Westar Energy has filed for a $31 million dollar rate increase, which would make nearly $500 million in rate increases since 2009. What’s worse, Westar intends to shift the cost burden significantly toward residential and small business customers and away from large institutional users, which will actually see their rates go down under this current [...]
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Rev. Sally Bingham, National Founder, to Keynote Kansas IPL Annual Event
May 7, 2013 – 10:16 am
The Reverend Canon Sally G. Bingham, founder and president of national Interfaith Power & Light, will be visiting Lawrence to deliver the keynote address at the Annual Event of Kansas Interfaith Power & Light. The event will take place at Ecumenical Campus Ministries, 1204 Oread Drive in Lawrence, on Tuesday, June 4, beginning at 6:30 [...]
BILL TO ROLLBACK RPS TABLED
April 9, 2013 – 10:53 am
On Tuesday, March 19th, the House Energy & Environment committee voted 10-9 to table HB 2241 which would have rolled back renewable energy targets. Thank you for your letters, calls and emails to let your representative know how important wind energy is for Kansas. WIND IS WORKING FOR KANSAS Supporters of this successful renewable energy [...]
Help Protect the State Renewable Portfolio Standard!
February 18, 2013 – 3:32 pm
What’s at Stake The most important policy Kansas has on its books to support and expand renewable energy in Kansas is the Renewable Portfolio Standard, or RPS. Adopted in 2009, the RPS directs that certain investor-owned utilities (KCP&L and Westar mostly) get a certain percentage of their energy requirements from renewables – 10% by 2010, [...]
Don’t roll back renewable-energy standards
February 13, 2013 – 2:42 pm
Op-ed by Kansas IPL Director Rabbi Moti Rieber, published on February 12, 2013 in the Wichita Eagle. People of faith are called to be responsible stewards of God’s Creation. That’s why Kansas Interfaith Power and Light is one of a number of business, agricultural, energy, environmental and faith-based groups supporting the most effective state policy [...]
National Preach-in on Global Warming – Feb. 8-10, 2013
January 8, 2013 – 11:59 am
It’s time for the 2013 National Preach-In on Global Warming, Interfaith Power & Light’s biggest event of the year. On the weekend before Valentine’s Day, thousands of clergy, lay leaders, and other people of faith from all over the country will speak of their abiding love for God’s Creation. Sign up now to join us, [...]
Tips on Energy Use Aid for Houses of Worship – KC Star’s 913 Magazine
January 8, 2013 – 11:54 am
The Kansas City Star’s Johnson County supplement, 913, covered Kansas IPL’s energy efficiency matching grant program for KC metro-area congregations. Visit our website for more information. Tips on energy use aid houses of worship by Sara Beane Special to The Star Rabbi Moti Rieber of Overland Park is on a mission to help area churches [...]
Thanks to you – we did it!
January 8, 2013 – 11:50 am
Thanks to everyone who donated to Kansas IPL’s fall fundraising campaign. Thanks to your generous support, we met and exceeded the amount we needed to match our challenge grant. Thanks to you we will be able to continue and expand the work we’re doing: organizing faith communities and helping them lower their carbon footprint; talking [...]
Please make your year end donation to Kansas IPL!
November 19, 2012 – 1:53 pm
Please click here to make your tax-deductible contribution to Kansas IPL. In 2012, we saw: Drought covering half the nation (and causing disaster declarations in 103 of Kansas’ 105 counties), Record melting of Arctic ice, Blistering summer temperatures all across the country, and An unprecedented “superstorm” on the east coast, leading to thousands of people put [...]
Kansas Environmental Forum at K-State sponsored by Kansas IPL and KNRC
October 12, 2012 – 12:15 pm
Kansas Environmental Forum: Making Connections, Growing the Grassroots Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012, 9:00 – 3:30 Fiedler Auditorium, KSU Engineering Complex 17th St. and College Heights Rd., Manhattan, KS Free Registration! Join the Kansas Natural Resource Council, Kansas Interfaith Power & Light, and our partners at a conference celebrating the Kansas environment! Working in the environmental [...]