‘God doesn’t do waste’
Revd Dave Bookless, co-founder of A Rocha UK, will speak on ‘God doesn’t do waste’ when he addresses a Greencoat Forum in the London centre of Initiatives of Change on Tuesday 21 September. The title of his talk is taken from his new book, published this July. It refers to ecological waste but also the accumulation of life’s experiences and how we as individuals handle them. This follows his earlier book Planetwise, subtitled Dare to care for God’s world .

Uma nova coalizão global de grupos religiosos preocupados com a mudança climática e do meio ambiente foi lançada no centro de Iniciativas de Mudança em Londres, 14 de Janeiro.

Amid the controversy over flaws discovered in the 2007 IPCC report, the website realclimate.org, written by working climate scientists, has an excellent article which separates the facts from the spin and media distortions. Read article here.

El 14 de enero, una nueva coalición mundial de grupos religiosos preocupados por el cambio climático y el medio ambiente se puso en marcha en el Barn room de la Iniciativas de Cambio en el centro de Londres. Faith Climate Connect es un recurso y una red de trabajo libre y global, que reúne un foro interactivo de videos, noticias religiosas y sobre el clima, referencias bíblicas, videoconferencias, mensajes instantáneos, fotografías y blogs.

A new global coalition of faith groups concerned about climate change and the environment was launched in the Barn room of the Initiatives of Change centre in London on 14 January. Faith Climate Connect  is a free global resource and network, bringing together an interactive forum of videos, faith and climate news, scriptural references, video conferencing, instant messaging, photographs and blogs.

"Beneath the surface of a failed conference, there has emerged a common vision amongst youth, which inspires me to continue doing this work," writes Marcia Lee, a 2009 Caux Scholar from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who attended the conference on climate change.

I attended the first week of the COP15 (Conference of Parties) in Copenhagen with a small international team from Initiatives of Change. I am American, but I split my time between energy efficiency work for the U.S. government and graduate school in London where I am a PhD student at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

Essayez d’imaginer le scénario suivant : Vous êtes en voiture avec votre enfant. Vous roulez trop vite et ne voyez pas la signalisation, donc avez un accident lors duquel votre enfant est gravement blessé. Les médecins font tout leur possible et vous disent qu’à moins d’une série d’opérations coûteuses, votre enfant aura un sérieux handicap. A ce moment là, ou bien vous : a) refusez de croire les docteurs, affirmant que votre fils ira bien sans les opérations, b) dîtes aux médecins que vous êtes prêt à payer pour sauver les yeux de votre enfant mais pas ses jambes car vous ne voulez donner que 5% de votre revenu, ou c) vendez votre maison, prenez un deuxième emploi et faites tout ce qu’il faut pour que votre enfant ait toutes les chances de vivre une vie normale ?