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Bearwood Baptist Church is working towards eco-churchthe Ecochurch Award.



FutureLearn provide youth mental health courses to explore and understand the mental health issues that affect young people. Their course ‘Young People and Their Mental Health’ has been created for young people aged over 14 wanting to know more about mental health. It might also be of interest to parents, caregivers, teachers and medical professionals.

Professor Sam Berry issues a heartfelt challenge to evangelicals to recognise that mankind's role of steward of creation lies at the heart of Scripture and should be close to the heart of all who are committed to the creator. He then takes a local church perspective and tells St Nicholas Church in Sevenoaks'  story of their journey to becoming an eco-congregation.

For Tomorrow Too, from Tearfund, offers some practical suggestions to reduce your personal contribution to climate change: small changes that could help do the world some good.

The Climate Change Tracker enables you to see the potential effects of climate change in your region over the next century.

Friends of the Earth campaigns for solutions to environmental problems. 

Recycling

Local recycling facilities

Recycle More is the one-stop recycling information centre. You will find help and advice on all aspects of recycling at home, at school and in the workplace.

Waste Watch is a leading environmental organisation working to change the way people use the world's natural resources.

RecycleNow wants you to recycle more stuff more often. Most people already recycle to some degree and this campaign is designed to encourage everyone to do a bit more.

Global Action Plan is the practical environmental charity that helps people to make positive changes at home, at work, at school and in the wider community. By working together, we make the small changes that have a big impact on the things that matter.

Energy

Our local Energy Efficiency Advice Centre offers advice on reducing energy wastage and can tell you about grants and offers available.

The Energy Saving Trust is one of the UK's leading organisations set up to address the damaging effects of climate change, and aims is to cut emissions of carbon dioxide by promoting the sustainable and efficient use of energy.

Green Electricity Marketplace gives you details of all of the 'green' tariffs on offer to UK domestic customers.

The Centre for Alternative Technology, Europe's leading eco-centre, showing practical solutions to environmental problems to carry us into the twenty-first century.

Transport

Transport 2000 is the independent national body concerned with sustainable transport. It looks for answers to transport problems and aims to reduce the environmental and social impact of transport by encouraging less use of cars and more use of public transport, walking and cycling.

Sustrans is the UK's leading sustainable transport charity. Our vision is a world in which people can choose to travel in ways that benefit their health and the environment. Every day we are working on practical, innovative ways of dealing with the transport challenges that affect us all.

Do you believe it is time to give the streets back to people on foot - to recreate living streets? Why not sign up to this campaign for streets that are more people-friendly and less dominated by traffic.

Holiday

Climate Stewards (from A Rocha International) is an international conservation organization working to show God’s love for all creation.

The CarbonNeutral Company has developed a range of calculators which enable individuals and businesses to measure their carbon emissions resulting from various activities.

We can all take simple steps to reduce the amount of CO2 we produce, and we can also offset the rest.  Offsetting means paying for the damage we are causing, and helping to fund transition to a lower-carbon world. Climate Care offsets your CO2 by funding projects around the world.

Green Globe is the worldwide benchmarking and certification programme to the travel and tourism industry.

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