Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light

Be the Spark Training
2025-05-03 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | MNIPL Office, 4407 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
Join us for Be the Spark!
Participants can expect an opportunity to learn, reflect, connect, and build community and movement organizing skills. .You will leave with a practical toolkit for public advocacy, with a blueprint for inviting people to take concrete action on the issues that matter to you, and with a framework and narrative for movement building towards justice and liberation.
The work of building a more just and sustainable world is collective work – no one person or organization can change the world alone. We are part of a movement of people who care passionately about this world and the people who live in it. Our ability to influence change at the Capitol, help our neighbors transition into more sustainable energy, and repair the harms of centuries of greed and extraction is dependent on people like you and your willingness to organize your friends, neighbors, and communities to live differently in this world.
Be the Spark offers training and conversation that will help you grow your capacity to organize, build your skills through connection with other passionate people, and help you inspire others into climate justice work. In each session, you’ll get tools and practices that will help you inspire your people, focus your purpose, and identify tangible actions for successes you can celebrate.

Facilitated by Julia Nerbonne (MNIPL Executive Director) and Analyah Schlaeger dos Santos (Director, Youth N Power)
Lunch, coffee, and snacks provided
The focus of this training will be intergenerational with robust youth participation

Interested in attending? Please consider making a gift to support this free event! Click here to make a donation.
We know that this training is being offered on Saturday, and so it may not be accessible to people observing shabbat. Accordingly, we are also offering a Sunday training date. Click here to learn more about our Sunday date.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

Community Climate Resilience Hubs – April Gathering
2025-04-15 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom
Our Minnesota communities are already feeling the impacts of climate change, from widespread drought to bigger and more dangerous storms. Our neighbors are going to need support in building the relationships, infrastructure, and support to prevent and adapt to the realities of climate disruption. Minnesota’s communities of faith, and community organizations are uniquely poised to meet this particular moment.
That’s why MNIPL is launching the Community Climate Resilience Network. These trainings and conversations will bring together organizations throughout the state that are interested in meeting this moment. We’ll cover topics like, “What are Resilience Hubs?”, building good and right relationships with your communities, and emergency preparedness with experts in the field.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP FOR THE APRIL SESSION!

Quarterly Community Offering - Spring 2025
2025-03-20 19:00 - 20:15 | Zoom
Through the year and beyond, we’ll be hosting Quarterly Movement Offerings, which will be an opportunity to share what we’re working on and hear from you what you’re paying most attention to. Each session will have information about the state of climate justice work here and abroad, an opportunity to reconnect us to the importance of building a more equitable and interdependent world, and tangible action steps our communities can take to move us forward.
Now, more than ever, we need you to show up for what we know to be true: that radical kindness can create meaningful change, that decarbonizing our world’s energy is not a partisan issue, and that the moment for building our local and global capacity to prepare for climate disruption is upon us.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP FOR THE SPRING QUARTERLY COMMUNITY OFFERING

Community Climate Resilience Hubs – March Gathering
2025-03-18 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom
Our Minnesota communities are already feeling the impacts of climate change, from widespread drought to bigger and more dangerous storms. Our neighbors are going to need support in building the relationships, infrastructure, and support to prevent and adapt to the realities of climate disruption. Minnesota’s communities of faith, and community organizations are uniquely poised to meet this particular moment.
That’s why MNIPL is launching the Community Climate Resilience Network. These trainings and conversations will bring together organizations throughout the state that are interested in meeting this moment. We’ll cover topics like, “What are Resilience Hubs?”, building good and right relationships with your communities, and emergency preparedness with experts in the field.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP FOR THE MARCH SESSION!

Rise & Repair 2025 Rally + Lobby Day
2025-03-12 10:00 - 16:00 | Minnesota State Capitol, 75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Saint Paul, MN, 55155
Join us on Wednesday, March 12th at the Minnesota State Capitol for a powerful day of gathering and community action. We are coming together at a pivotal moment in our nation’s history—one that demands each of us to stand up for climate justice and the well-being of ALL our relations.
Recent actions by the Federal government threaten to unravel decades of organizing for climate justice ~ we must turn our collective grief and frustration into bold, state-level action. This is our moment to push for real solutions and dialogue with our elected officials to ensure that Indigenous rights and climate justice remain top priorities in Minnesota!

