Category: Sustainability
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Energy Footprint Tool Deadline Approaches
The Energy Footprint Tool is the online software, developed for the SEC, to gather greenhouse gas emissions data from across the Province.
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Story: St Ninian’s Comely Bank launches a Community Climate Café
St Ninian’s Comely Bank recently hosted their first Climate Café for members of the congregation and local community.
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Case Study: Rosslyn Castle becomes net zero ready
Rosslyn Castle is one of Midlothian’s most important historic buildings. Home to St Matthew’s Chapel, the building itself is owned by the Rosslyn Chapel Trust.
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Events: Don’t miss our upcoming webinars on funding sustainable church buildings
This Thursday, join us for the next in our series of webinars, where major funders speak specifically into the context of Scottish Episcopal Churches.
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Story: The Blessing of a Bike Rack
Last Thursday, 3 October, saw a first for the Edinburgh Diocese – the blessing of a bike rack.
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Story: Diocesan Environment Gathering at Perth Cathedral
About sixty people gathered in Perth Cathedral from across the St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane diocese on Sunday 22nd September for the Diocesan Environment Net Zero Gathering.
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Story: St Mary’s Dunblane Finalists for the Green Church Awards
Towards the end of May, I got in touch with Rev Nerys Brown, encouraging St Mary’s Dunblane to enter for The Church Times Green Church Awards.
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Story: St Mary’s Cathedral respond to the climate crisis with creativity, collaboration and community
For those of us within reach of Edinburgh city centre, the grounds at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral have truly brightened up the rather dull summer we have had this year.
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Funding: First Rectory Green Fund Project Completed
St Mary-on-the-Rock in Ellon recently received funds from the new Rectory Green Fund to install loft and under-floor insulation.
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Worship: St Magnus Lerwick Celebrate the Season of Creation
Like many Scottish Episcopal Churches, St Magnus, Lerwick has been using liturgy for Creation-tide through September.
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Story: St Serf’s Burntisland Celebrate Bronze at the start of Creationtide
St Serf’s Episcopal Church in Burntisland was delighted to receive a special environmental award last Sunday as the congregation celebrated the first Sunday in the Season of Creation.
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Worship: Season of Creation – to hope and act with creation
The Season of Creation is the period within our liturgical calendar when we focus especially on our responsibility to care for God’s creation.
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Case Study: A church building becomes a community centre
St Martins of Tours is a Scottish Episcopal Church in Gorgie Dalry in Edinburgh. About 10 years ago (in the 2010s) the church started raising funds to renovate the building.
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Sustainability in Shetland: harnessing energy from waste
On a recent visit to Shetland in July 2024, Jack Nevin had the opportunity to tour the Shetland Waste to Energy Plant and the Shetland District Heating Facility.
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Sustainability in Shetland: A Visit to St Magnus and St Colman
Jack Nevin travelled to Shetland last month to visit with the charges of St Magnus in Lerwick and St Colman in Burravoe.