Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light was incorporated in the State of Kentucky on September 5, 2007. We are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Contact Information
Staff
Board of Directors
National Affiliation
Covenant Communities
Participating Communities
KIPL In The News
Our address:
P.O. Box 5084
Louisville, Kentucky 40255
(502) 210-8920
Kentucky IPL staff:
Executive Director, Tim Darst
Tim Darst recently gave up his career in accounting and dedicated his life to care for God's creation. Tim and his wife live in a solar-powered house, grow a lot of their own food and are regular bicycle and bus commuters. He is a founding member of the Company of St. Angela, a contemplative congregation of the faithful associated with the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville. Tim was awarded the YMCA SafePlace Joyce Skees Volunteer Award, and the 2012 Green Building/Operation Brightside Acorn Award. He is active with Project Warm, the Food Literacy Project, the University of Louisville Sustainable Operations Committee, GRASS, St. William's Church Environmental Concerns Committee, and the Passionist Earth & Spirit Center. Email Tim
Mark Steiner, Outreach and Project Director
Mark Steiner has presented classes, workshops, lectures, and retreats on Environmental Spirituality, Creation Spirituality, and the Universe Story since 1991. He is a co-founder and director of Cultivating Connections a Louisville, Kentucky based grassroots not-for-profit with a focus on "Nurturing and Celebrating Our Connections with Each Other and with Our World". There he has coordinated a wide variety of events including four EarthSpirit Rising Conferences.
From 2006 - 2009 Mark served as the Director of Programming for the Center for Interfaith Relations where he coordinated interfaith programs and developed the annual Festival of Faiths' environmental components bringing in guests such as Rev. Fletcher Harper of Green Faith and Mary Evelyn Tucker of the Forum on Ecology and Religion.
In addition, Mark serves as an official facilitator of the Work that Reconnects (as articulated by Buddhist scholar and author Joanna Macy) and the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium. He has been invited to present at various local houses of worship including Unity of Louisville, Edenside Christian Church, Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church, and Covenant Community Church.
Mark is a sponsor, coordinator and occasional facilitator for the Louisville Sustainability Forum and serves on the Board of Directors of The Peace Education Program Email Mark
Greening West Louisville and Cool Congregations Program Coordinator, Aaron Tornes
Aaron is a marketing graduate of The Ohio State Universities Fisher College of Business. e is a LEED Certified Energy Auditor After working for nine years in the fine-dining industry, Aaron became interested in the local farmers providing high quality food to restaurants with low carbon footprints. He currently volunteers with local food movements including Breaking New Grounds and he also volunteers with Kentucky Refugee Ministries on securing food for their annual Global Gourmet fund raiser. Aaron is passionate about creating and discovering sustainable energy and food systems in the Louisville area.Email Aaron
Board of Directors:
Rev. Jerry Cappel, Church of the Ascension, Frankfort
Rev. David Garvin,St. Paul's United Methodist Church
Harrison Kirby, St. Xavier High School
Morvey Manshadi, Bahá'ís of Louisville
Rev. Joe Mitchell, Passionist Earth & Spirit Center
Rabbi Gaylia Rooks, The Temple
Tobby Spalding, Center for Interfaith Relations, Drepung Gomang Insitute
Sr. Joetta Veeneman, PBVM, Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
Regional Coordinators: John Patterson,MD, KIPL Bluegrass Regional Coordinator
Susan Harnett Webb, KIPL
Bowling Green Regional Coordinator
Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light is an affiliate of
the Regeneration Project
Covenant Communities:
Highland Baptist Church, Louisville
Fourth Avenue United Methodist Church, Louisville
St. Matthews Episcopal Church, Louisville
James Lees Presbyterian Church, Louisville
St. William Catholic Church, Louisville
The Temple, Louisville
United Methodist Church, Kentucky Annual Conference Justice Team
First Christian Church, Owensboro
Jeff Street Baptist Community at Liberty, Louisville
Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Louisville
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Louisville
Calvary Episcopal Church, Louisville
St. Martha's Episcopal Church, Lexington
Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church, Louisville
Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church, Louisville
Participating Communities:
Anamchara Faith Community, Louisville
Anchorage Presbyterian Church
Assumption High School, Louisville
Bardstown Road Presbyterian, Louisville
Bridgeport Christian Church (DOC), Frankfort
Cathedral of the Assumption, Louisville
Cave City United Methodist Church, Cave City
Central Christian, Lexington
Central Presbyterian Church, Louisville
Chapel Hill United Church of Christ, Shively
Christ Church United Methodist, Louisville
Church of the Epiphany, Louisville
