Activities

	Hold a ‘no-car Sunday’. Where there are those with mobility difficulties, organise a ‘pick up and take home’ service.
	With the youth group (or anyone else interested!), take on a church allotment.
	Hold a six-monthly second-hand sale and donate the money raised to the church or A Rocha.
	Form a ‘green group’ in your church to develop the church’s environmental commitment. If at all possible, include your vicar or one of the church leaders in the group.
	As a small/cell group take an evening to work out your combined ecological footprint. The World Wildlife Fund has a good calculator, found on their ‘one planet future’ page.
	Over a period of time work together to reduce your combined footprint. See how much you can reduce it by.
	Sign up to the Conservation Foundation’s Parish Pump News for lots of useful advice and inspiring stories.
	Run a campaign in your church for everyone to bring their own mugs each week, cutting down on the need to wash up (whilst of course still keeping some mugs available for visitors or those who forget).
	Conduct a survey of local pubs and/or shops on how much they recycle. Take the results to your local Council and discuss how the recycling rate could be improved.
	Install a ‘green’ notice-board (with, eg., car sharing groups, local bus timetables, contact details of local environmental groups, other green initiatives…).
	Hold a mission weekend with the theme, ‘Poverty, Wealth and the Environment’.
	Ensure that environmental issues are one of the criteria for choosing the church’s missionary partners.
	Have an annual visit to a local nature reserve.
	Get the youth group to conduct a survey of their schools to see how green they are. Look at what they could do in response.
	Hold a ‘green fair’ for your community/town/city, opening up your building for people to set up stall (eg. local council recycling or composting initiatives, local energy efficiency advisory, local Agenda 21 representative, local food stalls, Friends of the Earth and/or A Rocha group etc).