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Creation Tide 2010

Each year Creation Tide is celebrated from the 1st September to the second Sunday in October. Here we provide links to resources to help you mark Creation Tide.

Creation Tide 2010 Creation Tide 2010

Inspired garden

This is the little patch of earth that inspires me - my garden - it is a place that brings me a connection to our Creator that I can struggle to find elsewhere. Where is your place of inspiration?

Inspired garden Inspired garden

What resources would you recommend?

Hello Earthing Faith reader, We are planning to do a series of posts on the Earthing Faith website on resources that may be helpful for people as they connect their faith to the environment. These resources… [more]

What resources would you recommend? What resources would you recommend?

Greening your church building

Natalie Merry tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the carbon footprint of church buildings are also often the simplest.

Greening your church building Greening your church building

How wild is your churchyard?

Manage, don't mow your churchyard and give space to endangered plant species. That is the message from Shrinking the Footprint, the CofE's national environmental campaign

How wild is your churchyard? How wild is your churchyard?

Creation Stations

Creation Stations is a resource designed to let the story of creation be told and experienced on its own terms and to help people regain a sense of lost wonder.

Creation Stations Creation Stations

Car clubs – a way to reduce carbon emissions and congestion

Explore starting a community car club in your area? Perhaps you could offer a parking place on your church's property?

Car clubs – a way to reduce carbon emissions and congestion Car clubs – a way to reduce carbon emissions and congestion

Grow Zones – reconnecting with the land

EarthAbbey have been trying to find meaningful ways to reconnect with the land. They came up with a very simple idea they have called Grow Zones.

Grow Zones – reconnecting with the land Grow Zones – reconnecting with the land

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Creation Tide 2010

Creation Flourishing - a time for celebration and care

Each year Creation Tide is celebrated from the 1st September to the second Sunday in October. Churches and groups are invited to use this time of the year to focus on, and promote the preservation of, Creation. Here we provide links to resources to help you mark Creation Tide.

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Inspired garden

Inspired garden

This is the little patch of earth that inspires me – my garden. It is a place of joy shared with family and friends – and yet is also where I can spend time alone – and it is a place that brings me a connection to our Creator that I can struggle to find elsewhere. As we launch Inspired by Creation – where is your place of inspiration?

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Yew protection

I was recently at Lambeth Palace for a day meeting with other green fanatics and agencies. These included Russell Ball from ‘The Ancient Yew Group‘. Apparently, Veteran Yews are 350-1000 years old, and Ancient Yews are 1000-5000 years old, which by any standards is staggeringly old. Yew trees have had a troubled life in

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Bound Earth - Covers

We are planning to do a series of posts on the Earthing Faith website on resources that may be helpful for people as they connect their faith to the environment. Are there resources you have used that you would like to share with others or recommend?

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Biodiversity and Shrinking the Footprint

A couple of weeks ago I attended Lambeth Palace for the annual ‘Shrinking the Footprint’ day (The Church of England’s Environmental Campaign). They have a new website which I would recommend visiting. This year we are particularly looking at the subject of biodiversity. Estimates vary, but it is thought that currently we are losing

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