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Dearest Friends Happy Green Valentine's Day. February 12-16 is Go Green Week and we're using it as an opportunity to get ready to take on the finance industry driving fossil fuel extraction from fracking in Lancashire, to coal mining in Colombia, and oil pipelines across Europe and North America. In the year of full fossil fuel divestment commitments from Huddersfield, Sussex and Edinburgh; completed divestments at Bristol and SOAS; and NYC and Paris challenging Big Oil in the courts - what better time to get involved in the fastest growing social movement in the world? February 12-16 is Go Green Week and we're using it as an opportunity to get ready to take on the finance industry driving fossil fuel extraction from fracking in Lancashire, to coal mining in Colombia, and oil pipelines across Europe and North America. Here are just a few ways you can join the movement next week.... 1. London based? JOIN our screening of To The Ends Of The Earth and panel discussion on Monday at 6:30pm. Book your cheap ticket now 2. Sign up to our Front Lines Solidarity Webinar to hear from South East Asian climate justice activists on how we can support them from the UK - Tuesday at 12pm 3. Start your own Divest Barclays campaign beginning with our webinar introducing Fossil Free Finance on Thursday at 6pm. REGISTER now! 4. Help us reach 10,000 people calling on Barclays to ditch fossil fuel finance. SIGN and SHARE this petition ✍️ Edinburgh's full divestment is the biggest yet for a UK university. Campaigns are heating up at Cambridge, Bristol, UCL, Manchester, Leeds, Cardiff, Oxford, Bath and many more. SHARE the good news to let these unis know its their turn to join the movement to keep fossil fuels in the ground Celebrate the long-fought campaign of Edinburgh People & Planet on Twitter Let all of your friends know about the biggest UK uni divestment yet on Facebook Website Our mailing address is: People & Planet The Old Music Hall 106-108 Cowley RoadOxford, OxfordshireOX4 1JE United Kingdom Add us to your address bookPeople & Planet https://peopleandplanet.org Great news from A Rocha. This may make it easier for your congregation to score better. They write...
"Just to recap, whether you are an Awarded church, newly registered or half way through your Eco Church journey, we have been listening to your comments, stories and suggestions since the launch of Eco Church in 2016. We want to make Eco Church even more relevant and accessible to a wider range of churches and so will be launching a new version of the survey tomorrow, 31st January.What happens next?
Watch this easy How-To video if you are thinking about signing up your congregation as an Eco Church... Google "A Rocha Eco Church" and follow the links... Howard Hutchings from Shrewsbury URC went on the famous Pilgrimage from London to Paris to attend COP2015. Below, Howard shares some of those stories...
Thanks To Howard Hutchings from Shrewsbury URC for this poignant post on the highlights of his powerful pilgrimage to Paris. We know how terrible plastics are for the environment. Franziska Herring writes about this matter for her 'Green Tidings' magazine at Trinity Stafford. Thanks Franzi. Costa Rica aims to become the first country to ban all single-use plastics. Costa Rica is taking a stand against the plastic waste flooding our oceans and clogging up our landfills: the country is poised to become the first in the world to eliminate all single-use plastics. This isn’t just a ban on plastic bags or water bottles. Using a multi-prong approach, Costa Rica will eliminate plastic forks, lids and even coffee stirrers. And as if that wasn’t a lofty enough goal, they plan to do this by 2021. Plastic is one of the most dramatic problems that the environment is facing. There is so much plastic trash in the ocean that it is difficult to even comprehend, and we are constantly discovering more. By 2050, there could be more plastic in the ocean than fish. In Costa Rica, 4,000 tons of solid waste is produced every day, and 20 percent of that never makes it to a recycle centre or landfill, ending up in the Costa Rican rivers, beaches and forests. Costa Rica has taken environmental protection seriously. The country plans to be carbon neutral by 2021, in part by ditching fossil fuels. They are also dedicated to restoring their forests and protecting wildlife. In order to move away from single-use plastic, the country will utilize both public and private sectors to accomplish five actions. The country will offer incentives and issue requirements for suppliers, in addition to investing in research and development and other initiatives that will move it closer to its goals. It will also replace single-use products with innovations like cellulose acetate-based materials. From: Costa Rica News (8/07/2017) by Kristine Lofgren |
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