The End of the Line

Recently watched The End of the Line, which is currently available in the UK on More4 using  4 On Demand (The End of the Line – 4oD – Channel 4) and soon to be out on DVD.
It is an incredible story about the shocking decline in global fish stocks – sadly not a film about [...]

Rowan Williams – climate crisis a chance to become human again

Rowan Williams is in the news this week talking about the climate crisis and our human dignity and spirituality, and our connection to the earth’s rhythms. It comes as he gave the Operation Noah lecture last night, which I’m sure will be available  online soon:
“If I ask what’s the point of my undertaking a modest [...]

HOME – a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

I first saw the Earth from the Air photograph exhibition by Yann Arthus-Bertrand years ago at the Natural History Museum in London and it was, and still is, fantastic. His photography is breathtaking and inspirational – and the exhibition has always had at its core a goal of inspiring people to act on what they [...]

Ban the [plastic] bag

One of the things that struck us all whilst in Bangladesh was the high importance given to the environment and climate change, and in particular the high practical response to mitigating against it.
Bangladesh is low-lying and one of the most at risk countries in the world for rising sea levels and changing weather patterns. Everywhere [...]

Rene Padilla in the UK

The CMS Crowther Centre regularly welcomes experienced mission thinkers and practitioners to help reflection and learning… and one of the things the community house we are part of will be doing is hosting these thinkers – known as the missiologist in residence…
The first such missiologist to join us will be Rene Padilla (‘South American [...]

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.
The Story of Stuff is a great little film [...]

Organic fruit and veg box

A few people have asked me recently about where we get our fruit and veg from… so I thought it was time I mentioned the delights of Riverford Organic deliveries, especially when I noticed that this week they have announced that they now deliver, through local farms, to most of England and south Wales.
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Clothes exchange

You can now get paid (in vouchers) for taking old M&S to your local Oxfam shop… find out more – although you’ve gotta shop at M&S first to make that one work… anyone?

Climate change – An Inconvenient Truth

“Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever [...]

A Generous community

Thought you might like to know about the Generous project – which I first came across at the Greenbelt festival. It is a growing community of people who commit to making small changes in our everyday lives to look after our planet and its people. You can sign up as a household – and share [...]