“God’s World”: an evening with the Bishop of Reading exploring why and how to become an EcoCongregation. At St John and St Stephen’s Church, 121-147 Orts Road, Reading, RG1 3JN Thursday 17th November, 7.30 – 9.30 pm. Free entry, open to all denominations. Bishop Andrew will speaking about his experiences of the impact of climate [...]
Pilgrimage can often lead to us to connecting to the world in new ways. Be it appreciating God’s creation in deeper ways or connecting with a deeper call to live the spiritual life. The Diocese of Oxford has launched the Pilgrim Project to encourage the spirit of pilgrimage. What could you do in your area? How can the spirit of pilgrimage encourage us in caring for creation?
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’.
This online map shows many of the environment based projects and groups active in the Diocese of Oxford – from eco church building projects to biodiversity in churchyards and local community groups focussed on environmental issues. Why not find one near you or add your own?
The Green Flag Community Award is given to community maintained sites, such as woodlands, allotments, churchyards and public gardens have all been winners. Could your church community be eligible to apply?
“If I had known what I was taking on, I doubt if I would have started….” Here Richard Riggs shares about Abingdon Hydro – a community project to generate hydroelectric power from the Thames at Abingdon.
Get Generating: A Renewable Energy Guide for Rural Communities is a new resource that gives an overview of community based renewable energy options. The guide, produced by The Commission for Rural Communities (CRC) in partnership with Action for Communities in Rural England (ACRE), the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and the National Association of [...]
The Diocese of Oxford has produced an information sheet for people exploring how solar energy could be used to generate electricity in church buidlings. The sheet will help people assess the suitability of their church and provides a list of things to consider when exploring installing solar panels and benefiting from the government Feed-In-Tariff. Download [...]
Lord Stern will give the annual Dorchester Lecture this year at Dorchester Abbey on Thursday 16 June 2011. The lecture will be entitled ‘Building a low-carbon world: the sixth industrial revolution’, and will argue that we need a fresh industrial revolution based on new forms of energy, and will be followed by question and discussion.
Could your environment project benefit fromk £2,000? TOE2 is a new venture developed by the Oxfordshire Rural Community Council (ORCC) to drive the strategic direction of community environmental initiatives in Oxfordshire. Working with a wide range of organisations, including the Landfill Communities Fund, TOE2 will make funds of up to £2000 available to environmental projects [...]
Energyshare is a new initiative to help people get together to save energy and generate their own energy. It has been launched with a £500,000 fund to help projects get started – and there is a further £3 million committed for future rounds of funding. Energyshare is looking to fund projects that aim to save [...]
The Big Tree Plant is a campaign to encourage people and communities to plant more trees in England’s towns, cities and neighbourhoods. It is a partnership bringing together national tree-planting organisations and local groups working with Defra and the Forestry Commission to plant trees throughout England. Anybody can get involved by planting and caring for [...]
