Yesterday I attended the last meeting of ODEG which is now becoming the Earthing Faith Network. Matt Freer reported that the new Earthing Faith website is now up and running and has been much visited. The diocesan website has also been revamped. While the latter carries all the official documentation the Earthing Faith website also has a blog and other resources, including information for churches on installing wood fuel and biomass boilers, pv panels and heat pumps.Matt reported that Oxford has been chosen, along with Newcastle, as a pilot diocese for using s-measure software to help churches to measure their energy use/carbon emissions and thereby reduce them. Hopefully at least 100 churches will get involved since for this year of the pilot project the software is free for us to use. The scheme is linked to local weather stations so can take account of colder weather in its reporting. It is also open to church schools.
In plans for forthcoming Earthing Faith meeting we discussed community growing schemes, local food etc, as possible themes, hence the chicken picture.
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