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Resources
Below you will find the latest environment resources from the Diocese of Oxford.
In the right sidebar you will also find a list of the latest resources from the Earthing Faith website.
Speakers, facilitators and courses: Does your church or group want to explore ways to engage with environmental issues? How could you include the environment in the life and mission of your church? We may be able to help you find speakers, facilitators and resources to help you think through the options. Contact us for further information.
Energy Monitoring Pilot Scheme - churches
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The Diocese of Oxford and the national CofE Shrinking the Footprint campaign are offering churches in the diocese the opportunity to use, for free, energy monitoring software that will help track and reduce their energy use.
Environment map
This map shows you many of the environment based projects and groups active in the Diocese of Oxford - from eco church building projects to biodiversity in churchyards and local community groups focussed on environmental issues. Find a project or group near you - or add your own project to the map.
For Creed and Creation Book
For Creed and Creation: A simple guide to greening your church is a great little book of practical suggestions for making your church more energy efficient. From the way the building is run, to how rubbish is recycled and the light switches used. It will help to reduce your bills and put you on the right track to tackling your churches carbon footprint.
Switch your church to green electricity
The Diocese of Oxford has negotiated schemes with two of the UK’s leading green energy providers that make switching to green electricity easy and make donations to the Church of England’s Climate Justice Fund.
Your Church & Wood Fuel (Biomass)
This information sheet is produced by the Diocese of Oxford to introduce how biomass could be used to heat your church. It will help you assess the suitability of your church and provides a list of things to consider as you develop a project to install a biomass boiler and benefit from the government Renewable Heat Incentive.
Your Church and Heat Pumps
This information sheet is produced by the Diocese of Oxford to introduce how heat pumps could be used to heat your church. It will help you assess the suitability of your church and provides a list of things to consider as you develop a project to install heat pump technology and benefit from the government Renewable Heat Incentive.
Your Church and Solar PV
This information sheet is produced by the Diocese of Oxford to introduce how solar energy could be used to generate electricity in your church. It will help you assess the suitability of your church and provides a list of things to consider as you develop a project to install solar panels and benefit from the government Feed-In-Tariff.
Suggested Eco-Professionals Directory
The Diocese of Oxford compile a directory of suggested eco-professionals who provide eco-advice and services, such as energy efficiency audits and renewable energy, to churches.
Your church and renewable energy
The Diocese of Oxford encourages churches to explore renewable energy options for their buildings - and here we share some resources that will help churches wanting to explore renewable energy options.
Inspired by Creation postcards
To mark creation-tide in 2010 the Earthing Faith website and the Diocese of Oxford ran the Inspired by Creation competition, which asked people to share through a photograph or poem the place where they find inspiration and a connection with God. The three winning photographs, plus the three runners-up, have now been made into set of six postcards, which are available priced at £1.50 per pack, or £6.50 for 5 packs and £11.50 for 10 packs.
Environment Leaflet
An introductory leaflet about the environment and the Diocese of Oxford.
Supporting biodiversity in a churchyard
This case study, from St Mary and St John Church in East Oxford, presents the story of turning a churchyard that had become a forest of overgrown trees and tangled undergrowth, convenient for prostitution and drug taking, to be a much appreciated quiet green space in the middle of a busy urban area. Its maintenance has also become an important partnership between the church and others in the local community, and the churchyard is now an educational resource on wildlife and local history.