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 [...]
Every year we encourage church communities to observe Creation Tide (aka a Time for Creation) and in 2011 it runs for the five weeks from 1 September to 4 October, which, with the downtime of summer holidays, may mean you need to start planning early. Here we summarise the CTBI’s 2011 resource ‘Our Daily Bread’.
Switch to green energy! The Diocese of Oxford has negotiated schemes with two of the UK’s leading green energy providers that make switching to green electricity easy and make donations to the Church of England’s Climate Justice Fund.
New book ‘For Creed and Creation: A simple guide to greening your church’ is now available and is full of practical suggestions for making your church more energy efficient. With simple ideas and advice from the way the building is run, to how rubbish is recycled and the light switches used, the guide will help to reduce bills and put your church on the right track to tackling your carbon footprint.
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.
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 Story of Stuff started as a 20-minute on-line film that explores the often hidden environmental and social consequences of our love affair with ‘stuff’. Since then the project has developed new films looking at The Story of Bottled Water, and The Story of Cap & Trade. They are all accesible introductions to complex problems, [...]
I never planned to get passionate about simple lifestyle. I’ve basically stumbled into the role… But after five years of co-running the Breathe Network I find myself launching a conspiracy to transform our way of living.
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.
