Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light

Heat Pump Helpers: Process Over Product
2024-11-21 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | 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!

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!

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!

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.

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!

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.

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!

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!

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!

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

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

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!

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 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!

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 – 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!

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 – 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!

Be the Spark Training
2025-05-03 10:00 - 16:00 | 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!

Be the Spark Training
2025-05-18 13:00 - 18:00 | TBD
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 Liz Loeb (MNIPL Associate Director) and Buff Grace (MNIPL Director of Faith Networks)
Dinner, coffee, and snacks provided

Interested in attending? Please consider making a gift to support this free event! Click here to make a donation.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

Community Climate Resilience Hubs – May Gathering
2025-05-20 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 MAY SESSION!

Community Climate Resilience Hubs – June Gathering
2025-06-17 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 JUNE SESSION!

Quarterly Community Offering - Summer 2025
2025-06-26 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 SUMMER QUARTERLY COMMUNITY OFFERING

Building a Resilience Network in West Central Minnesota: The Role for Faith Communities
2025-07-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Federated Church, 200 S Columbia Ave, Morris, 56267, United States
Join Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light, Federated Church and the Morris Model as we explore the role of communities of faith, conscience, or spiritual practice in a growing local resilience network. MNIPL will share about our Community Climate Resilience Network, a statewide network of resilience hubs, and we will have a conversation about the barriers and bridges to how Morris area communities can take advantage of resources for building resilience.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

Extreme Weather, Property Insurance and Community Response: A Listening Session
2025-07-08 16:00 - 19:00 | West Central Research and Outreach Center, 46352 MN-329, Morris, 56267, United States
Join the State of MN Insurance Office, The Morris Model and Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light for a listening session on the impacts of extreme weather and property insurance changes on folks in and around Morris, MN.
How have you experienced weather impacting your life and livelihood? What has changed in the property insurance landscape over the past decade?
We’ll share a meal together and explore these themes to help us make a plan to respond at the state and local level.
The event will start with an optional tour of WCROC, and we’ll provide dinner.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

Spirit of Water
2025-07-25 - 2025-07-26 | United Theological Seminary, 767 N. Eustis St. #140, St. Paul, MN, 55114, United States
Together, we will connect, learn, pray, engage, play, celebrate, and honor the spirit of water. This year’s event spans two days!
Now in its third year, Spirit of Water highlights the care and responsibility involved in protecting and sharing valuable waterways, like Mississippi River. Our focus centers on themes of gratitude, celebration, unity, the commonality of water as a presence in our lives, reverence, respect, and honor for all that is sacred.
On Friday, July 25, we will meet at United Theological Seminary ’s campus (or online) from 3:00–5:30 PM CT for an educational afternoon and evening. Afternoon workshops will focus on water protection, ecological justice, and more. After the sessions, we will offer a light dinner for participants.
In the evening, starting at 7:00 PM, we will hear from two scientists and Anishinaabeg leaders in climate justice work: Leanna Goose, a co-facilitator of the Rise & Repair Coalition, and Dawn Goodwin, co-founder of R.I.S.E. Coalition. They will speak about issues related to climate justice, water protection, and Indigenous water rights.
On Saturday, July 26, we will meet at Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul from 1:00–5:00 PM. While there, we and our partners will host a community celebration that features speakers, music, booths, food, art, and play areas.
These valued partners are co-presenting the event:

Resilient Indigenous Sisters Engaging (R.I.S.E. Coalition)
Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light
Friends of the Mississippi River

A full schedule is coming soon! If you have any questions, please contact Ry Siggelkow at rsiggelkow@unitedseminary.edu.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Line Extension Policy Comment Writing Workshop
2025-08-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Primero de Mayo Workers’ Center, 3521 E Lake St, Minneapolis, 55406, United States
A public comment workshop and free dinner. Dinner at 6 p.m., program begins at 6:30 p.m.
Minnesota’s energy regulators are making important decisions about the gas that powers many of our homes, and what changes are needed to better align the gas system with our state’s climate goals. We can have clean, reliable locally made energy that prioritizes the health of our communities. Hear about the Future of Gas proceeding at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, and how to make your voice heard through submitting a public comment. Learn from regulatory experts, have a chance to ask questions about the docket, and submit your comment before you leave.
Co-hosted by Clean Heat Minnesota, MNIPL, CUB Minnesota, COPAL, and Fresh Energy
RSVP requested to help us provide the best estimates for dinner and organizing the event. Please register using the below form.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

Building a Resilience Network in St Peter: The Role for Faith Communities
2025-08-26 12:00 - 13:30 | First Lutheran Church, 1655 18th Ave E South McKay, Alexandria, United States
Join us for a conversation about how your St. Peter-area faith community can prepare to help people in times of weather disruptions and complement services that may be provided by government and other organizations. Over the last year, MNIPL has conducted extensive research into a concept that is seeing greater demand as weather disruptions increase: Resilience Hubs. We have developed resources and are piloting 12 resilience hubs around the state beginning in September. We’ll offer a brief 10 to 15 minute presentation and then open up the space for conversation and questions about how your community could be part of a resilience network in and around St Peter.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

Extreme Weather, Property Insurance, and Community Response in St Peter: A Listening Session
2025-08-26 15:00 - 20:00 | Big Hill Farm at Gustavus Adolphus College, 800 W College Ave, St Peter, 56082, United States
Please join us at 3 pm for a tour of Big Hill Farm at Gustavus Adolphus with the Johnson Center for Environmental Innovation’s co-directors Kari Wallin and Darsa Donelan who will also take us on a tour of the college’s new 1.0 Megawatt solar system.
Then at 5:30 pm join us for dinner at the St. Peter Community Center and a second Listening Session on issues related to weather disruptions and insurance coverage with Peter Brickwedde, the Senior Director of Insurance Sustainability & Climate at the Minnesota Department of Commerce.
CLICK HERE TO RSVP!

Community Climate Resilience Hubs – September Gathering
2025-09-16 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 SEPTEMBER SESSION!
