In July we reported how the Commission had engaged with the University of Leeds for an MSc student on the Sustainability and Consulting course (Mohamed Juma) to evaluate whether the Diocese could do more to reduce its carbon footprint. Climate change remains one of the biggest challenges to the world today. The challenge is huge […]
Climate Change
19 Jul – Can we reduce the Carbon Footprint of the Leeds Diocese?
Some months ago we reported how our Diocese has moved to a ‘green energy’ supplier, along with a number of other dioceses. In the Commission we wondered if there were other actions that the Diocese could take to reduce its carbon footprint to both demonstrate its witness to the truths expressed in Laudato Si and […]
24 Jun 17 -Live Simply Workshop
Fifty five people from across our Diocese and beyond came along to the Workshop that we organised about Live Simply – with the financial support of CAFOD. The event ended with a mass signing by all those present of CAFOD’s ‘Power to Be’ petition cards (highlighting the need for support of renewable energy projects to […]
02 Nov 16 The Live Simply Award – a personal view
Do you remember the days of “The Parish Mission”? If you are under 50 then probably not, as they seem to have largely gone out of fashion. They were often a week-long affair where a non-diocesan priest would come into the parish and as well as preaching at Sunday mass would preach during the week […]
09 OCT 16 – Garforth Parish achieves ‘greenest in Leeds’ award.
St Benedict’s in Garforth recently celebrated gaining the Live Simply award and much of the following is courtesy of Katie Binns of the Leeds CAFOD office. The prestigious award, achieved by only 20 other parishes in England and Wales, was awarded to the parish in June with the official award ceremony at St Benedict’s on […]
‘Laudato Si’ and the Leeds Diocese conference & AGM 07 Nov 15
After John Battle (Chair) had taken us swiftly through what the Commission had been up in the last 12 months we moved into a half-day of hearing about, discussing and committing to action about Climate Change.Ellen Teague, catholic journalist and part of the Columban JPIC team, went through some of the key concepts in the […]
Climate Coalition Mass lobby of Parliament 17 June 2015
The Climate Coalition brought together hundreds of different organisations to take part in a mass lobby of MP’s to ensure that all our newly elected MP’s understood the strength of feeling in the country about the impacts of Climate Change and that we want the Government to support concrete action to reduce carbon emissions. At […]