| MEDITATION is an excellent way to save energy and help stop global warming, says a new church guide, published this week.
Car-shares to church, reviewing the church floodlighting, holidaying at home, and even cutting down the number of times you flush the lavatory also help.
The launch of the guide, How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change a Christian?, was timed to coincide with the Prime Minister’s announcement on Monday that he had tied in eight companies, including Marks & Spencer, Tesco, and British Gas, to parts of the carbon-footprint agenda. The Church of England is another partner.
One of the booklet’s co-authors, Dr David Shreeve, co-founder of the Conservation Foundation, said last week that church engagement with green issues was starting to bite. The General Synod had called for churches to “audit” their energy use in 2005, and figures were beginning to roll in, he said. An audit would be published next year.
In the booklet, he writes: “It’s easy to become depressed about the state of the environment and its future, especially when the news seems to be getting gloomier.” But the “relatively small changes” individual churchgoers could make in their energy use “mean that we are not adding to the problem. . . We will be signalling to Government that we want it to act to help the planet.”
The booklet is co-authored by
the Church’s national adviser on environmental issues, Claire Foster.
Among other ideas: “Offer to do the washing-up after coffee instead of using plastic throw-away cups. Churches used to be the main source of jumble: why not recycle the idea and make some money for the church and its work?”
How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change a Christian? is published by CHP at £4.99; 978-0-7151-4127-4; Comment
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