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.
September 2025
The Season of Creation (1 September - 4 October) is dedicated to God as the creator and sustainer of all life. During this period of the church calendar, many churches celebrate Harvest, thanking God for His provision through the land and food that is grown.
It’s a time when churches and congregations are called to pay special attention to the responsibility of humanity for the Earth and for all that lives upon it, and to pray for our world.
Explore A Rocha UK’s season of creation resources at: arocha.org. uk/what-we-do/season-of-creation.
Click on here to view the Minutes of ECO Meetings 2021 onwards
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At the beginning of August ’21 we had the first meeting of the group called 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.
