A hands-on climate justice project your faith community can do: assembling solar lights for families living without electricity.
Picture finishing your homework by the light of a kerosene lamp. More than 660 million of our neighbors around the world have no light switch on the wall. Hundreds of millions more do have a connection, but it is too unreliable to count on. Kerosene is expensive, dangerous, and it fills small rooms with smoke and the atmosphere with heat-trapping climate pollution. If you have ever wondered where climate justice meets plain human dignity, this is one of those places.
On Tuesday, November 17 at 7:00 p.m., MassIPL and JCAN-MA host SolarBuddy for an online webinar about energy justice and how to lead a solar light workshop of your own. Join us on Zoom from wherever you are to learn about a hands-on climate justice project your congregation can actually do together, right in your own fellowship hall, social hall, or classroom, with your youth group and the green team working side by side.
What we’ll cover in the webinar
- What energy poverty really is, and what it looks like in a family’s daily life
- How a small solar light can change things for children and families, told through stories from the people who hand them out on the ground
- What it looks like to host a solar light assembly, where people of all ages build lights together and write notes to the children who will receive them
- How all of this connects to clean energy work here in Massachusetts
Help light the way
St. Dunstan’s in Dover is hosting a solar light workshop this February, and your congregation is invited to host one of its own. The webinar will offer ideas for building a solar light project into Hanukkah, Advent, Earth Month in 2027, or any season of your year together. Come learn how you can help light the way with us.