Footsteps Faiths for a Low Carbon Future
Footsteps brings together faith groups in Birmingham, to respond to the challenge of moving to a low carbon future.
What is Footsteps?
Many faith communities are taking their own actions to help the environment; by coming together we can take footsteps side-by-side towards our common goal. The main way Footsteps does this is by organising interfaith and multi-faith events to explore our responses to the high carbon present, and take action towards a low carbon future.
Footsteps (Faiths for a Low Carbon Future) is a project of Birmingham Council of Faiths reg. charity no. 1015006
How Can I Get Involved?
Check our events listing, to see the Footsteps events. These are open to people of all faiths and no particular faith in Birmingham, who are concerned about the challenge of moving to a low carbon future, and how we can work together to achieve this.
Our Work Footsteps works on six key themes, plus annual focus themes
Faith & Values
The world’s major faith traditions share values that underpin their action on climate change.
Community
Footsteps provides spaces where people can share faith perspectives on the environment and take ideas back into their own communities and places of worship.
Earth Care
Many faith traditions share the belief that we have a collective responsibility to care for the earth and its people.
Encouragement
Footsteps provides encouragement to those directly involved at place of worship, faith community and city level.
Climate Emergency
Across the world, leaders of both faith communities and cities recognise that we face a crisis and are speaking out.
Young People
Footsteps endeavours to involve young people in its work and activities, not least because young people will be the generation most affected by, but which has done least to cause, climate change.
Faith Community Map
The BCF Footsteps Birmingham Faith Community map contains information about Birmingham’s 800+ places of worship and faith-based organisations.
Saving Energy
Helping Birmingham’s faith communities move to a low carbon future in practical and locally based ways are important areas of Footsteps’ ongoing work.
Statements & Reports
Footsteps has written letters to leaders, made statements and published reports on key climate issues over the past five years.