Inside the Capitol: Legislative Meetings & Advocacy
Throughout the day we’ll engage directly with legislators in scheduled meetings to ask for a “Yes” vote on critical climate legislation including the Wild Rice Act (SF 1246), 100% eWaste Collection & Recycling Bill and others from the Rise & Repair alliance platform (RiseAndRepair.org/platform).
Whether you’re an experienced advocate or new to this work, you’ll be supported in making your voice heard. Organizers with the Rise & Repair Alliance will be scheduling these meetings based on constituents in each district who RSVP at RiseAndRepair.org/rally.

People Power ~ Rally in the Rotunda! (1:15-2pm)As scheduled visits are happen across the capitol complex, we’ll assemble in the rotunda for a rally to amplify our message ~ Minnesota’s legislature must take bold action for climate justice and do so with the guidance, wisdom, and direction of Indigenous relatives who have always been, and will forever be, the caretakers of these lands.

SCHEDULE & HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Full Day Engagement:10:00 AM – Advocacy training, prep session, and morning coffee at Christ on Capitol Hill (105 University Ave W, across from the Capitol)11:45a – 12:20p – Light lunch served before walking across the street to CapitolLegislative visits throughout the day pending legislator schedules (most 2-4pm)Joining us for the Rally:12:45 PM – Assemble on the Capitol steps1:15–2:00 PM – Rally in the Rotunda!!
Now is the time to dig deep, unite, and push for the change we know is possible. When we stand together, we are a powerful force capable of accomplishing what this moment demands. We have the power to protect wild rice, freshwater, and biodiversity—our sacred life sources that need our care now more than ever. Let’s move forward with hope, resilience, and the strength of our collective will.

RSVP & Learn More: RiseAndRepair.org/rally

Community Climate Resilience Hubs – February Gathering
2025-02-18 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom
Our Minnesota communities are already feeling the impacts of climate change, from widespread drought to bigger and more dangerous storms. Our neighbors are going to need support in building the relationships, infrastructure, and support to prevent and adapt to the realities of climate disruption. Minnesota’s communities of faith, and community organizations are uniquely poised to meet this particular moment.
That’s why MNIPL is launching the Community Climate Resilience Network. These trainings and conversations will bring together organizations throughout the state that are interested in meeting this moment. We’ll cover topics like, “What are Resilience Hubs?”, building good and right relationships with your communities, and emergency preparedness with experts in the field.
Our February meeting will focus on developing relationships with New City Church co-founder Tyler Sit!
CLICK HERE TO RSVP FOR THE FEBRUARY SESSION!

February Reparations Learning Lab: Wealth Return
2025-02-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
For 2024-2025, we are offering monthly, hour-long, interactive sessions on Zoom that invite people into deeper reflection, work, and action towards repair and reparation. The February session will focus on wealth return.
These sessions are intended for white-bodied people from across different identities, lineages, traditions, and geographies who are already committed to the work of repair and reparation, and who want to continue to learn, grow, and build community. We will focus on moving from ideas towards action, and on building personal, collective, and systemic reparations practices. Black, Indigenous, Brown, and Native folks and other people of color are also welcome to join.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!
We have three asks and expectations as part of your commitment to this work together:

Watch our “Reparations: What are They?” session so that we can all arrive with a shared foundation and set of concepts.
Consider making a financial contribution of any amount that is meaningful and sustainable to you to support our Black & Native Advisory Table. Our Black & Native partners offer accountability, support, and solidarity, and it matters that we compensate their time and talent. Every dollar donated through this page goes to the amazing activists who are guiding us towards authentic change.
Consider becoming a sustaining donor of MNIPL with a monthly contribution of any amount.

MNIPL provides our reparations programming free of charge, and we can only make that possible with your support and participation.

Community-Owned Energy Solutions and Resilience Hubs at Sabathani
2025-02-11 16:30 - 18:00 | Sabathani Community Center, 310 E 38th St, Minneapolis, 55409, United States
Join Julia Nerbonne and Joshua Lewis (MNIPL), Timothy Denherder Thomas (Cooperative Energy Futures) and a group of UMN students in an exploration of local community owned energy solutions plus an overview of the resilience hub work being done at Sabathani.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

