Reducing carbon and wider ecological footprints

Setting targets for reducing your own and your church's carbon emissions.

Energy efficiency and renewable energy in your vicarage and other properties:

• Guidance on energy efficiency and renewable energy in housing.
• Publicising how your congregation can improve insulation in their houses, to help reduce fuel poverty, the Diocese's scheme with CosyDevon.
• Re insulation in your vicarage, contact the Property Services Department in the Diocese.
• Purchasing green gas and/or electricity in your vicarage and other church properties, the Diocese's scheme with Ecotricity.

Ideas for reducing water consumption in your vicarage.

Guidance on undertaking an energy efficiency or renewable energy project in your church.
Case studies of how other churches have gone about energy projects.

Green resources