People and institutions of faith can make a difference through their actions to conserve energy and through the purchase of green energy. But we can also make a difference by speaking up for policies that will ensure a just, sustainable future for all of Creation.

The congregations in GW-IPL's network have many opportunities to weigh in on both national policies and the policies of state, local, and regional bodies in the greater Washington area.

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Julie Bruns (Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill in Alexandria, VA) testifies to the Air Board against a proposed coal plant in Wise County, Virginia in July 2008. Nadia Janjua (DC Green Muslims), who also testified, wrote afterwards: “Giving my testimony was an absolute high, there’s no other way to say it. A little taste of activism for an issue that hit home so hard served to motivate me … [and was] a reminder that each person really, truly, can start to make a difference just by themselves.”

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