Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Cut the energy bills of your church and save money

church thumb (small)

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 [...]

Your Church and Heat Pumps

Your Church & Heat Pumps - thumb2

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 [...]

Your church and Woodfuel (Biomass)

Woodfuel thumb

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 [...]

Feed-in Tariffs Review

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 [...]

Diocese of Oxford Environment Map

map

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?

Your Church and Solar PV

Solar info cover

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 [...]

connecting faith to the earth Follow us Facebook Twiter RSS