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 [...]
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 [...]
In Manchester on Saturday 1 October, the eve of the Conservative Party Conference, Tearfund, CAFOD and Christian Aid are holding a ecumenical service followed by a procession and candlelit vigil to reflect on the Government’s ‘Greenest Government Ever’ promise.
HOME is a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. It is breathtaking and inspirational – and has at its core a goal of inspiring people to act on what they see. Available in full on YouTube for free it makes for a great resource for groups to use and to screen themselves.
Get help and support to develop a climate action group with your church, youth group or community group and help fight climate change in your community.
Earth Hour, organised by WWF, is a simple idea that has rapidly gained global support. For just one hour everyone is asked to switched off their lights and make a symbolic stand against climate change. It started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia, and last year saw hundreds of millions of people switching off in the [...]
It is not yet widely recognised that there are spiritual issues at stake over climate change. Many people seem to consider it all as a technical or political problem. They look anxiously into the future for a piece of geo-engineering that will save us, or campaign furiously to get politicians to act. Yet the environmental issues that we face are so serious and so multi-faceted that they demand nothing less than an inner transformation.
Photo credit: Dushaun I’m signing up to the Carbon Fast for Lent this year. It is a 40-day journey towards a lighter carbon footprint, with simple energy saving actions each day, and this year it’s being organised jointly by the Church of England and Tearfund. Lent is a time of year when it’s really good to [...]
Denmark – Copenhagen – The Little Mermaid, originally uploaded by michael_and_sarah. WE love talking about the weather – and that weather has been leaving us all cold recently – just the way the climate talks in Copenhagen left many of us. The news from the climate summit was, shall we say, ‘underwhelming’. Last minute wrangling [...]
Yesterday there was some MASSIVELY good news announced. Ed Miliband produced an incentive for householders to embrace green living, making it affordable to turn off the gas and oil and switch to solar and wind energy. It is called the Renewable Heat Incentive and is a world first. The details are here. I have been [...]
Would you like to know more about Climate Change? We have invited Dr. Martin Hodson, an environmental biologist, author and lecturer to come and give a seminar followed by a question and answer session on Sunday 31st January at 10am at ‘The Barn’, Chilton. This will be followed by refreshments and a Eucharist for those [...]
The debate about climate change is not whether the temperature of the earth is rising, it is about whether humans have caused this and whether humans can thus reverse it. In other words is it a natural phenomenon that we have to accept, or not? A few weeks ago ‘The Express’ published an article with [...]
