How can you combine growing your own delicious food, making new friends, learning a natural growing method, and the opportunity to reconnect at a deep, spiritual level with creation? The answer is Grow Zones, a community growing project.
With darker evenings and the colder weather we are all likely to be picking up the car keys more often, so here we highlight a few ideas to help you explore making your car use greener.
Every year the clocks get set in a way that means we get less light in our lives, sleeping through the sunlit mornings while we use expensive, polluting electric light in the evenings. The Lighter Later campaign is calling to move the clocks forward by one hour so that we are awake when the sun [...]
This week is Energy Saving Week – there are lots of resoruces available on the Energy Saving Trust website, including a free online home energy check, which could save you up to £250 a year on your bills: Free home energy check. The whole site is a wealth of information on energy saving for your [...]
The Stop Climate Chaos Coalition is calling for people across the UK to connect with others in their communities on 5th-6th November and lobby their MPs. People are invited to come together for the Big Climate Connection, and show MPs that people from all walks of life – from environment to development groups, from unions [...]
The start of term can see lots of people moving into rented accommodation – and living in a rented property can be a frustrating experience if you want to stop wasting energy. After all it’s unlikely you’re going to want to install loft insulation or replace the inefficient heating system at your own expense. Help [...]
The Transition Network reports that a recent survey of allotment waiting lists in England has found that the average waiting list has increased from 49 to 59 people waiting per 100 plots (a 20% increase) and there is no sign that the increase in demand for allotments is slowing down. An Early Day Motion has been [...]
Walk to work instead of taking a car? Buy only Fairtrade products where they’re available? Campaign for climate justice for poor countries? Pray for the upcoming climate negotiations? If you could do one thing to help create a more sustainable earth where we’d eradicated extreme poverty, what would that one thing be? That’s the question [...]
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 the [...]
Plans are on to make Sunday 10th October a global day of doing, with thousands of practical carbon-cutting activities all over the world. The 10:10 campaign has teamed up with 350.org to co-ordinate 10:10:10 to be the biggest-ever day of positive action on climate change. The aim is to see, “thousands of individuals, families, schools, businesses [...]
A little patch of earth. A quiet spot to reflect. A view that stops you in your tracks.
Where do you encounter God through creation?
During September the Diocese of Oxford will be running Inspired by Creation. A chance to share with others how creation inspires you.
Today we mark Midsummer – a time to be grateful for the daylight long.
O you Sun and daylight long, bless your Maker…