Winter Warm-Up: An MNIPL Gathering & Fundraiser
2025-02-10 17:00 - 19:00 | BlackStack Brewing, 755 Prior Ave N, St Paul, 55104, United States
Join us for our Winter Warm-Up: An MNIPL Gathering & Fundraiser!
Grab a beer or non-alcoholic beverage and connect with other Minnesotans who care about our Earth and the people who live here. Learn more about MNIPL’s current work, including our leadership in Rise & Repair, which is a diverse alliance of organizations working to support Indigenous and tribal sovereignty and climate justice at the Legislature. Join us to enjoy time together and support our shared vision of a greener and more interconnected world.
$1 from each beer purchased at the event will benefit MNIPL!
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!
The first 20 people to donate to this fundraiser will get a free beer token – donate now to get a head start!
Can’t make the event but still want to donate? Click here to make your gift!
Special thanks to our sponsors for this event: MN Solar & Mastel’s Health Foods

Quarterly Community Offering - Winter 2025
2025-01-30 19:00 - 20:15 | Zoom
Through the year and beyond, we’ll be hosting Quarterly Movement Offerings, which will be an opportunity to share what we’re working on and hear from you what you’re paying most attention to. Each session will have information about the state of climate justice work here and abroad, an opportunity to reconnect us to the importance of building a more equitable and interdependent world, and tangible action steps our communities can take to move us forward.
Now, more than ever, we need you to show up for what we know to be true: that radical kindness can create meaningful change, that decarbonizing our world’s energy is not a partisan issue, and that the moment for building our local and global capacity to prepare for climate disruption is upon us.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP FOR THE WINTER QUARTERLY COMMUNITY OFFERING

Protecting Manoomin/Psíŋ (Wild Rice) Training Webinar
2025-01-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Join the Rise & Repair Allinace for a collaborative webinar/workshop around protecting Wild Rice known as Manoomin to the Anishinaabe and Psiŋ to the Dakota. This one-hour webinar/workshop will walk through an active effort to protect this relative and include breakouts to explore ways we can work together to protect “Minnesota’s State Grain”.
RSVP is required – we will provide an email with Zoom details to those who have RSVP’d ahead of the event!
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

Community Climate Resilience Hubs – January Gathering
2025-01-21 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom
Our Minnesota communities are already feeling the impacts of climate change, from widespread drought to bigger and more dangerous storms. Our neighbors are going to need support in building the relationships, infrastructure, and support to prevent and adapt to the realities of climate disruption. Minnesota’s communities of faith, and community organizations are uniquely poised to meet this particular moment.
That’s why MNIPL is launching the Community Climate Resilience Network. These trainings and conversations will bring together organizations throughout the state that are interested in meeting this moment. We’ll cover topics like, “What are Resilience Hubs?”, building good and right relationships with your communities, and emergency preparedness with experts in the field.
This webinar kick-off focuses on potential Minnesota resilience networks, but everyone interested in resilience networks is welcome to join and participate.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP FOR THE JANUARY SESSION!

Rise & Repair Welcoming our Legislators to the 2025 Session
2025-01-14 10:00 - 13:00 | Minnesota State Capitol, 75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Saint Paul, MN, 55155
Join MNIPL and the Rise & Repair Alliance at the Minnesota Capitol to welcome our legislators to the 2025 session! We’ll gather at 10am in the L’Etoile Du Nord Room for some snacks, postcard writing and song learning and then move to the second floor by the rotunda to welcome and greet our bipartisan legislative body as they walk into chambers.
Our main focus of this event is to make sure that each elected official sees our policy priorities on Indigenous rights & climate justice from the Wild Rice Protection Act to the 100% eWaste Collection and Recycling bill. Bring good energy!
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

January Reparations Learning Lab: Political Solidarity
2025-01-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
For 2024-2025, we are offering monthly, hour-long, interactive sessions on Zoom that invite people into deeper reflection, work, and action towards repair and reparation. The January session will focus on political solidarity.
These sessions are intended for white-bodied people from across different identities, lineages, traditions, and geographies who are already committed to the work of repair and reparation, and who want to continue to learn, grow, and build community. We will focus on moving from ideas towards action, and on building personal, collective, and systemic reparations practices. Black, Indigenous, Brown, and Native folks and other people of color are also welcome to join.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!
We have three asks and expectations as part of your commitment to this work together:

Watch our “Reparations: What are They?” session so that we can all arrive with a shared foundation and set of concepts.
Consider making a financial contribution of any amount that is meaningful and sustainable to you to support our Black & Native Advisory Table. Our Black & Native partners offer accountability, support, and solidarity, and it matters that we compensate their time and talent. Every dollar donated through this page goes to the amazing activists who are guiding us towards authentic change.
Consider becoming a sustaining donor of MNIPL with a monthly contribution of any amount.

