Posted Friday 1 May 2009
Learning how to manage your church’s carbon footprint is the subject of a new action pack to be issued soon from Eco-Congregation Scotland (ECS).
In preparing the course material for this 13th ECS module, the compilers worked out the carbon footprint of about 20 church buildings from their fuel bills.
The results ranged from 20 tonnes of CO2 a year to 150 tonnes.
Just to put that in perspective, the average UK citizen’s annual output is 10 tonnes, while Bangladesh produces 0.3 tonnes per person.
Of course, the church buildings in the survey differed a lot in size and in the way they were used.
And the research didn’t calculate what congregation members were contributing to global warming.
But doing that is a major part of this new module.
As the authors say: “Reducing the carbon footprint of your church is just the beginning… the collective footprint of a congregation will almost always be far larger than the footprint of the church buildings. So the next step is to take action in your own lives.”
ECS Module 13: Managing Your Carbon Footprint is at the pre-publication review stage right now. Visit www.ecocongregation.org/Scotland.
Category: Church in Society Action Network, Property Action Network, Stewardship Action Network
