Reduce your carbon footprint for Lent — bishops

Posted on February 17, 2010 
Filed under News

“British church leaders are encouraging people to give up their iPods for Lent, to help save the planet. The Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, and the Bishop of Liverpool, James Jones, are among those calling for a carbon fast for Lent…”

– Report from News.com.au. See the related Tearfund UK press release –  and also this from Kairos (Canada) ‘Carbon Fast for Lent’.

(Lent used to be a time of reflecting on the Lord Jesus Christ and what he laid aside in order to save men and women from hell.) Photo: Bishop Richard Chartres.