Building Community, Caring for Creation
TXIPL membership is a great way for you and your congregation to join with other communities of faith in caring for creation. Your membership supports the work of TXIPL in educating congregations throughout Texas about creation stewardship.
By joining TXIPL, you are helping to create opportunities for congregations to weave environmental concern into their study and worship. For instance, in October congregations will have the opportunity to participate in screenings and discussion of of An Inconvenient Truth and other global warming films.
Your payment is a tax-deductible charitable contribution. TXIPL will buy the number of RECs that you designate through your membership level and retire the underlying tradeable renewable energy certificates. You will receive both a certificate acknowledging your contribution and a notice confirming that your RECs have been retired.
Through your TXIPL membership you are:
- Clearing the air, offsetting carbon dioxide and other emissions from regular power plants
- Conserving nonrenewable fossil fuels - oil, coal and natural gas
- Boosting energy diversity, independence and sustainability
- Developing a market for renewable energy
Congregational Membership
Your congregation can offset its carbon emissions! The electricity you use in worship, religious education, fellowship and other activities generates global warming pollution, but by purchasing RECs you can reduce global warming pollution AND provide an example for your members and the larger community.
Congregations that join TXIPL will receive promotional materials to help educate their members, and are welcome to use the TXIPL logo on their websites and in print materials. Congregational members will be listed on the TXIPL website.
How Many RECs Should Your Congregation Purchase?
Congregational electricity consumption varies widely based on building size and age as well as other factors. TXIPL has developed two options for congregations to offset their emissions.
Congregational TXIPL membership includes 4 RECs. Member congregations can purchase additional RECs at $10 apiece.
Great Deal for Congregations: Adopt-a-Watt Program
Linking your congregation’s REC purchases to weekly worship is a great way to emphasize the importance of creation stewardship to your faith.
Through the Adopt-a-Watt Program, your congregation commits to purchase one REC per week for a year, and then enlists individuals and families to “adopt” a week (similar to the way many congregations handle flowers and other weekly expenses of worship).
Congregations that participate in Adopt-a-Watt will receive an Adopt-a-Watt sign-up calendar in addition to the other materials mentioned above.
Ready to go the extra mile? Find out how many RECs it would take to offset all of your congregation’s carbon emissions.
Consult the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “carbon calculator” to determine your congregation’s total emissions. Then, TXIPL staff will help you determine how many RECs you would need to offset your emissions. If you prefer, you can choose to offset a percentage of the total.
Download the printable Texas Interfaith Power and Light Membership Form
| TXIPL Congregational Membership $60/yr | |
| Additional RECs $10 apiece | |
| Adopt-a-Watt Program $450/yr |