Imagine if every faith community in New Mexico powered their building with the sun. Lower bills. Cleaner air. A witness to the congregation and the neighborhood that another way is possible. That’s Project HOW. Is your community ready? #ProjectHOW #FaithGoesSolar
NM-IPL has joined 72 other groups in signing a letter from the Western Environmental Law Center urging Democratic leaders to reject so-called “permitting reform” — legislation that would gut environmental protections and shut communities out of federal decision-making.
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🥾 Webinar Reminder! Coming Home: Sharing Our Pilgrimage Story
🗓️ Monday, March 30 | 6:00pm - 7:15pm (MDT)
👉 RSVP: buff.ly/FnJ7vCM
Our pilgrimage ended on Feb 5, but the story isn’t over. Join this webinar as we look back on our pilgrimage. We’ll be joined by guests who participated along the way.
🌿 Special Event: Caring for Creation
What does the climate crisis mean for people of faith — and what can we do about it?
Join us for a free gathering with Rev. Dr. Andrew Black and Desirée Bernard, NM-IPL Executive Director
April 11, 12:30-3:30pm | Menaul School Auditorium, Albuquerque
Clean air is a right.
March 23–25, NM leaders will consider requiring oil & gas companies to pay the real cost of monitoring and enforcement.
Speak up. Add your name today: bit.ly/NMEDTakeActi...
#CleanAirNM #PeopleOverPolluters #ActNowNM
📣 Retreat: Building the Faith Community for Creation Care
Join us for a day of joyful and inspirational climate action planning with Teresa Townsend of Planning Communities.
🗓️ May 2, 2026 | 9:30am - 3:30pm
📍 Monte Vista Christian Church, 3501 Campus Blvd NE, Albuquerque
👉 RSVP: buff.ly/QMfRvUv
Last chance to sign up!
📣 Permian Immersion Pilgrimage Experience
🗓️ March 26-28, 2026
📍 Carlsbad, NM
Get introduced to communities and the oil & gas industry in the Permian Basin. Join others who want to learn, pray for healing, and act for a just transition for all
👉 Register: buff.ly/iQMS7Oa
🥾 Webinar - Coming Home: Sharing Our Pilgrimage Story
🗓️ Monday, March 30 | 6:00pm - 7:15pm (MDT)
👉 RSVP: buff.ly/FnJ7vCM
Our pilgrimage ended on Feb 5, but the story isn’t over. Join this webinar as we look back on our pilgrimage. We’ll be joined by guests who participated with us along the way.
Get introduced to frontline communities and to the oil & gas industry in the Permian Basin. Join others who want to learn, pray for healing, and act for a just transition for a future for all living in Our Common Home.
Get more info and register at buff.ly/iQMS7Oa 👉
Yesterday, the EPA rescinded the Endangerment Finding, eliminating requirements to protect communities from climate pollution. As people of faith, we reject this denial of science and our moral duty. Climate change is real and devastating, creation is crying out.
The Clear Horizons Act died yesterday. 23 votes said no to our children's future, to clean air, to climate action.
Thank you to everyone who spoke up. Your voices mattered.
Like rain wearing away rock, our work continues. Step by step, together.
We did it! The power of this Pilgrimage and all of your prayers has been DELIVERED...by hand, by foot, by heart and voice! With gusto, power, truth and soul to those we have elected to serve us in New Mexico. And we couldn't have done it without YOU!
Today is landing day. Today we will walk the last 5.5 miles of this 320 mile journey with you, and walk our prayers and our bodies right into the roundhouse, in the house of the PEOPLE, to let our voices be heard. JOIN US! learn more here: buff.ly/9qyJWgC
We are in the home stretch, walking our way to the roundhouse and to YOU!
Tomorrow we complete our 320 mile Pilgrimage, as we walk our prayers and every step of this action into the roundhouse to make our voices, and the voice of our precious Earth- our shared home- heard.
buff.ly/9qyJWgC .
Day 23 of 25. The ENERGY is RISING and gathering in a profound way as we near our landing at the roundhouse on in just 2 days. We are in the final leg of this Pilgrimage. Today we are walking from Galisteo, into the familiar silhouettes of the ancestral Tewa lands of Santa Fe.
📆 the Clear Horizons Act has been rescheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026.- This is the hearing on SB18
📞 Call your Senators and urge them to pass this critical bill.
Day 20 of 25. A day of Sabbath. The practice of rest as an act of both resistance and spiritual communion. ACTION: Walk with us to the Roundhouse on February 5th ! Or meet us there. Your presence makes a difference! sign up at nm-ipl.org
Thank you!!
Hey Virginnie! (it's Sarah:))....thanks for being with us (you guys totally are!) and yes to what you say here....100%-
Our pilgrimage is not just about walking across land.
It is about walking toward a different way of being:
one that honors Earth,
one that protects human dignity,
one that tells the truth about responsibility and mutuality,
and one that refuses to weaponize lives and exacerbate suffering.
🚨 HAPPENING THURSDAY: SB18: Clear Horizons Act heads to Senate Conservation!
🗓️ Jan 29 | 🕘 9AM | 📍 Room 311
📢 Tell the committee: PASS SB18 for climate, jobs & justice!
📩 Contact them 👉 nmlegis.gov/Committee/Standing_Commi...
🔗 clearhorizonsnm.org
#SB18 #nmleg
Day 15 of 26. We are on the other side of the most remote stretch of this pilgrimage. Our days walking toward the endless horizons of this vast landscape brought us some of the deepest quiet and prayers of this action.
We are well into this more remote stretch now and have crossed our 100 mile mark! I (Clara) walked solo for the last 10 miles of our hike on Tuesday and saw our first Juniper tree of the entire trek! It's been very peaceful out here under the new moon, horizon stretching in all directions.
🥾 On Feb 5, join @NewMexicoIPL to walk with the pilgrims on the final leg of their 328 mile pilgrimage from the Permian Basin to the State Capitol. We will arrive at the Roundhouse for Climate Action Day.
👉 Walk with them: buff.ly/THQCWzL
#NMClimatePilgrimage #ClimatePilgrimage
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." Dr. MLK.
Our prayer as we walk is that we weave ourselves into the “garment of mutuality” with all our kin on this sacred earth.
Nothin like a little llama love to keep us going...
After walking 80 miles over the last six days, Desiree and I were grateful to rest our feet in Roswell yesterday. At a local coffee shop, we were reminded of the catastrophic flooding that occurred in Roswell in 2024, when half the annual rainfall of the area was delivered in a single storm.
Day 6: 80 miles down! 🥾 Tonight in Roswell, we broke bread with Episcopal leaders, shared our climate work, and found genuine partners for the road ahead. Tomorrow: rest day!
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#NMClimatePilgrimage
On our 4th day, we headed north past cows and cotton fields. We reflected on conversations we had at a community dinner in Artesia about oil & gas impacts—air pollution, "produced water" as hazardous waste, and legislators who won't listen.
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#NMClimatePilgrimage
🌍 Walking Through the Heart of Extraction
Days 2 & 3 of our pilgrimage took us through dense oil & gas development — miles of industrial infrastructure that made the connection between our bodies and the earth's body impossible to ignore.
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