MNIPL provides our reparations programming free of charge, and we can only make that possible with your support and participation.

It's Like 1,000 New Coal Plants: The Risks of Liquefied Natural Gas
2024-12-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
Join us for It’s Like 1,000 New Coal Plants: The Risks of Liquefied Natural Gas, a conversation with national liquefied natural gas (LGN) expert Jeremy Symons about the perils of multiple proposals being considered by the outgoing Biden administration.

Symons will explain

What LNG is and why we are exporting it
How exports of LNG raise the price for natural gas customers in the U.S.
The emissions impact of current and proposed LNG operations
Opportunities for weighing in on LNG decisions by the current and future administrations

CLICK HERE TO RSVP AND ACCESS THE ZOOM LINK!

December Reparations Learning Lab: Spiritual Practice
2024-12-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
For 2024-2025, we are offering monthly, hour-long, interactive sessions on Zoom that invite people into deeper reflection, work, and action towards repair and reparation. The December session will focus on spiritual practice.
These sessions are intended for white-bodied people from across different identities, lineages, traditions, and geographies who are already committed to the work of repair and reparation, and who want to continue to learn, grow, and build community. We will focus on moving from ideas towards action, and on building personal, collective, and systemic reparations practices. Black, Indigenous, Brown, and Native folks and other people of color are also welcome to join.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!
We have three asks and expectations as part of your commitment to this work together:

Watch our “Reparations: What are They?” session so that we can all arrive with a shared foundation and set of concepts.
Consider making a financial contribution of any amount that is meaningful and sustainable to you to support our Black & Native Advisory Table. Our Black & Native partners offer accountability, support, and solidarity, and it matters that we compensate their time and talent. Every dollar donated through this page goes to the amazing activists who are guiding us towards authentic change.
Consider becoming a sustaining donor of MNIPL with a monthly contribution of any amount.

MNIPL provides our reparations programming free of charge, and we can only make that possible with your support and participation.

Rise & Repair 2025 Kickoff and Fundraiser
2024-12-07 18:30 - 20:30 | New City Center/Walker United Methodist Church, 3104 16th Ave S, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55407, United States
Join MNIPL and partner organizations for the 2025 kickoff of the Rise & Repair Alliance advancing Climate Justice & Indigenous Rights during the upcoming legislative session!
We’ll spend the evening hours of Saturday, December 7th at New City Center / Walker Methodist Church in South Minneapolis getting to know each other and learning about the issues and opportunities coming up ~ regardless of the outcome of the election!
More details and info coming soon.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!
PS: Interested in helping organize this event? Curious about how to engage with Rise & Repair as a community connector during this year’s legislative session? Have resources you’d like to contribute? Drop a message to eoin@riseandrepair.org!

Election impact on community-scale energy tax credits and federal funding: Briefing and participant Q&A
2024-11-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Zoom
Join MNIPL and Jeremy Kalin, attorney at Avisen Legal and experienced community-scale clean energy tax credit and project finance attorney, for a briefing on the impact of the recent election on the community-scale energy tax credits and federal funding. We’ll offer a short briefing on what we know, then spend the majority of the time answering questions.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

Heat Pump Helpers: Process Over Product
2024-11-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Join MNIPL’s Bret Pence and Rachel Wagner, Creative and Technical Director of Just Housing, as they share their experiences of assisting 5 homeowners in Northeastern Minnesota over the past year in determining whether their houses were good candidates for air source heat pumps. Using a grant from CERTs, MNIPL and Just Housing dove deep into examining the existing homes, and used the results to undergo a process of examination with the homeowners. Barriers to implementation were recognized and bridges around these obstacles were found, with recommendations for future deliberations on this issue. The study builds upon findings and resources explored in the Northland Heat Pump Helpers webinar series from 2023.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

So What Comes Next? A Post-Election Debrief
2024-11-13 17:00 - 19:30 | Zoom
President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and changes in our state government will have a big impact on our work and our communities. As we figure out what comes next, it’s important for us to continue to build and nurture interconnected relationships with folks who care about our world and people who live in it.
Join us on Wednesday, November 13 for a statewide online conversation about how this election has affected us and how we can continue to push forward with our work. If you’re local, we’re inviting people into our space to join the call together with an open house before hand.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP TO ATTEND IN PERSON
CLICK HERE TO RSVP TO ATTEND VIRTUALLY

