The Cool Places of Worship action strand is open to all places of worship and faith communities; it is a multi-faith project where people of different faiths work together as one to support, inspire, share and act to support the delivery of Cool 2 by reducing their carbon footprint and caring for our planet. All have an equal voice, are supported to be active, and engage in ways that work for them.
We are currently working with 14 core places of worship which can be seen as blue dots in the map above. The orange dots represent engaged places of worship.
A core Cool Place of Worship identifies an objective they want to work on. They then share this with others via the fortnightly online meetings or via Zarah who facilitates the project.
Other places of worship can decide to get involved and support the objective. Together they plan to host one or two workshops focused on the objective and actions they are taking as places of worship.
These actions contribute to their carbon reduction plan as well as providing learning points, giving ideas for changes they can make and informing their next steps towards becoming a net zero carbon place of worship.
Core Cool Places of Worship have focused on the following objectives, delivering information and workshop sessions:
We are currently working with 14 core places of worship which can be seen as blue dots in the map above. The orange dots represent engaged places of worship.
A core Cool Place of Worship identifies an objective they want to work on. They then share this with others via the fortnightly online meetings or via Zarah who facilitates the project.
Other places of worship can decide to get involved and support the objective. Together they plan to host one or two workshops focused on the objective and actions they are taking as places of worship.
These actions contribute to their carbon reduction plan as well as providing learning points, giving ideas for changes they can make and informing their next steps towards becoming a net zero carbon place of worship.
Core Cool Places of Worship have focused on the following objectives, delivering information and workshop sessions:
- Fixing Food Systems (Social Supermarkets, Zero Food Waste, Fairtrade & Food Pantries)
- Make it Happen Birkenhead - Community hub, retail shop and social supermarket
- Wirral Zero Waste Community - If you are interested in volunteering, would like to advertise volunteering opportunities or have a space that can be used to sort and distribute food please email [email protected]
- Become a Fairtrade Place of Worship
- Energy & Heating (Energy Projects Plus, Introduction to Carbon Literacy, How to make you house energy efficient)
- Film Screening of ‘The Letter’ (pledges for action, global & community engagement)
- Youth Eco club (co-designing and delivering sessions on the environment and encouraging social actions with young faith communities)
- Fair Trade Quiz (raising awareness of Fairtrade, and biodiversity on the Wirral)
- Big Green Week- Tranmere
- Engaging with MPs/Councillors
- Travel Survey
