Amy Cameron from the carbon cutting organisation 10:10 shares in this post how some schools in the Diocese of Oxford are trail-blazing a funding model that may be one of few ways community buildings can install solar in the future, and how you can help!
Let Live: A bike ride, climate change and the CIA is the new novel about climate change by local author John Madeley. Through the eyes of an environment journalist on a bike it deals with the impact of climate change and the powerful interests that don’t want people to know who is causing it. Cycling [...]
We talked about the proposed changes to the government Feed-in-Tariff recently, but how are the changes affecting church based projects on the ground in the diocese? Share you experiences and responses here in the comments. We are hearing of community solar PV projects that are now in serious financial jeopardy because of the proposed changes [...]
To register a school visit: www.earthingfaith.org/school-energy-pilot The Diocese of Oxford and the national CofE Shrinking the Footprint campaign are offering churches (and CofE schools) in the diocese the opportunity to use, for free, energy monitoring software that will help track and reduce their energy use. The scheme is partnering with sMeasure, an easy-to-use web-based energy [...]
In December UN climate talks will continue in Durban, South Africa. The profile of the talks is lower than in the past, but the results will be even more important. The Stop Climate Chaos Coalition has resources to help groups organise events between 26 November and 3 December, and can be anything from an African [...]
On Thursday 1st December 2011 the newly formed Low Carbon Hub will be launched at Oxford Town Hall. The Oxfordshire based Low Carbon Hub is a partnership of the Community Action Group network, ClimateXChange and local authorities who will be providing mentoring and other services to more than 100 communities to help them reduce emissions [...]
The Diocese of Oxford has published an information sheet to introduce how heat pumps could be used to heat your church. It will help you assess the suitability of your church and provides a list of things to consider as you develop a project to install heat pump technology and benefit from the government Renewable [...]
The Diocese of Oxford has published an information sheet to introduce how biomass could be used to heat churches. It aims to help you assess the suitability of your church and provides a list of things to consider as you develop a project to install a biomass boiler and benefit from the government Renewable Heat [...]
Here Claire continues from her post sharing some ideas and resources about how we can share stuff and work together… Read part 1 here More and more websites are being developed that are enabling people to share and work together. And the best are bringing people together in real life too. In Part 1, I looked [...]
Here Claire Bryden shares some ideas and resources about how we can share stuff and work together… So you want to simplify your lifestyle, and reach out to your neighbours and local community. Maybe you want to learn a new skill, or your drill has broken and you don’t want to splash out on a [...]
This week the Government announced comprehensive review of the Feed-in tariffs (FITs) scheme, which makes proposals that would affect any Solar PV installations from now. The headline change is that a new tariff would be introduced for schemes up to 4kW in size of 21.0p/kWh – down from the current 43.3p/kWh. For further details of [...]
Chris Sunderland from EarthAbbey reflects on the recent harvest festival celebrations he has been involved in. Why did many people say it felt so good to celebrate in this way? Part of the attraction was that it was something we had done ourselves. It felt raw and approachable. There was no hype, or hard sell. There were no celebrities, no big egos. We were just human beings who had done something.