November Reparations Learning Lab: Relationships
2024-11-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
For 2024-2025, we are offering monthly, hour-long, interactive sessions on Zoom that invite people into deeper reflection, work, and action towards repair and reparation. The November session will focus on relationships.
These sessions are intended for white-bodied people from across different identities, lineages, traditions, and geographies who are already committed to the work of repair and reparation, and who want to continue to learn, grow, and build community. We will focus on moving from ideas towards action, and on building personal, collective, and systemic reparations practices. Black, Indigenous, Brown, and Native folks and other people of color are also welcome to join.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!
We have three asks and expectations as part of your commitment to this work together:

Watch our “Reparations: What are They?” session so that we can all arrive with a shared foundation and set of concepts.
Consider making a financial contribution of any amount that is meaningful and sustainable to you to support our Black & Native Advisory Table. Our Black & Native partners offer accountability, support, and solidarity, and it matters that we compensate their time and talent. Every dollar donated through this page goes to the amazing activists who are guiding us towards authentic change.
Consider becoming a sustaining donor of MNIPL with a monthly contribution of any amount.

MNIPL provides our reparations programming free of charge, and we can only make that possible with your support and participation.

Vote for Climate: Using Relational Organizing to Get Out the Vote with Rep. Esther Agabje
2024-10-23 17:30 - 18:30 | V3 Sports, 701 Plymouth Ave N, Minneapolis, MN, 55411, United States
Elections are critical to making sure that our state and country are committed to repairing the harms of climate change and to building towards a green and interdependent future. In this important time, we need people like you and people you know – people who care about this world and everything that lives here – to vote in November.
The most effective way to get folks to the polls is when someone they know and trust shares why this election is important and helps them make a plan. That’s why MNIPL is holding a series of events in October to help people like you get their friends and neighbors to vote in November!
Join Rep. Esther Agabje and MNIPL for a conversation about relational organizing, a tool that helps us reach out to people in our communities to get them to vote for people who care about the things we care about: policies that support a green future and authentic repair for the harms of climate change.
This session will offer concrete tools for you to make a plan to vote, tell your story about your commitment to addressing climate change, and help your loved ones get to the polls.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

Vote for Climate: Using Relational Organizing to Get Out the Vote with Sen. Omar Fateh
2024-10-16 17:30 - 18:30 | MNIPL Office, 4407 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
Elections are critical to making sure that our state and country are committed to repairing the harms of climate change and to building towards a green and interdependent future. In this important time, we need people like you and people you know – people who care about this world and everything that lives here – to vote in November.
The most effective way to get folks to the polls is when someone they know and trust shares why this election is important and helps them make a plan. That’s why MNIPL is holding a series of events in October to help people like you get their friends and neighbors to vote in November!
Join Sen. Omar Fateh and MNIPL for a conversation about relational organizing, a tool that helps us reach out to people in our communities to get them to vote for people who care about the things we care about: policies that support a green future and authentic repair for the harms of climate change.
This session will offer concrete tools for you to make a plan to vote, tell your story about your commitment to addressing climate change, and help your loved ones get to the polls.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

October Reparations Learning Lab: Truth Telling
2024-10-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
For 2024-2025, we are offering monthly, hour-long, interactive sessions on Zoom that invite people into deeper reflection, work, and action towards repair and reparation. The October session will focus on truth telling.
These sessions are intended for white-bodied people from across different identities, lineages, traditions, and geographies who are already committed to the work of repair and reparation, and who want to continue to learn, grow, and build community. We will focus on moving from ideas towards action, and on building personal, collective, and systemic reparations practices. Black, Indigenous, Brown, and Native folks and other people of color are also welcome to join.
We have three asks and expectations as part of your commitment to this work together:

Watch our “Reparations: What are They?” session so that we can all arrive with a shared foundation and set of concepts.
Consider making a financial contribution of any amount that is meaningful and sustainable to you to support our Black & Native Advisory Table. Our Black & Native partners offer accountability, support, and solidarity, and it matters that we compensate their time and talent. Every dollar donated through this page goes to the amazing activists who are guiding us towards authentic change.
Consider becoming a sustaining donor of MNIPL with a monthly contribution of any amount.

