David Gould has written this briefing paper as a follow up to the JRI webinar he presented with Paul Woods in July 2023 – the full paper can be downloaded as a pdf here. According to the UN Secretary General: “our planet is broken – humanity is waging a suicidal …
As Dr Katharine Hayhoe, Chief Scientist at the US Nature Conservancy, stated in her Facebook page, on 23rd August, “It is easy to focus on the negative and feel defeated [on the climate crisis], especially when it seems to be coming for us from every angle. In a 2021 survey …
Hannah Gray meets the author and reviews The Joyful Environmentalist: In my role as an A Rocha volunteer speaker, I was invited to speak at an event in Halesworth, Suffolk in September. The Halesworth Climate Action Conference was a 3-day series of talks, workshops, art and eating, jointly hosted by …
JRI folk are often out and about speaking at churches and events, sometimes representing JRI and sometimes other organisations whose values and aims overlap with our own. We don’t often share these in the newsletter or on this site but a recent event Martin and Margot attended gives a sense …
Harriet Carty, director of Caring for God’s Acre will be joining us on 12th October at 7.30pm to talk about why churchyards and other burial grounds are so important for biodiversity, public green space, social history. Her talk will touch on key habitats or species that they may contain, why …
I read ‘The Forest Underground’ whilst on holiday in France during a heatwave, though the temperatures didn’t approach the baking heat of the Sahel, where this book is set. The content is half autobiography and half commentary on a specific approach to environmental restoration. It is a pleasure to read, …
