Category: Sustainability
Advice and tips on how to run your building, and use all resources sustainably.
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#AdventWord 2019: 13 Water
Today’s #AdventWord water has such symbolism and power. Over 70% of earth’s surface is covered in water, and all living organisms need water to live. Water can be seen both positively or negatively: washing clean or depositing detritus as it slows; creating landscapes or weathering/destroying as it moves; supporting you as you float or dragging
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#AdventWord 2019: 8 Worthy
Today’s #AdventWord comes on a Sabbath – a time of rest. Although as I opened up for Meeting for Worship, set up the chairs, took in the coffee and milk for the refreshments, did the washing up and am writing this post now… I’ve not managed to keep the day as purely for rest and
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Quaker A-Z: G is for gifts
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. Qf&P 3.22 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in
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Quaker A-Z: S is for Sustainability & Stewardship
These are two words with complementary meanings. Sustainability In general terms, sustainability is the endurance of systems and processes. The organizing principle for sustainability is sustainable development, which includes the four interconnected domains: ecology, economics, politics and culture. At BYM Canterbury in 2009 Quakers made a corporate decision to become a sustainable low-carbon community. Receiving
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Quaker A-Z: Q is for Quality and Quakers
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. Q is for Quality Quaker used to be synonymous with Quality – hence the picture of a Quaker on the oatmeal pack. 23.62 The attempt to identify and apply Christian values in practice is a struggle laid upon each generation. As
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Quaker A-Z: L is for Learning and Lights
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. L is for Learning and Lights Learning and Light are things Quakers talk about regularly, although perhaps not always in relation to premises. How do you involve other members of the meeting in learning about the meeting house as a building?
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Quaker A-Z: G is for Garden
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project click here for more information. G is for Gardens Many Meeting Houses have gardens or burial grounds or both… During the Woodbrooke “AM Properties: Spiritual & Strategic Resources” course I attended last year several Trustees brought up burial grounds as a problem. ‘Tis a complicated subject with
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Quaker A-Z F: Fair Trade Churches & First Aid
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project click here for more information. F is for Fair Trade & First Aid Fair Trade Churches Fair Trade Fortnight was 24 February – 9 March 2014 this year – did you do anything? A Meeting House can become a Fair Trade Church – a small but significant step
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Quaker A-Z E is for Equality & Environment
This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project click here for more information. E is for Equality and Environment Environment Here I’m not thinking of our green and pleasant land, but around the Meeting House inside and out. According to Quaker Faith & Practice – Elders have a responsibility to ensure ‘the right holding of
