Canon Brian Wakelin reflects on a trip to visit Muhabura diocese in Uganda and issues of environmental care, sustainability and climate change. The Setting The Ugandan Diocese of Muhabura borders Rwanda and DR Congo. It is based in Kisoro – perhaps best known as a base to view mountain gorillas …
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 from the Briefings page. 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 …
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, …