Clifton Unitarian Church, Louisville
Company of Saint Angela, Louisville
Crescent Hill Baptist Church, Louisville
Crestwood Church DOC, Lexington
Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Frankfort
First Baptist Church, Shepherdsville
First Christian Church (DOC), Frankfort
First Christian Church (DOC), Paris
First Unitarian Church, Louisville
Harvey Browne Memorial Presbyterian, Louisville
Highland Presbyterian Church, Louisville
John Paul II Academy, Louisville
Kaleidoscope Disciples DOC, Georgetown
Lafayette Christian Church, Lexington
Midway Christian Church (DOC)
Morehead United Methodist Church, Morehead
New Life Church, Louisville
North Middletown Christian Church, Paris
Precious Blood Catholic Church, Owensboro
Republican Christian Church (DOC), Cynthiana
River Road Islamic Center, Louisville
St. Bernard Catholic Church, Louisville
St. Clement's Episcopal Church, Louisville
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, Lexington
St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Louisville
St. Francis School, Goshen
St. Gabriel Catholic Church, Louisville
St. James Episcopal, Louisville
St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Louisville
St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Louisville
St. Pius X Catholic, Louisville
Second Baptist Church, Taylorsville
Second Presbyterian Church, Louisville
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
Sisters of Loretto
Twin Pines Christian Church, Lexington
Union Church, Berea
Unity of Louisville
Universal Unitarian Church of Owensboro
Ursuline Sisters of Louisville
Ursuline Sisters of Mount St. Joseph
Wilmore United Methodist
Woodland Christian Church, Lexington
KIPL In The News
Louisville Courier-Journal - April 2008
Louisville Courier-Journal.com - September 2008
Louisville Courier-Journal - March 2009
Louisville Courier-Journal - April 2009
The Record - April 2009
Louisville Courier-Journal - September 15, 2009
WAVE3TV - September 15, 2009
WFPL 89.3 Radio - September 15, 2009
Courier-Journal.com - September 22, 2009
Louisville Courier-Journal - February 22, 2010
Bowling Green Daily News - February 22, 2010
Courier-Journal.com - September 1, 2010
WAVE-TV - September 28, 2010
Louisville Courier-Journal - September 28, 2010
Louisville Courier-Journal.com - January 26, 2011
Louisville Courier-Journal.com - March 27, 2011
Louisville Courier-Journal.com - March 30, 2011
WFPL.org, Louisville - August 23, 2011
WDRB Fox-41, Louisville - October 1, 2011
The Record - October 20, 2011
Louisville Courier-Journal.com - February 4, 2012
WFPL.org, Louisville - February 6, 2012
The Record - May 17, 2012
WFPL.org, Louisville - October 5, 2012
WDRB Fox-41, Louisville - October 6, 2012
WFPL.org, Louisville - October 22, 2012
WFPL.org, Louisville - December 14, 2012
Lexington Herald-Leader, January 24, 2013
dailykos.com January 31, 2013
Louisville Courier-Journal, February 2, 2013
Courier-Journal.com, February 8, 2013
National Catholic Reporter, February 6, 2013
Contact Information
Staff
Board of Directors
National Affiliation
Covenant Communities
Participating Communities
KIPL In The News
Our address:
P.O. Box 5084
Louisville, Kentucky 40255
(502) 210-8920
Kentucky IPL staff:
Executive Director, Tim DarstTim Darst recently gave up his career in accounting and dedicated his life to care for God's creation. Tim and his wife live in a solar-powered house, grow a lot of their own food and are regular bicycle and bus commuters. He is a founding member of the Company of St. Angela, a contemplative congregation of the faithful associated with the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville. Tim was awarded the YMCA SafePlace Joyce Skees Volunteer Award, and the 2012 Green Building/Operation Brightside Acorn Award. He is active with Project Warm, the Food Literacy Project, the University of Louisville Sustainable Operations Committee, GRASS, St. William's Church Environmental Concerns Committee, and the Passionist Earth & Spirit Center. Email Tim
Mark Steiner, Outreach and Project DirectorMark Steiner has presented classes, workshops, lectures, and retreats on Environmental Spirituality, Creation Spirituality, and the Universe Story since 1991. He is a co-founder and director of Cultivating Connections a Louisville, Kentucky based grassroots not-for-profit with a focus on "Nurturing and Celebrating Our Connections with Each Other and with Our World". There he has coordinated a wide variety of events including four EarthSpirit Rising Conferences.
From 2006 - 2009 Mark served as the Director of Programming for the Center for Interfaith Relations where he coordinated interfaith programs and developed the annual Festival of Faiths' environmental components bringing in guests such as Rev. Fletcher Harper of Green Faith and Mary Evelyn Tucker of the Forum on Ecology and Religion.
In addition, Mark serves as an official facilitator of the Work that Reconnects (as articulated by Buddhist scholar and author Joanna Macy) and the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium. He has been invited to present at various local houses of worship including Unity of Louisville, Edenside Christian Church, Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church, and Covenant Community Church.
