Palm Oil and Creation Care

Questions for Community Action Preamble: Understanding Our Role in the Palm Oil Crisis The palm oil crisis represents a complex intersection of consumer demand, industrial food production, and environmental impact. As consumers in developed nations, our appetite for affordable, convenient, and shelf-stable processed foods has directly fuelled the expansion of palm oil plantations across the […]
Solar Energy and Our Church

We are all familiar now with the sight of solar panels on roofs around us and may have wondered whether it would be a good idea for us, only to dismiss it as being far too expensive.
My Bills are soaring – What can I do?

Here are the 7 steps you can take to make a start on saving the planet and your bank balance! Contrary to popular belief the energy cap will not cap your bills it’s a cap on “average bills” so if you use more energy than average your bills will be above the prices quoted by […]
My Visit to the Franciscan Friary

On the first weekend of March I joined some of my fellow Christian Climate Action (CCA) members for an inspiring, relaxing and contemplative weekend retreat at Hilfield Friary, an intentional community in North Dorset. Here, a core of four Franciscan brothers and a wider community of members and volunteers young and old, single and married, […]
Climate and Ecological Crisis?

From 31 October to13th November the COP26 summit will take place in Glasgow. World leaders will gather to accelerate the action towards the goals of the 2015 Paris agreement. Excessive amounts of gases, such as carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane are building up in our atmosphere causing a catastrophic greenhouse effect. It is heating […]