by Rachel Westwood.
100 Ways to Save the Planet
To help us find more suggestions for how we can best help save the planet (including reducing our energy use, helping biodiversity, reducing stuff we buy and reusing things we have) we’ve got an additional resource - 100 cards with a range of suggestions. Hopefully there’ll be something to suit everyone if you’d like to use them, please let me know.
The tip for this week is to “Get Crafty” - making Christmas gifts for example rather than buying something new. This could be cooking something (there are lots of recipe sites to help, including https://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/foods-and-recipes and https://oursouthend.wordpress.com for recipes tray are low cost or use ingredients you have in stock) and there are great craft ideas on You Tube and Tik Tok as well as at our family services. If you know a good site or have a great craft idea, let us know.
Where are we Now? |
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We are proud to say that we have achieved the ‘Silver’ award level of the A’Rocha scheme. We intend to build on this and achieve Gold by recycling more, encouraging our church members and other churches to follow environmentally sensitive policies, and looking after our site (the churchyard) to promote ecological diversity and the wellbeing of the natural world. As part of this, we are thrilled to say that we were able to host the YCCN pilgrimage to the Glasgow Climate
Here’s our newly planted native (organic!) Yew hedge and our bee-friendly wildflower area which is showing good results!Summit!
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We have “recycling” boxes in the entrance to the Church and Hall where you can leave old mobile phones, stamps, spectacles and printer cartridges! These can often be sold to raise funds for the needy or passed to charities who can use them. We also can help with the recycling of many other things - contact us if you would like to help our Recycling efforts as we do need a new Coordinator!
We also try to feed the birds, encourage native wildflowers to grow in our grounds, and welcome people to use our space to relax - but please do so responsibly and do not leave litter! That’s what the bins and recycling boxes are for.