This article shows how carbon emissions in many parts of the world are growing and the scale of change needed. https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-019-02711-4/index.html
Of course those in the wealthy West have by far the highest per capita carbon footprint, and much of that actually shows up in less-developed countries where the heavy industry is now concentrante; many of these goods (steel, cars etc) will be imported to richer countries like Britain.
To calculate your Carbon Footprint see how it compares with others, and for suggestions as to how to reduce it go to https://www.carbonindependent.org
Now that the Swarthmoor Hall exhibition has finished, the beautiful panels and the accompanying texts (on our Gallery Page) are available for display . Please contact us at lovingearthproject@gmail.com if you’d like to borrow them, saying when you would want them and where they will be shown. We will have to ask you to pay for postage unless you can collection them from a London address. They can easily be sent in the post and they are simple to hang.
The first workshop for the Loving Earth Project was with a small group of Quakers aged from 4 to their late 60s. In a 40-minute session, we thought about something we love that is in danger from environmental break-down, and how we might influence the threat to it through our own actions.
designs we sketched on paper. We, also had some interesting discussions about how our own actions connected with what is happening to the environment, and how it affects these creatures and places.
made into textile panels.