MNIPL provides our reparations programming free of charge, and we can only make that possible with your support and participation.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

Vote for Climate: Using Relational Organizing to Get Out the Vote with Sen. Zaynab Mohamed
2024-10-08 17:30 - 18:30 | Mayflower Church, 106 E Diamond Lake Rd, Minneapolis, MN, 55419, United States
Elections are critical to making sure that our state and country are committed to repairing the harms of climate change and to building towards a green and interdependent future. In this important time, we need people like you and people you know – people who care about this world and everything that lives here – to vote in November.
The most effective way to get folks to the polls is when someone they know and trust shares why this election is important and helps them make a plan. That’s why MNIPL is holding a series of events in October to help people like you get their friends and neighbors to vote in November!
Join Senator Zaynab Mohamed, Mayflower Church, and MNIPL for a conversation about relational organizing, a tool that helps us reach out to people in our communities to get them to vote for people who care about the things we care about: policies that support a green future and authentic repair for the harms of climate change.
This session will offer concrete tools for you to make a plan to vote, tell your story about your commitment to addressing climate change, and help your loved ones get to the polls.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

Policy Solutions for the Home Insurance Crisis
2024-10-02 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Our friends at the Climate & Community Institute are hosting a conversation to discuss policy proposals for the mounting home insurance crisis rooted in new research findings on the insurance and housing markets.
Panelists will include legislators, advocates and policy researchers from Florida, Minnesota, and California, including MNIPL’s Julia Nerbonne!
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

Your Energy Transition: Making Your Home Work for the Earth
2024-09-23 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Join us for a conversation about how you can reduce your carbon emissions and save money on your energy bills!
Our homes have amazing potential to reduce carbon emissions and save us real money. A typical Minnesota household can receive $10,000 for insulating and switching to electric options, plus you get a more comfortable and safe home to live in. Join us to hear from homeowners who have made these changes and the many resources available to help you upgrade your home. We’ll unveil the digital audit tool created by our UNC intern team, connect you to energy experts that offer in-person audits, and walk through the tax credits and rebates and how to get them.
As the first fall chill comes, Minnesotans know it’s time to get our homes in order for winter. Likewise, climate change calls us to get our house in order for the planet. Many Minnesotans are responding and you can too.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

Community Harvest Camp
2024-09-20 - 2024-09-22 | Long Lake Conservation Center, 28952 438th Ln, Palisade, 56469, United States
Fire in the Village is hosting a weekend-long Community Harvest Camp! On Friday, there will be a FREE outdoor concert, featuring music by Annie Humphrey and David Huckfelt, as well as community art activities and a harvest meal prepared by Chengwatana Community Farm and friends.
Click here learn more about the concert!
After the concert, you can also stay overnight at Long Lake and join us for a Community Harvest Camp presented by the Mississippi River Open School (Macalester College) and network community partners, including Rise & Repair! This autumn culture camp is for anyone who wants to deepen their connections with place and community through time together outdoors. Activities will center around seasonal harvest in our water-rich northern climate.
Click here to learn more and register! On-site lodging is available, but space is limited.

Vote for Climate: Using Relational Organizing to Get Your Communities Activated This November
2024-09-12 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
Elections are critical to making sure that our state and country are committed to repairing the harm of climate change and to building towards a green and interdependent future. In this critical time, we need people like you and people you know, people who care about this world and everything that lives here, to vote in November.
The most effective way to get folks to the polls is when someone they know and trust shares why this election is important and helps them make a plan.
Join us for a training on relational organizing, a tool that helps us reach out to people in our communities to get them to vote for people who care about the things they care about: policies that support a green future and authentic repair for the harms of climate change.
This session will offer concrete tools for you to make a plan to vote, tell your story about your commitment to addressing climate change, and help your loved ones get to the polls.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

People Not Polluters Webinar
2024-09-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom
MNIPL is part of a new project called People Not Polluters to highlight serious regulatory failures and show that Minnesota state agencies are not living up to their responsibilities. Join us for an informational webinar & build power for People Not Polluters!
At this webinar, we’ll introduce the importance of this project, define and share characteristics of “polluter capture,” and hear from experts and community members about how this issue has impacted their lives and advocacy for strong environmental protections. There will be an audience Q & A as well as information on how to take collective action.
Together, we’re building pressure to ask our State Legislators to make agencies do right by Minnesotans and stop giving in to polluters.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP to this event hosted by Sierra Club!
