Caring for the Environment
The Diocese of Norwich is Committed to Growth -
which includes a commitment to “safeguard the integrity
of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth”.
Read our Diocesan Environmental Policy or measure your Carbon Footprint. Additional resources will be added to this section over time to help both individuals and churches.
Questions
Some questions for reflection and discussion:
How are we saving energy and recycling waste?
Have we thought of working to become an ‘ecocongregation’?
How can we overcome the sense
that this is all too much to take in and too much to
do anything about?
Can we help each other face up to the new
questions climate change is facing us with?
What is our church doing to support sustainable
development in less advantaged parts of the world?
What effect will climate change have on Norfolk
and Waveney - and on our own grandchildren?
Updates
3 November 2009
The Plan includes the aim of cutting the churchs carbon footprint by 42% by 2020, 4700 sustainable schools nationwide by 2016 and Eco-twinning with church communities in developing world.
2 October 2009
The Diocesan Environmental Officer, Hereward Cooke, is donning his warmest cycling clothes to cycle for Christian Aid to Denmark`s capital city this coming December.
21 September 2009
Make it personal; support the poor by counting your carbon says Church of England.
21 September 2009
Statement from the CofEs College of Bishops responding to the challenge of Climate Change in the run-up to Copenhagen.
7 September 2009
A Broadland vicar made the most of the riverside setting of his parishes this weekend as he rowed 15 miles between villages.
Contact
The Revd Canon Hereward Cooke
Environmental Officer, Diocese of Norwich
Clergy
Friary Orchard
Mariners' Hill Blakeney Norfolk NR25 7NB |
Tel: 01263 740320
E-mail: cookehd@paston.co.uk |