Met Office announcement of UK's hottest day in 2022 As a scientist, I am always trying to use the most reliable sources of information for my work. So that means papers in peer-reviewed journals, ...

Bodleian Library - Ben Elliot - Unsplash One of the challenges facing people wanting to communicate climate and environmental stories is how to reach outside the usual circles, one way of doing thi...

Earth with clouds above the African Continent - NASA - Unsplash What would you like to be remembered for?  What legacy will you leave after perhaps 80 years living on this planet? There is on...

Nature Based Solutions for a Water-Secure Future Hannah Gray Hannah is programme Manager for Nature-based Solutions with Water Resources East and formerly of Water Aid (some of you may remem...

Faith-based sustainable financing: How can churches best use both their assets and influence to accelerate the green transition? Webinar with Shilpita Matthews Shilpita is an environmental ec...

“Here comes the Sun” by veteran journalist and climate activist Bill McKibben was our February JRI book club read. Whilst this review reflects primarily my own opinions, I will at times mention the th...

Faith-based sustainable financing: How can churches best use both their assets and influence to accelerate the green transition? Webinar with Shilpita Matthews Shilpita is an environmental ec...

Like most people I knew of Patrick Grant from The Great British Sewing Bee and an episode of Desert Island Discs, but it was hearing him speak at the 2025 Greenbelt Festival which convinced me to buy ...

The paper looks at recent research on effective communication on social issues, and at climate change in particular.

Faith-based sustainable financing: How can churches best use both their assets and influence to accelerate the green transition? Webinar with Shilpita Matthews Shilpita is an environmental ec...

Webinar held on Zoom Thursday 12th March: Rev’d Rich Clarkson will be talking about his recent trip to the Solomon Islands on behalf of his diocese. The webinar will focus on what he saw ...

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Credit: Spencer Davis - Unsplash It was near midnight on a Northern Line train out of Manchester Picadilly when I first dipped my toe into the world of pre-loved fashion. Manchester Arena had just ...

Photo by Tobias - Unsplash How we talk about climate and nature matters. Taking the a familiar message and framing it differently can make a huge difference to how it is received. Finding ways to t...

In recent years advances in high definition filming and photography have enabled science and nature documentaries (think of Brian Cox and David Attenborough) to bring truly stunning imagery into our h...

Catechist George and Freda Fataka at Red Beach I am currently in the Solomon Islands, where I have been spending a fortnight visiting the Anglican Church of Melanesia on behalf of my own Diocese of...

Shelly Dennison rounds up four more climate fiction reads: As regular readers will know, this year I’ve been exploring the Climate Fiction Prize Longlist which has been introducing me to new autho...

Webinar with Dr Grace Milton Sadly, for some Christians their eschatology creates a barrier to any interest in caring for this world, but it does not have to be this way. This promises to be a fa...

Standing stone Clent Hills - photo credit Rich Clarkson As I write this I am sat in the woods on top of Clent Hills. Just behind me are four standing stones – whether they are ancient or not I do ...

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The Cuckoo Calls the Year front cover In this immensely engaging book, professional botanist Pete Stroh introduces us to the nature and landscapes on his doorstep. The premise is a straightforward ...

Author Abi Daré has been awarded the £10,000 prize for her second novel, And So I Roar.

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JRI Book Club Evocative, raw and lyrical, this startling debut explores the natural world through the eyes of Dara McAnulty, an autistic teenager coping with the uprooting of home, school, and his...

Leadership in an Environmentally Challenging World Keynote speakers: Bishop Graham Usher, Dr Martin Hodson How do Christian leaders and communities respond to environmental challenges? This ...

The Mars House by Natasha Pulley Shelly Dennison continues her reviews of the Climate Fiction Prize longlist: One of the positives of taking on a challenge like reading through the Climate Ficti...

Many of us find it easier to accept the reality of some feature of nature when we have a personal understanding of how it occurs. With this in mind, this briefing paper from Geoff Fishpool seeks to sh...

Orbital by Samantha Harvey (January 2025) Seeing Differently. Franciscans and Creation – Simon Cocksedge, Samuel Double & Nicholas Alan Worssam (October 2023) Refugia Faith. Seeking Hidde…

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Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU

Orbital by Samantha Harvey Shelly Dennison reviews the Booker Prize winning climate fiction novel Orbital by Samantha Harvey: The Climate Fiction Prize was launched at the Hay Festival in June 2...

To mark COP 29, Martin Hodson reflects on how to respond when the growing environmental challenges seem overwhelming.