Diocesan Green Group, Author at Dialogue

Heat pumps now an affordable proven technology

December 1, 2025

Heat pumps are an amazing new technology that is invaluable in our struggle to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and make our planet liveable for our children and grandchildren. In our 2021 Diocesan Synod in the resolution on climate change we committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 in our churches and in our personal lives to strive to reduce our carbon footprint. As individuals we have control over emissions in four main sectors: our buildings, transportation,

Taking Action

August 25, 2025

Daily we hear of so much suffering in the world, we can easily feel overwhelmed. What can we do? We might choose to slow down, think about it and pick one thing that we believe we can take on. Perhaps we might ask, “What is calling us?” The Diocese of Ontario Green Group has chosen to focus on care for creation. We are all part of God’s world. Christians are people of the Word and people of action. So again

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Changing the Way People Treat the Earth: Green Group annual conference

June 9, 2025

The Diocese of Ontario Green Group is delighted to announce its upcoming third annual conference, taking place on September 20, 2025, at Christ Church Kingston, with Luke Wilson, CEO of A Rocha Canada, as the plenary speaker. This event marks a significant milestone in the group’s long-standing interest in A Rocha’s work and mission. The Green Group first learned about A Rocha through Rev. Dr. Ian Ritchie, who shared his experiences at one of the group’s early meetings. Since then,

Report on reducing emissions in Diocese of Ontario churches

May 13, 2024

The 2021 Synod passed a resolution addressing our responsibilities under the Fifth Mark of Mission of the Anglican Communion: to “strive to safeguard the integrity of creation, and sustain and renew the life of the earth.” Clause 4 of the resolution calls upon our parishes to: “continue the development of action plans including reducing our carbon footprint by 50% by 2030 over 2018 levels and to report annually to synod council on the progress being made.” To assess the progress

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Are you looking for solutions?

June 1, 2023

The world knows we are facing a severe climate crisis. Scientists tell us how little time we have left to respond. Our leaders talk of change but the pace of action is painfully slow. As Christians, are we feeling some urgency in God’s call to be good stewards of this beautiful and suffering creation? Are we looking for solutions? This is a collective problem. Together we have made this mess and together we must clean it up. It will take

In the foreground a concrete surface with a few decorative things on the surface. A small blue sign with yellow text reads "Camino de Santiago. Camino Portuges."

The bottle at the Cross

March 1, 2023

When you walk outside for weeks, day after day, through farmlands, villages, vineyards, along rivers, over hills and through forests you cannot help but see and feel the beauty of creation. Such a walk is the Portuguese Camino de Santiago. It is over 600 kilometres when walking from Lisbon to Santiago de Compostela. Sadly, along with the beauty of creation, there is a lot of litter. Much of it appears to be left by pilgrims walking to Santiago. There are

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Reducing heat loss/lowering heating costs in your church: a new tool available in the Diocese of Ontario

December 1, 2022

The 2021 Synod of the Diocese of Ontario passed a motion that the parishes should “reduce their carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 over 2018 levels and to report annually to Synod Council on progress being made”. The period is short and the challenge large; how can the parishes respond? The Diocesan Green Group developed a website discussing implications of this resolution and providing information about options to achieve the goal (visit https://www.ontario.anglican.ca/creation). In this brief article, we report on

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