Judith Allinson, of Settle, Northern England writes:
“Oh the Oak and the Ash and the bonny Ivy tree…“
Around Settle where I live, Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is our the main big wild tree. Outside of the town a quarter of the big trees are ash.
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Talk by Mike Berners-Lee: 12 June: There is no Planet B
New: Mike Berners-Lee’s book There is no Planet B – A Handbook for the Make or Break Years.
Mike Berners-Lee’s books are: fun to read. They are filled with astonishing facts and analysis. They have practical and inspiring ideas about what you can actually do.”
and he is coming to speak to us at Settle!
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Getting ready for the Easter Uprising
Christian Climate Action is a group of Christians who, like all of us at Green Christian, are fighting climate and ecological breakdown. Many of them are Green Christian members. They think that the issue is serious enough to demand civil disobedience, and are getting together with Extinction Rebellion this Easter in a campaign of peaceful nonviolent direct action calling for action.
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GC 100 Churches Rainforest Fund – FAQ
GC 100 Churches Rainforest Fund – FAQ
Could your church hold a fund raising event? — to save habitat and species
Click here to
1. Find our which churches have raised money so far and
GC is seeking
100 churches to raise £100 each
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Save an acre of rainforest this Advent – whilst it is still there to protect.
Does your church care about the wildlife and habitats being destroyed today – this week? These will now not be available for future generations?
Do you care?
Green Christian’s Rainforest Fund project encourages churches to raise £100 (or more) to donate to a charity that protects rainforest and other habitats of biodiversity importance under threat.
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Prayer for COP14 of the Convention of Biodiversity in Sharm El-Sheikh
The Convention for Biodiversity meets alternate years. We are in year 8 of the 10 years of the decade of biodiversity. In 2o1o we – GC (then CEL) wrote prayers for the 2010 convention.
During the period 13 – 29 Nov 2018, the fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity is meeting: –
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Living Planet: Jesus and Advent
Barbara Echlin writes:
One of my favourite modern wooden statues is in a nearby local park. It portrays a butterfly, ladybird, worm and spider clinging on to an ancient fern. Our planet has an abundance of living creatures of all colours, shapes and sizes. Ferns similar to the common bracken were thriving before the dinosaurs roamed the earth.
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Saving Wildlife and Biodiversity – 60% decline in world wildlife over last 40 years – populations of wild animals (vertebrates)
Today 30 Oct 2018 WWF announced (read the report)
60%
Populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians have, on average, declined by 60% between 1970 and 2014, the most recent year with available data.
50%
The Earth is estimated to have lost about half of its shallow water corals in the past 30 years.
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