Caring for the Environment
ECO CHURCH
Eco Church is about connecting faith to our concern for the environment. We hope and pray for a better, fairer and greener world and seek to use our time, energy and creative imagination to work towards this goal.
2026 October
Greening your home this Autumn. Tackle climate change and
reduce your heating bills by finding and reducing the draughts
in your home.
Find the gaps that let cold air in and warm air out (keyholes, letterboxes and gaps around windows, doors, loft hatches and floorboards for example).
Do what you can to fix these gaps - there are lots of tutorials on how to do this online.
It’s also a good time to prepare for winter by putting radiator reflector foil or baking foil behind the radiator. This will reflect heat back into your room.
Plant spring bulbs: Put organic daffodils and crocuses in the ground now to support pollinators next spring.
Leave leaf litter: Avoid clearing every fallen leaf; decaying foliage feeds the soil and shelters beneficial garden insects.
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Eco Vision for St. Michael’s.
We had a list of objectives briefly set out below and the Eco Church online questionnaire designed to search out our ability to make additions and improvements in the many areas in which we operate.
- Renewable energy
- Install automatic movement sensors to switch off lights
- Solar panels
- ASHP for heating/hot water
- Utilities
- Green suppliers
- Recycling
- Introduce double-sided printing to reduce paper waste
- Implement an e-waste policy to properly recycle everything
- Donate old but still functioning electronic devices to charity
- Promote the purchase of second hand furniture
- Change to A+++ electrical appliances
- Insulation of windows and doors
- Gardening, landscape and biodiversity
- Grow our own flowers
- Introduce non-toxic cleaning products
- Low-carbon transport
- Clean water
- Store rainwater from rooftops in tanks
- Install water saving devices in toilets and tabs
- A good sustainability project idea is to use rainwater to flush toilets
- Organic food
https://www.greenofficemovement.org/sustainability-project-ideas
We have made progress in a number of the above.
