How can we help our earth
Thame Repair Café
Repair Cafés are free community events where skilled volunteers help people fix their own items to save them from going to waste. The focus is on skill-sharing and an enjoyable ongoing learning process.
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Knowing how to fix things is a skill quickly being lost to our modern society and with a Repair Café invaluable practical knowledge is passed on. Items are being used for longer and don’t have to be thrown away. This reduces the volume of raw materials and energy needed to make new items. It cuts CO2 emissions for example, because manufacturing new products and recycling old ones causes CO2 to be released.
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Details of Thame Repair Café: https://21stcenturythame.co.uk/2023/05/05/new-repair-cafe-thame/
Thame Community Larder
Community Larders are membership schemes open to anyone (no means testing), aimed at providing an affordable way to access healthy staple food, reduce food waste and improve the wellbeing of residents in the local area. The food is all surplus from supermarkets and is within ‘use by’ or 'best before' date.
The Thame Larder is held in the main hall at Christchurch URC/Methodist church in the Upper High Street, every Thursday afternoon from 2.30pm to 4.30pm, including a free community café.
More information here: https://www.sharinglifetrust.org/community-larder
Climate Stories
Clink these links to watch short films about the effects of climate change around the world and some of the activists involved in fighting for change
https://www.one.org/stories/climate-crisis-africa-documentaries-movies/
Thame Green Living
Adopted unanimously by Thame Town Council in July 2020, the Green Living Plan is a ten-year plan for a cleaner, greener Thame.
You can make a pledge here as a great way to start thinking and acting in a Green Living way:
Thame COP
Thame COP is a local version of the global COP climate summit.
At the global 'Conference Of The Parties' countries from around the world come together in a united effort to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. Every year during the global summit Thame COP invites the 'parties' of Thame: businesses, schools, faith organisations and groups, to do the same.
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Find out more: https://thamecop.co.uk/
COP29 11-22 Nov 2024
The next international climate conference, COP29, convenes in Baku, Azerbaijan. The president-designate for COP29, Mukhtar Babayev, is a former vice-president at state-owned oil and gas company Socar, and is refusing to consider reassessing Azerbaijan’s oil and gas economy. Despite this, we call on Christians to amplify the voices of those suffering the impacts of climate breakdown, and pray.
You could use this prayer from CAFOD:
God of blessings,
the universe sings of your glory.
Deepen our gratitude for all you have made
and awaken in us a renewed commitment
to care for the earth and each other.
Inspire world leaders at COP29,
with openness to listen to those most affected by climate change
and with courage to act urgently and wisely,
so that our common home may be healed and restored
and all people, and generations to come, may delight in it.
Amen.
Tearfund Ambassador Laura Young will be attending COP29. She has these prayer requests:
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Pray for our world leaders, scientists, and activists that God would grant them wisdom, compassion, and unity in their efforts to address climate change and protect creation for future generations.
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Pray for people living in poverty, who bear the heaviest burden of climate change despite contributing the least to its causes. May their voices be heard, their needs be met, and justice be at the heart of every decision.
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Pray for all of us to be better stewards of the environment, working together in peace for this beautiful world God has given us.
Green Christian are holding online prayer 8.00-8.10am each morning during COP29:
