Creation Challenge

The Green Pages and the Creation Challenge network have teamed up with the publisher Lion Children’s to offer your chance to win one of 5 sets of It’s My World Too and The Good Green Footprint, by just answering this simple question:

On what topical phrase does The Good Green Footprint play?
a) carbon dioxide
b) carbon footprint
c) carbon dating

Entries close on 28th Feb and can be made online at http://www.jotform.com/preview/10065939390.

It’s My World Too (Discover Endangered Animals and Their Habitats to give children an awareness of important environmental issues and encouragement to be kind to their planet) and The Good Green Footprint (Crafts to Help Save the Planet)

For more information about Lion Children’s selection of green books, visit http://www.lionhudson.com/green

A Christian leader from the Pacific, a region especially vulnerable to the impact of human-assisted global warming, has been expressing dismay about the outcome of the recent Copenhagen summit on climate change. Read more.

The UN Climate Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen has concluded with a frail and deeply flawed agreement that has been denounced by many of the nations most vulnerable to climate change. Read more

What does the Bible say about climate change? What are the theological insights churches can offer to a world facing an unprecedented ecological crisis? Read this World Council of Churches feature article.

“Living Hope: Green Churches, Green Schools” is a day conference being held at Great Missenden parish church and school on the 6th of March. It is supported by A Rocha, Bucks County Council, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Christian Concern for One World, The Diocese of Oxford, Earth Abbey, Reading CEL Group, Tearfund and Traidcraft, as well as the parish church of St Peter and St Paul Great Missenden and the Great Missenden CE Combined School. Read the rest of this entry →

The Government’s department of Energy and Climate Change have just launched a survey to ask you how they can best listen to the views and ideas of young people on the issue of climate change. Take part

The brand spanking new Go Green Week guide from People & Planet for schools and colleges is here! Taking place just before Valentine’s Day, Go Green Week 2010 is all about feeling the love for the climate. Download guide.

A new publication on economic and ecological justice by church-based economists and justice advocates in the Caribbean region is a call to action for churches worldwide according to the Guyanese editor of the book.

“The cry for life resounds throughout scripture,” says Patricia Sheerattan-Bisnauth. “The Bible is a record of God speaking through prophets and calling the faithful to challenge injustice in the world around them.”

Sheerattan-Bisnauth, who heads-up social justice programming for the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC), made her comments in announcing the publication on 18 January of an educational resource guide called Power to Resist and Courage to Hope: Caribbean Churches Living out the Accra Confession. Read more

The Central Committee of the CEC meeting in Geneva from 16 to 19 December 2009 expresses the deep regret that the summit did not result in an ambitious and legally binding agreement adequately responding to climate change. Download the full statement.

Copenhagen– before, during and after
The last few months have been very busy ones for many of us involved in JRI. Undoubtedly the main reason has been the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference which was held from 7th to 18th December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Read more