Mark is a sponsor, coordinator and occasional facilitator for the Louisville Sustainability Forum and serves on the Board of Directors of The Peace Education Program Email Mark
Greening West Louisville and Cool Congregations Program Coordinator, Aaron TornesAaron is a marketing graduate of The Ohio State Universities Fisher College of Business. e is a LEED Certified Energy Auditor After working for nine years in the fine-dining industry, Aaron became interested in the local farmers providing high quality food to restaurants with low carbon footprints. He currently volunteers with local food movements including Breaking New Grounds and he also volunteers with Kentucky Refugee Ministries on securing food for their annual Global Gourmet fund raiser. Aaron is passionate about creating and discovering sustainable energy and food systems in the Louisville area.Email Aaron
Board of Directors:
Rev. Jerry Cappel, Church of the Ascension, Frankfort
Rev. David Garvin,St. Paul's United Methodist Church
Harrison Kirby, St. Xavier High School
Morvey Manshadi, Bahá'ís of Louisville
Rev. Joe Mitchell, Passionist Earth & Spirit Center
Rabbi Gaylia Rooks, The Temple
Tobby Spalding, Center for Interfaith Relations, Drepung Gomang Insitute
Sr. Joetta Veeneman, PBVM, Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
Regional Coordinators: John Patterson,MD, KIPL Bluegrass Regional Coordinator
Susan Harnett Webb, KIPL
Bowling Green Regional Coordinator
Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light is an affiliate of
the Regeneration Project
Covenant Communities:
Highland Baptist Church, Louisville
Fourth Avenue United Methodist Church, Louisville
St. Matthews Episcopal Church, Louisville
James Lees Presbyterian Church, Louisville
St. William Catholic Church, Louisville
The Temple, Louisville
United Methodist Church, Kentucky Annual Conference Justice Team
First Christian Church, Owensboro
Jeff Street Baptist Community at Liberty, Louisville
Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Louisville
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Louisville
Calvary Episcopal Church, Louisville
St. Martha's Episcopal Church, Lexington
Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church, Louisville
Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church, Louisville
Participating Communities:
Anamchara Faith Community, Louisville
Anchorage Presbyterian Church
Assumption High School, Louisville
Bardstown Road Presbyterian, Louisville
Bridgeport Christian Church (DOC), Frankfort
Cathedral of the Assumption, Louisville
Cave City United Methodist Church, Cave City
Central Christian, Lexington
Central Presbyterian Church, Louisville
Chapel Hill United Church of Christ, Shively
Christ Church United Methodist, Louisville
Church of the Epiphany, Louisville
Clifton Unitarian Church, Louisville
Company of Saint Angela, Louisville
Crescent Hill Baptist Church, Louisville
Crestwood Church DOC, Lexington
Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Frankfort
First Baptist Church, Shepherdsville
First Christian Church (DOC), Frankfort
First Christian Church (DOC), Paris
First Unitarian Church, Louisville
Harvey Browne Memorial Presbyterian, Louisville
Highland Presbyterian Church, Louisville
John Paul II Academy, Louisville
Kaleidoscope Disciples DOC, Georgetown
Lafayette Christian Church, Lexington
Midway Christian Church (DOC)
Morehead United Methodist Church, Morehead
New Life Church, Louisville
North Middletown Christian Church, Paris
Precious Blood Catholic Church, Owensboro
Republican Christian Church (DOC), Cynthiana
River Road Islamic Center, Louisville
St. Bernard Catholic Church, Louisville
St. Clement's Episcopal Church, Louisville
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, Lexington
St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Louisville
St. Francis School, Goshen
St. Gabriel Catholic Church, Louisville
St. James Episcopal, Louisville
St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Louisville
St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Louisville
St. Pius X Catholic, Louisville
Second Baptist Church, Taylorsville
Second Presbyterian Church, Louisville
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
Sisters of Loretto
Twin Pines Christian Church, Lexington
Union Church, Berea
Unity of Louisville
Universal Unitarian Church of Owensboro
Ursuline Sisters of Louisville
Ursuline Sisters of Mount St. Joseph
Wilmore United Methodist
Woodland Christian Church, Lexington
KIPL In The News
Louisville Courier-Journal - April 2008
Louisville Courier-Journal.com - September 2008
Louisville Courier-Journal - March 2009
Louisville Courier-Journal - April 2009
The Record - April 2009
Louisville Courier-Journal - September 15, 2009
WAVE3TV - September 15, 2009
WFPL 89.3 Radio - September 15, 2009
Courier-Journal.com - September 22, 2009
Louisville Courier-Journal - February 22, 2010
Bowling Green Daily News - February 22, 2010
Courier-Journal.com - September 1, 2010
WAVE-TV - September 28, 2010
Louisville Courier-Journal - September 28, 2010
Louisville Courier-Journal.com - January 26, 2011
Louisville Courier-Journal.com - March 27, 2011
Louisville Courier-Journal.com - March 30, 2011
WFPL.org, Louisville - August 23, 2011
WDRB Fox-41, Louisville - October 1, 2011
The Record - October 20, 2011
Louisville Courier-Journal.com - February 4, 2012
WFPL.org, Louisville - February 6, 2012
The Record - May 17, 2012
WFPL.org, Louisville - October 5, 2012
WDRB Fox-41, Louisville - October 6, 2012
WFPL.org, Louisville - October 22, 2012
WFPL.org, Louisville - December 14, 2012
Lexington Herald-Leader, January 24, 2013
dailykos.com January 31, 2013
Louisville Courier-Journal, February 2, 2013
Courier-Journal.com, February 8, 2013
National Catholic Reporter, February 6, 2013
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