You'll find a wide range of tools, links, and contacts on this page that may help you with your environmental projects
Eco Church
• Eco Church is designed to be a tool for a parishes journey and is our main thrust as a diocese
• Support spreadsheet and with DAC comments
• A Rocha conferences on Eco Church and wider creation care.
Diocesan Help
• Contact point is deo@salisbury.anglican.org , occasional surgeries will be run
Net Zero
• The CofE practical path to net zero - including links to a two-page summary guidance note and a self-guided checklist any church can use
• Webinars - including heating, lighting, solar panels, EV car charging, and more
• Heating – including new case studies
• Energy efficiency – created by the DEO Energy Group
• Video on the Results from the church energy audits
• Journey to Net Zero - introduction to net zero from the The Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT) (Baptists, Church of Scotland, the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church)
• Church of England Declaration by General Synod in February and Update paper to General Synod - the final net zero definition is attached to this as an appendix
Carbon footprint
• CofE churches required to complete each year to report basic carbon footprint - Energy Footprint Tool, email parishsupport@salisbury.anglican.org for more details.
• Churches wanting a more sophisticated carbon footprint - 360Carbon - includes energy, transport, food, procurement, and more
Buildings advice
• SPAB - Society for Protection of Ancient Buildings
• For CofE churches, your DAC
• Find a Building Services Engineer, e.g. for heating guidance, from the CIBSE Directory
• Find an accredited installer for solar panels
Funding
• CofE grants funding guide from Parish Resources
• And a suite for “how to” guides from Parish Resources.
• Community Energy England funding opportunities
• For local grants, find out whether you have a local CVS (Council for Voluntary Services). If so, they generally have a grants directory. Also contact the sustainability or community engagement officer at your local authority
Transport
• Useful carbon footprint calculator from Climate Stewards
• LiftShare UK helps people find lift and shares
• OZEV - grants for EV car charging posts
• EV charging posts Zap Map
• (Plus the church webinar programme - above - includes a webinar on EV car charging.)
• For the keen cyclist - the cathedral cycle route challenge
Land and nature
• Churches Count on Nature nature survey of your churchyard each June
• Caring for God’s Acre free resources - including burial grounds childrens pack
• CofE Trees page
• Find your local Wildlife Trust who are often very open to joint working to support community action
• Wild About Gardens scroll down for booklets on different species and on ponds
• Find your Local Environmental Records Centre for help with species identification and recording
Framework for church action
Frameworks for individual / household action
• Creation Care, an excellent framework for households & lifestyle which congregations can follow together
• Count us in - 16 high impact steps which individuals can take to cut carbon
• WWF Footprint Calculator - pretty simple footprint tool, and an informative process
Frameworks for schools and youth
Young People, The Church and Climate Change (Burning the house down)
• Powerful video plea from young people – 4 mins
• Research Report by Tearfund and Youthscape
• Huge mass of resources focused on those for young people
Worship and music
• Creation-themed liturgy A Time for Creation
• Liturgy for the Agricultural Year
• Doxecology by Resound worship
• Sermon resources at Sustainable Preaching and Greening the Lectionary
• Bishop Olivia of Reading’s theological reflections (+Olivia chairs the Oxford net zero taskforce)
• A Rocha International - YouTube channel - search for Dave Bookless New Wine talks NL 2020
Outside Worship & Biodiversity
• Outdoor worship guidance page
• Worship in the Woods resource pack for outside worship by Engage Worship .
• State of Nature report 2019 a one-page summary info-graphic, the report for England & the full report
• Devon churches green action (scroll down for guidance notes)
• CofE Biodiversity page
Campaigns by partner organisations
Procurement
• Church of England Parish Buying
• Green energy basket from Parish Buying
• Energy audits from Parish Buying
• Solar panels from Parish Buying
• The Big Green Switch or good green and ethical energy broking advice
Ethical Investment
Prayers and Worship
• Sustainable Preaching, ideas on how to preaching a sustainable message using the lectionary readings
• Prayers for World Environment Day
• Updated "All things Bright and Beautiful"
• All creatures of our God & King set to music with lovely photos of mostly birds and some animals
Partners, networks, and useful organisations to know about
• Climate Stewards for carbon offsetting
• Historic England "Energy efficiency and historic buildings" (scroll for range of different guidance notes)
• Hope for the Future free training on lobbying
• Christian Aid campaign toolkit
Small group materials – e.g. Lent
• Tearfund Christianity & Climate Change – free course with videos by Katharine Hayhoe
• Operation Noah – Tenants of The King
• Ruth Valerio’s book – Saying yes to Life -Archbishops Lent 2020 book
• Lausanne Movement: Creation Care course part of their global classroom – excellent set of videos with world-leading experts and support materials for individuals or groups
Other useful resources
• Hope for the Future - for engaging with your politicians
• The most important thing you can do about climate change is talk about it – video by Katharine Hayhoe
• Katharine Hayhoe, a world leading climate communicator, on how to talk about climate
• Project DrawDown, an excellent overview of climate issues and workable climate solutions
• Climate Outreach “Communicating climate change in a crisis” – scroll down to find the video
• Has your council declared a climate emergency? Search the listings of climate emergency declarations here and find their climate plans here.
• Climate Outreach “how to have a climate change conversation”
• Video from Justice conference – Letter to my Grandchildren very moving, 6 minutes
• Climate change & biodiversity & action required explained by Royal Society