Food for Thought
Food production, packaging and transport make up a big part of our carbon footprint, and many of us are interested in changing our eating habits to help the environment. It can be difficult to know where to begin, so in Read More …
Category: Low Carbon Commitment Forum
Reflection on No Planet B…
Central England Quakers recently hosted an ecumenical event exploring how we can work together to move to a low carbon future. On Saturday July 29th 72 people gathered at the Quaker rooms in Bull Street under the theme of “No Read More …
Sutton Coldfield climate change meeting with Andrew Mitchell MP
Sutton Coldfield Quaker meeting house was full on 22 November for a meeting with local MP, Andrew Mitchell. Update: this meeting recently received coverage in a Sutton Coldfield local newspaper. Read More …
Treading Lightly
Several Central England Quakers were very involved with Footsteps’ recent interfaith event ‘Tread Lightly on this Earth – Exploring Food, Faith & Living Sustainably’ Read More …
Report on IPCC Launch Event
Chris Martin, Clerk to Central England Quakers’ Low Carbon Committment Forum, reports on a national event which highlighted the latest research and ideas for action on climate change. This report is an account of my personal experience of the European Read More …
Quaker scientist has papers published on greenhouse gases and climate change
Quaker scientist, Richard Tuckett, has just had two peer-reviewed papers published on the science of greenhouse gases and climate change. The first paper is based on Richard’s academic career as a high-resolution gas-phase spectroscopist studying upper atmosphere ‘greenhouse gas’ molecules. Read More …
‘A Future for All…’ conference
‘A Future for All … Implementing the Christian imperative to care for our World’, held on Saturday 14 July 2018, was the first ecumenical Eco Church conference and was organised by the Central England Quaker Low Carbon Commitment forum and Read More …
Coventry Quakers Forest Garden
Over a period of 18 months, Coventry Quakers cleaned up some neglected ground in front of their meeting house and planted a garden on forest garden principles. It includes a wide range of tasty and nutritious plants for foraging.
Links between the Environment and our Quaker Testimonies
In one forum meeting we used string in a practical exercise making links between a sustainable environment and Quaker testimonies to peace, equality, simplicity and truth. Links friends made during this activity included how a sustainable life style involves living Read More …
Interfaith Exhibitions & Conversations event
Forum members organised an Interfaith Exhibitions and Conversations event in the run up to the Paris Climate summit in November 2015. Members of the different faith communities in Birmingham each presented a view of the environment from their faith perspective, Read More …