by admin | Feb 25, 2025 | Eco Church, Forward Magazine Featured Articles, News
Solar panels for the Mint We have now assembled sufficient funding for the solar panel project to go ahead, thanks to the funds raised for ‘green’ projects in our 2023 Gift Day, plus grants from the Benefact Trust and Garfield Weston, together with a smalltop up from...
by admin | Jan 1, 2025 | Eco Church, Forward Magazine Featured Articles, News
New Year, New Environmental Outlook Stephen Haddad shares some ideas for environmentally friendly New Year’s resolutions. With Christmas festivities in the past, or soon to be, depending on when you read this, people are starting to think about what 2025 has in store,...
by admin | Dec 1, 2024 | Eco Church, Forward Magazine Featured Articles, News
Celebrating Christmas Many of the ways in which we celebrate Christmas cause additional carbon emissions, so can we be environmentally andsocially responsible without sounding too like Scrooge? Here are some ideas, mainly from A Rocha and Green Christian. Food In...
by admin | Oct 29, 2024 | Eco Church, Forward Magazine Featured Articles, News
UK Energy Generation Many of you will have seen that on 30th September this year the UK’s last coal-fired power station stopped producing electricity, 142 years after the first coal-fired power station came online. This move away from coal has been gradual, with...
by admin | Oct 29, 2024 | Eco Church, Forward Magazine Featured Articles, News
Flowers planted Following last month’s news about a Mint gardening group that had been started, we’re now pleased to report some further action. With thanks to a volunteer who comes to Forum and Prayer group, the beds at the front of the church have been weeded and...
by admin | Aug 30, 2024 | Eco Church, Forward Magazine Featured Articles, News
Weeding and Gardening In the last edition of Forward, John White wrote about needing a volunteer to help with weeding and gardening at the Mint. For some time the Mint Eco Team had been talking about tidying up the front beds, and so a couple of us and a volunteer who...
