It was May, the world was in bloom and so was Sara Spoonheim. She had every reason to be. As deputy director of Chicago-based Faith in Place, an interfaith environmental organization, she had just come off an exhilarating week. And she sat in the spring sunshine to talk about it.
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Sara Spoonheim
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For Spoonheim, the sun is more than a welcome source of warmth after a long Chicago winter. It’s a vital energy source. She helped her congregation, Resurrection Lutheran, be the first in Chicago to go solar and a suburban mosque become the first in the nation to have solar panels.
Spoonheim had spent most of the previous week in Washington, D.C., at the annual conference of Interfaith Power & Light, an organization with which Faith in Place is affiliated. IPL, which is active in 29 states, uses education and advocacy to mobilize a religious response to global warming.
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