tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476868488396853824.post5292003273013714423..comments2023-06-17T15:46:23.163+01:00Comments on Woodbrooke Good Lives Blog: Why Quakers in Britain should become a Low Carbon CommunityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476868488396853824.post-36287320561195823262010-02-03T14:06:26.775+00:002010-02-03T14:06:26.775+00:00Peter Hussey writes:
Our Meeting, Llandrindod and...Peter Hussey writes:<br /><br />Our Meeting, Llandrindod and Pales, was a very early signatory to 10:10, and most members, if not all, have signed up individually. Following a series of study group sessions I produced a draft 5 year plan. It looked at a timetable for the Meeting and the individuals involved to reduce the carbon footprint and become a more resilient community. Two major difficulties appear, firstly, while being a worshipping community, we are a very geographically dispersed group, and, probably like every Meeting we do not generate sufficient income to capitalise our environmental aspirations (see "You Quakers are so lucky" The Friend Jan 1st). It is likely that those two factors are closely linked. We have now delegated further work to the relevant committees, while my draft plan at least provides some deadlines to maintain impetus. The Meeting, as a worshipping community appear to accept that the aims are proper, and that they outweigh the drawbacks, for example, that cost/return ratios should not be considered, if we agree that a course of action is the correct one to increase our sustainability, then we can, and should, leave the provision of the finance to the Spirit.Woodbrooke Good Lives Projecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08924880899776322830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476868488396853824.post-23245142547326422412010-01-20T12:57:02.763+00:002010-01-20T12:57:02.763+00:00I do have some ideas, working on a timescale of th...I do have some ideas, working on a timescale of the next 5 years or so. Publishing this was a first step to get the idea 'out there'. I've heard via Living Witness Project that a few meetings are looking at 10:10 at the level of individuals and the local meeting, which is a start. I've just recently been talking with Simon Ross, who heads up the LCCs project at Marches Energy Agency, and he has some resources that could be made available. I'm in conversation about getting something into Woodbrooke's programme next year. I think we can do something with this - once we have a number of starting points, we can build on them and gain momentum.Woodbrooke Good Lives Projecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08924880899776322830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6476868488396853824.post-29169535551751589352010-01-20T11:40:45.222+00:002010-01-20T11:40:45.222+00:00Do you have any ideas for co-ordinating action on ...Do you have any ideas for co-ordinating action on this Pam? I would like to see Local Meetings getting behind this and creating some momentum.<br />Given that Meeting for Sufferings recently decided not to support the 10:10 campaign, action clearly needs to come from the grassroots if anything is to happen nationally.<br />Sheffield Central Meeting has recently formed a new committee to work on carbon reduction for both the Meeting House and the Meeting community - is anyone else doing this?Craig Barnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10989836224933685821noreply@blogger.com