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 November
As winter creeps in, homes are really important. God calls
us to give nature a home, too. Does your garden have a bird
feeder? Could your balcony or windowsill do with some plant
life? If you don’t own the house you could make a case to the
homeowner for a bird box, hedgehog highway or whatever.
(For a hedgehog highway do make sure the neighbours are
OK with you making a small hole in a shared fence). Why not
gather your housemates, friends and family to discuss how a
new recycling, heating or transport arrangement might work
for you all - you’ll go further together!
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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.
