Sustainable living
Barbara Panvel and Ali Jeffery report on the Central England Quaker Low Carbon Community Action Forum
Friends from Central England, Banbury and Evesham and Stafford Area Meetings were joined by two others involved in local low carbon initiatives on Saturday 24 May at Northfield Meeting House in Birmingham.
After a short period of worship the group walked to Northfield’s Ecocentre for a project update. For over five years it has offered local people an independent ‘sustainable living’ advice service and demonstrated good practice in energy and water conservation. Some staff are now professional energy assessors, trained to deliver advice to people struggling to meet bills and to housing associations. Other activities include bike hire, sewing (reusing or recycling materials), holding courses, running workshops, planting trees in woodlands, orchards, parks, school grounds and in the grounds of the Black Horse pub. An Urban Harvest project collects and uses fruit which otherwise would be wasted.
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