How can we help our earth

Thame Repair Café

Repair Cafés are free community events where skilled volunteers help people fix their own items to save them from going to waste. The focus is on skill-sharing and an enjoyable ongoing learning process.

Knowing how to fix things is a skill quickly being lost to our modern society and with a Repair Café invaluable practical knowledge is passed on. Items are being used for longer and don’t have to be thrown away. This reduces the volume of raw materials and energy needed to make new items. It cuts CO2 emissions for example, because manufacturing new products and recycling old ones causes CO2 to be released.

Details of Thame Repair Café: https://21stcenturythame.co.uk/2023/05/05/new-repair-cafe-thame/

Thame Community Larder

Community Larders are membership schemes open to anyone (no means testing), aimed at providing an affordable way to access healthy staple food, reduce food waste and improve the wellbeing of residents in the local area. The food is all surplus from supermarkets and is within ‘use by’ or 'best before' date.

The Thame Larder is held in the main hall at Christchurch URC/Methodist church in the Upper High Street, every Thursday afternoon from 2.30pm to 4.30pm, including a free community café.

More information here: https://www.sharinglifetrust.org/community-larder

Sustainable Development Goals

The World Evangelical Alliance has written reflections on the Sustainable Development Goals from a Christian perspective.

Have a read here

You can order a more detailed booklet on the same topic here

Climate Stories

Clink these links to watch short films about the effects of climate change around the world and some of the activists involved in fighting for change

https://www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-oxfam/climate-action/oxfam-and-waterear-present-climate-dispatches/

https://www.one.org/stories/climate-crisis-africa-documentaries-movies/

Thame Green Living

Adopted unanimously by Thame Town Council in July 2020, the Green Living Plan is a ten-year plan for a cleaner, greener Thame.

You can make a pledge here as a great way to start thinking and acting in a Green Living way:

https://www.thamegreenliving.org.uk/

Thame COP

Thame COP is a local version of the global COP climate summit.

At the global 'Conference Of The Parties' countries from around the world come together in a united effort to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. Every year during the global summit Thame COP invites the 'parties' of Thame: businesses, schools, faith organisations and groups, to do the same.

Find out more: https://thamecop.co.uk/

COP 30 Feedback

Read the attached document for an update on COP 30 feedback.