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Season for Creation - Devon Churches Green Action highlight the joys of local produce
8th September 2010
Members of DCGA made fresh apple juice at the Exeter Green Fair on Cathedral Green on 4th September. Local apples from Exeter and West Devon were pulped and pressed to make litres of high quality juice, which was offered to dozens of passers by as a taster of how good local products can be.
With growing concern about the contribution of carbon emissions from the production and transportation of food, and their impact on global warming, the need for sourcing produce closer to where we live is increasingly important.
As part of the Season of Creation, a display on food highlighted the importance of growing more sustainable food in our communities - through gardens, farms and community projects. Devon has growing numbers of community schemes, including a Real Food Store proposed for Exeter and gardening support schemes in Totnes and Tavistock. In many cases churches are also involved in these and new food share initiatives such as a Food Bank in Crediton and a charity business to distribute food that would otherwise be destroyed to community groups in the Plymouth area are being developed all the time.
Copies of the prayer card on the Season of Creation were also distributed at the Fair.
A booklet on Food and Faith is to be released by DCGA in the coming months. Meanwhile, a short ecumenical service entitled Our Daily Bread will take place at the JPC Chapel in Exeter Cathedral on Saturday 25th September at 12 noon.
Further details: Martyn Goss (01392-294924)
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Inspired by Creation Competition launched
2nd September 2010
Launched yesterday by the Diocese of Oxford Inspired by Creation is a competition to mark the season of Creation Tide and an opportunity to share the place where you find inspiration and a connection with God.
It might be a little patch of earth you work on. A quiet spot where you spend time in thought. A view that stops you in your tracks. You can enter the competition by sharing a photograph and/or a poem/prayer that captures your special place of inspiration. The deadline is midnight on the 30th September.
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This year's St Francis of Assisi Lecture: Climate and covenant
27th August 2010
The event is hosted by the London Churches Environmental Network and the speaker this year will be Rt Revd David Atkinson, assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Southwark. The lecture will begin at 6.30 pm on Wednesday 6th October at Methodist Central Hall Chapel. Read more ...
Latest on the Renewables Obligation consultation
27th August 2010
The Renewables Obligation (RO) is currently the main financial support scheme for renewable electricity in the UK. It is being revised with the aim of coming into effect on 1st April 2011.
Following the launch of the Consultation on the Renewables Obligation Order 2011 last month, The Department of Energy and Climate Change have today published a new draft of the Renewables Obligation Order 2011. The draft Order is available to download from the DECC website.
The Statutory Consultation on the Renewables Obligation Order 2011 closes on 19 October.
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Read July's issue of Renewing Creation
24th August 2010
Latest from the newsletter for Christians in Newcastle and Northumberland.
This month including:- newly established Newcastle City Council's Bee Steering Group and call for action on the Campaign for Wool.
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Environment Agency launch Environmental Pioneer Awards
20th August 2010
The awards have been launched to recognise those organisations who:
- are leading the way on environmental performance;
- are pioneering new ways to reduce emissions and pollution;
- have introduced sustainable business practices;
- consistently go further than they are required to do by the law.
DEFRA consults on Natural Environment white paper
9th August 2010
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is asking for views on their new white paper by 30th October. Read more ...
Ring the bells for biodiversity
2nd August 2010
On 22 September Heads of State will assemble at the United Nations in New York to discuss the biodiversity crisis and the Secretariat of the
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is encouraging the ringing of bells all over the world as an urgent call to rouse the world to action. Read more ...
2nd Shrinking the Footprint Conference June 2010
1st July 2010
The Bishop of London the Rt Revd Richard Chartres has planted a yew tree in the gardens of Lambeth Palace to celebrate the UN International Year of Biodiversity. The tree was donated by the Conservation Foundation which has launched a campaign to find the 7,000 Millennium Yews ten years on, many of which were planted in churchyards. Read more ...
Growing organically conference September 2010
25th June 2010
Using Church Land as a Model for Environmental Change, September 18, Birmingham.
This conference will cover the importance of church land management. It will also give practical examples of projects and open up opportunities to see what conservation potential church land may hold.
The main speakers will be Sir Ghillean Prance and Bishop James Jones, followed by informative and interactive workshops. Read more ...
ECEN Assembly reports June 2010
25th June 2010
Read the latest from the European Christian Environmental Network assembly in Prague Read more ...
Birds and the Bees at Lambeth
22nd May 2010
Who was on the throne when the fig tree (pictured) was planted? How many fruits grow in the garden?* Just two of the questions for visitors following the Archbishop's nature trail and quiz at today's Open Garden event at Lambeth Palace designed to reveal the wealth of wildlife in the historic gardens and grounds. Read the full press release Read more ...
Earthing faith in Oxford Diocese
15th April 2010
Two new web-based initiative with news and reflections. Read more ...
Cherish your churchyard
8th March 2010
Thousands of growing churches are preparing to celebrate Cherishing Churchyards Week this June as part of the UN's International Year of Biodiversity.
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C of E's Seven Year 'Church and Earth' Climate Change Action Plan
26th January 2010
The Church of England has launched its environmental strategy for the next seven years, in Windsor in November 2009, as global faith leaders and UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, gather today to discuss commitments on climate change, before the world's political leaders meet in Copenhagen in December.
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Treading lightly in 2010 - news from around the country
21st January 2010
Renewing Creation - news from Newcastle and Northumbria Read more ...
Cathedrals and Climate Change Conference
18th November 2009
Held at Southwark Cathedral Monday November 2. Programme and copies of presentations to download here.
For details of the Shrinking the Footprint June Lambeth Conference and the CofE's Seven Year Plan click on news items at the bottom of the page
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Church of England's Seven Year Plan
29th October 2009
This plan is a statement of the Church of England's beliefs, activities and ambitions relating to climate change and environmental action over the next seven years. Read more ...
