An exercise for Lent

On this Ash Wednesday, Ecopenitent, from the USA, requests that EarthAbbey members join together in developing a statement of penitence and prayer regarding our behaviour on the earth. She has drafted something for us to start us off…

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Starting your own Grow Zones group

What is Grow Zones?

All over the UK groups of people are discovering the delights of growing their own food. The Grow Zones project from EarthAbbey is a resource to help you get organised in your community. It aims to bring help and inspiration to your garden, wonderful food to your table, and fun and friendship to your life. A group of anything between 8 and 20 people club together to share skills and tools and help each other to transform their gardens, with the aim of growing more fruit and veg, decreasing food miles and having great fun in the process. Some groups may choose to work a community space together instead of gardens.

The story so far

The story of a personal journey - from Dunwedin

It’s just one year since I took a day out to think and pray about what God was saying. My husband had just finished renovating our house, and it looked beautiful. But it still backed onto a railway line, so that gave him 2 reasons to want to move: a new DIY project and somewhere peaceful, preferably the country. And he wanted a dog…

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We are gods and we have to get good at it?

Stewart Brand’s new book ‘Whole Earth Discipline’ marks him out as ‘post green’. The book is a mine of fascinating and challenging information advocating the use of nuclear energy, GM crops and geo-engineering to solve climate change. But it is more than facts. It depends on a particular view of human nature.

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How do we respond?

There are a range of spiritualities and belief systems represented among environmentalists. Encountering some of them for the first time can be a provocative experience. It can be difficult to know how to respond. Mari Shackell has sent in a story that asks important questions.

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The New Story

Thomas seemed like such a quiet, unassuming man as I sat across from him in the nursing home and as I watched the interviews with him that the Pachamama Alliance included in their Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium.  Yet the more I contemplate the new cosmology he so consistently and deeply points to with his writings, thoughts, and life, the more I wonder at the breadth of his vision and the potential of his gift to open up a sustainable future.  While that sustainable future is still up to us to manifest and it is not assured that we will succeed, I believe it would have been extremely improbable without his gift.

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The view from rural Cumbria

How does it feel to be living in the heart of the countryside and trying to put EarthAbbey principles into practice. Here is an inspiring vision from Cumbria for a prayer/centred rural community working the land.

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A Review of the Year 2009

It is just over a year now since we made our first tentative forays into launching EarthAbbey. It has been a fascinating experience and it feels like time for a brief review.

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Waiting for what? 3. Words to be translated into action

What do we say after Copenhagen? Let’s not fool ourselves, this conference has proved what we are up against. Our leaders have failed to agree on legally binding emissions targets. The spiritual struggle has possibly never been more obvious. And now as we face the task of turning fine words into action can we draw inspiration from The Word who became flesh?

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Waiting for what? 2. A vision to dawn

As nations lock horns in Copenhagen and a serious deal looks unlikely, it is time to recognise that the situation demands a new vision, not a rearranging of the deckchairs.

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