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 resources to prevent and adapt to the realities of climate disruption.
Minnesota’s faith, spiritual, and religious communities and community organizations are uniquely poised to meet this particular moment. By building deeper relationships with their immediate neighbors, upgrading and decarbonizing their facilities, and bringing together community resources, these groups can become centralized hubs of support for their neighbors. Unfortunately, many of these groups aren’t sure where to start or are struggling to do it alone.
That’s why MNIPL created the Community Climate Resilience Network. This series of training and conversation has brought together organizations throughout the state that are interested in meeting this moment.
We’ve covered topics like, “What are Resilience Hubs?”, building good and right relationships with your communities, and emergency preparedness with experts in the field.
More programming will be announced soon.
Interested in getting involved? Contact Buff Grace at buff@mnipl.org.
Community of Practice
For folks who are interested in going deeper, MNIPL offers a Community of Practice. This is for faith, spiritual, and religious communities who are ready to start this work or who are already doing it. This Community of Practice brings insights from other organizations who are doing this work, practical work plans to build your capacity, and connections to leaders and experts locally and statewide.
The next Community of Practice application is now open. Please submit before Friday, August 8.
Request for Proposals (RFP): Engineering Study to Evaluate HVAC System Upgrades at Redeemer Lutheran Church
Climate Justice Commons seeks proposals from qualified firms to conduct a comprehensive study of the existing Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems for Redeemer Lutheran Church. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the current systems and identify the most beneficial upgrade options to improve performance, reduce energy consumption, enhance occupant comfort, reduce carbon footprint, and ensure compliance with all relevant codes and standards. This study must be completed in compliance with EPA-funded project requirements.
Click here to see the full RFP. If you have questions, please reach out to Julia Nerbonne at julia@mnipl.org.