What's On? - 2012 calendar

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Ammerdown near Bath.

Environment Sunday - is the Sunday at the beginning of June nearest to World Environment Day. A Rocha International will be producing material for this Environment Sunday - this year focussing on Trees and Forests, and relating to the Earth Summit whcih starts on 20 June.

It is recognised that many other events are happening on this Sunday - Including the big Lunch, silver Jubilee celebrations, Trinity Sunday - so Churches are encouraged to celebrate "Environment Sunday" on a Sunday close to the 3rd, but at a time suitable to each local church.

It is Bristol Big Green Week It’s being billed as The UK’s First Ever International Festival of Environment, Ideas, Art and Culture Lots of green luminaries involved, including Jonathon Porritt.

There is a series of spiritual events:-

Whose Earth - With Ruth Valerio, Andy Lester & Paul Cook (Tearfund)

• the Bible basis
• the science behind the issues
• how we can all play a part in responding, including calling on decision-makers to act to eradicate poverty in a way that protects the environment

North West Sustainability Forum Preston, - Speakers:- Bryan Gray CBE DL – Current roles include Pro-Chancellor of Lancaster University, Trustee of the National Museums Liverpool and Chair for The Churches Trust for Cumbria. - Mike Berners-Lee – Director and principal consultant at Small World Consulting and expert in carbon footprinting.  Author of How Bad are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything - Revd. Margot Hodson – Vicar of Haddenham, Cuddington, Kingsey and Aston Sandford, teaches environmental ethics at Oxford Brookes University.  Author of several books including Cherishing the Earth, how to care for God’s CreationDr. Martin Hodson – Visiting Researcher in Environmental Biology in the School of Life Sciences at Oxford Brookes University, and Associate Member of the Institute of Human Sciences at the University of Oxford. Operations Manager for the John Ray Initiative, Co-Director of the Agriculture and Theology Project and Principal Tutor of the Certificate in Christian Rural and Environmental Studies (CRES).

 This event has been developed following the organisers’ attendance at the Sustainability in Crisis conference (http://www.sustainability-in-crisis.org) which took place in Cambridge last summer.  Recordings of the sessions from this conference are freely available via the Faraday Institute website.

St. Cuthbert's Church (http://www.stcuthbertschurch.net/) is located on Lytham Road in Fulwood, Preston PR2 3AR.  PARTICIPANTS

This event primarily seeks to attract individuals who are taking leadership on sustainability issues within the North West of England.  Consequently it will be attractive to a range of individuals working within (and across) business, public sector, faith, academic and third sector.  Places are limited.

. THE ALTERNATIVE RIO+20 IN LONDON
CEL is supporting the Alternative Rio Summit.

On Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th June, the weekend preceding the Earth Summit, in the central London Universities, there will be an alternative summit organised by the Campaign against Climate Change and the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

The conference will aim to explore what we feel are the more radical solutions required to tackle the current ecological crisis, than those that are likely to dominate the discussions at Rio. It will provide an opportunity for people here in the UK, who for the most part cannot make it to Rio, to join in the discussion around the issues that the Earth summit will be focusing upon.

Speakers and workshop leaders include: John McDonnell MP (Labour), Jean Lambert MEP (Green Party), Stephen Tindale (ex-Director, Greenpeace), Oliver Tickell (author Kyoto 2), Mayer Hillman, Murad Qureshi (GLA & Bangladeshi community), John Lanchberry (RSPB) and many more.

Tony Emerson from Christian Ecology Link will be leading a workshop entitled “Do values need to change before we get effective climate action?”
http://www.campaigncc.org/altsummit

Communicating Renewable Energy - Talk Action Training Day - Skills workshop - 10.00-16.00 -

Christian Rural & Environmental Studies Field Trip - To Benhtam and Growing with Grace, Clapham, N Yorkshire, and to Pioneer Projects, Bentham - It is organised by Tim Fox for CRES/CRuC/JRI, but this trip is open to anyone provided they book

Facilitaitn Training - 10.00 - 16.00 - Gain the tools and techniques to make your facilitation engaging and productive http://www.talkaction.org/training/facilitation-cardiff /

1. BOOK YOUR PLACE AT CEL RETREAT WEEKEND, 19-21 OCT

CEL Weekend Retreat 2012, ‘Is your ecology too small?, Noddfa, North Wales LL34 6YF, 19-21 October, 2012.

Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment. Cost: £100.
More information and booking forms available at www.greenchristian.org.uk

From the great story of the universe we learn that there is no disconnection and we are kin in the kin-dom of God with all that is. What will our faith look and sound like when we embrace that revelation? Our time will be a Christ-centred and biblically-informed journey in that great story. We will travel with prophets, psalmists and cosmologists, singing their songs and telling their stories of homecoming. We will reflect together on our emerging vocation to be co-creators with God, asking forgiveness for the plight of the earth and making straight the way of the Lord in the damaged but still beautiful world in which we live.