy New Year! So what are these beautiful and seemingly random stripes of color? These ‘warming stripe’ graphics are visual representations of the change in temperature as measured in Ohio since 1895. Each stripe or bar represents the average temperature change each year.

In May 2016, to make visualizing climate change easier for the general public, University of Reading climate scientist Ed Hawkins created an animated spiral graphic of global temperature change as a function of time, a representation said to have gone viral. On May 22, 2018, Hawkins published graphics constituting a chronologically ordered series of blue and red vertical stripes that he called "warming stripes".

According to the World Meteorological Association, the last 7 years (2015-2021) have all been the 7 warmest years globally since records began to be kept in 1850. Our care of God's creation is more important than ever as global temperatures continue to rise. Watch a brief video about this phenomenon here.

Join Interfaith Power & Light for a consumer-oriented webinar featuring Rosa Mitsumasu Scotti of Plug In America that will explain how to get started with electric vehicles! Topics will include:

• battery technology- how do EV batteries work?
• charging infrastructure- how can you set up home charging and where is charging accessible in your area?
• government incentives- how can the newly-passed Inflation Reduction Act help make EVs more affordable?

Please join IFPL (January 11, 2023, 2pm) for this critical discussion as we learn how electric vehicles can help us save money, protect public health, and safeguard our Sacred Earth. Hear from leading EV consumer advocate Rosa Mitsumasu Scotti as well as IPL staff members about the countless benefits of EVs!

Register Here.

Now more than ever, it’s vital to reduce the carbon footprint of our worship facilities. Hear stories from three people who succeeded in getting solar installations on their religious facilities. Learn how they did it, how much it cost, where the money came from, and when they will see the return on their investment. How did they get members and leaders of their congregation to agree and support the idea? How much CO2 emissions will be reduced by their effort? Bring your questions and curiosity. Ever wonder if you can inspire your congregation to embrace the idea of solar installation for your religious facility? Find out how you too can put solar on your house of worship.

Find out how did they got members and leaders of their congregations to agree and support the idea. Bring your questions and curiosity. Register here.

Third Act Ohio is a group of inspirational "experienced Americans" (over 60 years of age) who are fighting to protect our environment and strengthen our democracy. Kyle Vath interviewed them on his podcast and you can learn more about their organization here.

Listen to the interview on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. They have their first meeting on January 11, 2023 and sign up for their mailing list here.

Land Acknowledgement

We now occupy the ancestral lands of the Shawnee and Miami Indigenous Peoples. We acknowledge the painful history of colonization, genocide, and intergenerational trauma that they have endured, and commit to working toward truth and reconciliation. It is our hope that in our work we will honor the traditional values of creation stewardship and conservation maintained by many Indigenous People. We will work in collaboration with faith communities to build awareness of the history, traditions, and contributions of Indigenous cultures.