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What are your core values

Our core values are

-    The need to live more in tune with the earth – people of the future will look back on the twenty first century and characterise it in terms of whether or not human beings learnt to live in more harmonious way with the earth and its other creatures.

-  The recognition that this will require a deep transformation of both our inner lives and our societies.

-  The intention to draw on a hope found in the Judaeo-Christian faith of a peace that will come to embrace the whole creation

While recognising the specific calling of this age to engage with the issues presented by our relationship with the natural world, we also embrace established human concerns for justice in human relations and the need to listen and respond to the needs of the most disadvantaged people among us.

We recognise common interests with other environmental initiatives coming from a Christian root and will seek to work with other organisations such as A Rocha, Eco-Congregation and Christian Ecology Link as much as possible.

We also recognise shared values with other movements, who may not embrace our spiritual hopes, at least as we articulate them, but who would share many other commitments with us.

-  Foremost among these is Permaculture, with its design for a ‘permanent culture’ reaching beyond the construction of growing systems into the very nature of society and community, and described as care for the earth, care for people and recognition of the necessary limits to consumption.

-  We support the values of Community Development that build on the assertion that within communities there is a wealth of knowledge and experience, which, if used in creative ways, can be channelled into collective action to achieve the communities’ desired goals.

-  We find considerable synergy with the Transition Network and its creative grassroots response to the issues of climate change, peak oil and the need for a low carbon, energy efficient and locally resilient future.

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