Climate change and Christianity: Some Chattanooga area belie

Among the only faith-based groups in the state that focuses on climate change, Tennessee Interfaith Power and Light in Knoxville has a single part-time paid worker, Dan Joranko. He's pushing congregations to apply for the Cool Congregations Challenge -- an effort to encourage religious groups to be "sustainable role models in response to climate change."

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