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Spirituality of Wind Farms?

By Jolyon | 8 October, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Climate Change, helm |

In the last couple of days I have read a number of articles and posts about wind farms and their unsightly effect on the NZ landscape. Several have also commented …

Heating

By Jolyon | 14 August, 2007 | 4 Comments | Posted in helm |

The current bar heaters around the walls of the church draw 17.5kw and are run for about 5 hours on a Sunday morning. Our new electricity rates are 12.287 cents/kwh. …

Audit results – paper

By Jolyon | 13 August, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in helm |

We have now set two cardboard trays in each office – one for paper reusable on one side, one for paper to be recycled. The sensitive documents and past accounts …

Audit results – compost.

By Jolyon | 13 August, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in helm |

St John’s now has three large compost bins set up behind the church building; all the garden scraps go into these bins to make mulch. In the two kitchens there …

Red-herring?

By Jolyon | 2 August, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in Environment, helm |

Is the new bio fuel debate a red-herring? It feels to me as if the new bio-fuel initiative from Gull – along with recycling and much of what goes on …

HELM Audit

By Jolyon | 12 June, 2007 | 3 Comments | Posted in helm |

Although our audit is a bit of a blunt instrument, what we are looking for is a baseline and movement value rather than absolute accuracy.

A couple of interesting results, I …

First steps

By Jolyon | 12 June, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in helm |

Presented a sermon on the theological motivation for ecological concern (always feels like you’ve done something when you talk about it).

The Helm group met for the first time and decided …

Who is HELM?

By Jolyon | 10 June, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in helm |

At St John’s Roslyn and St Mary’s Mornington we are attempting to become sustainable in our lifestyles and church practice. As a church community we were not particularly environmentally minded …