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  • 5 Feb 2012
    Charity, church and business leaders lobby government on community energy

    A coalition of civil society leaders from UK organisations with more than 12 million members has called on community energy to play a substantial role in meeting Britain''s climate change targets.

  • 30 Jan 2012
    Rio+20: The move toward a green economy

    In June 2012, the world's leaders will meet in Rio to set the global sustainability agenda for the next decade.

  • 24 Dec 2011
    The sun hasn’t set yet on solar energy, says Kirk

    The Church of Scotland has said it is not happy with the way a consultation into feed-in tariffs has been carried out.

  • 13 Dec 2011
    Low growth: opportunity or threat?

    Low growth offers us the opportunity to re-assess our values, says Jill Segger. She suggests that this may be the time to question consumer orthodoxies and to consider a more just and rational use of resources.

  • 8 Dec 2011
    Social attitudes: a challenge to faith communities

    Religious observance has declined over the years, the British Social Attitudes survey confirmed. The 28th report, published in December 2011, indicated that 50 per cent did not affiliate to a religion, and some who did seldom attended religious services or meetings.

  • 12 Oct 2011
    National Trust pressures government on sweeping planning changes

    The National Trust's ‘Up for Grabs' campaign against sweeping planning reforms is being strongly backed by community and environmental groups.

  • 2 Oct 2011
    Fast lane to nowhere

    “Slow down,you move too fast” In the 45 years which have passed since Paul Simon wrote the 59th Street Bridge Song, we have come to move a whole lot faster.

  • 30 Sep 2011
    Cambridge conference considers 'sustainability in crisis'

    Environmentalists scientists, educators and representatives of charities, NGOs and faith groups met in Cambridge 26-28 September to consider 'Sustainability in crisis'.

  • 28 Sep 2011
    Climate change, environment and human rights

    The Geneva Interfaith Forum on Climate Change, Environment and Human Rights is an informal group of faith-based NGOs that gathered in September 2011 to reaffirm the responsibility of each faith and spiritual tradition to care for the environment and to play a role in addressing climate change and its impact on the human rights of the world’s population. This is its call for action.

  • 21 Sep 2011
    Nuclear industry's hidden subsidy must be halted

    Friends of the Earth has welcomed a call on the coalition government to introduce a windfall tax on the operators of existing nuclear power plants.