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 …
Category: Quaker Projects
Junior Peacemakers Bus Poster 2018
Love, Live & Forgive this Christmas This is the Junior Peacemakers message being shared on 70 buses across Birmingham this Christmas for four weeks from the 10th December 2018. ‘Junior Peacemakers’ is a collaboration between two of our projects Peacemakers Read More …
Could your meeting be a ‘Refill Station’?
A message from ecobirmingham (formerly Northfield Ecocentre) In the UK 7.7 billion plastic water bottles are used each year, with the average person in the UK now using 150 plastic water bottles every year – that’s more than three a 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 …
Green Lens photography project
A message from ecobirmingham (formerly Northfield Ecocentre) about a photography project for young people: Green Lens is a project that invites young people across Birmingham to voice the green issues that matter to them, locally or globally, through the medium 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 …
Look out for Junior Peacemakers’ message on the buses
Show Someone you Care: Share a Smile 😀 Throughout 2017 Peacemakers (West Midlands Quaker Peace Education Project) and Peace Hub have collaborated to run a series of Junior Peacemakers workshops for schools. How can we build peace in Birmingham? …was Read More …
Peacemakers Celebrate their 30th Anniversary
Children’s Peace Summit 2017. Peacemakers (West Midlands Quaker Peace Education Project) held a Children’s Peace Summit on 21st September 2017 to mark the 30th anniversary of Peacemakers and International Peace Day. Children from 8 primary schools in the West Midlands Read More …
New theme at Peace Hub: Our Shared Environment
One of our branches, Peace Hub have announced their new theme for autumn/winter 2017: Our Shared Environment: let’s celebrate and protect the places we love. The Hub uses themes to highlight topics for which Quakers feel called to put our Read More …