{"id":143180,"date":"2026-02-10T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143180"},"modified":"2026-02-10T18:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:48:02","slug":"hampshire-chronicle-romsey-abbey-recognised-for-its-environmental-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143180","title":{"rendered":"(Hampshire Chronicle) Romsey Abbey recognised for its environmental targets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk\/news\/romsey\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Romsey<\/a>&nbsp;Abbey has been named a Demonstrator Church as part of the Church of England&#8217;s ambition to become net zero by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The abbey is currently working with two heritage consultancy firms to explore sustainable upgrades to its lighting and heating systems, with partial funding from the Church of England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jan Bartlett, lead churchwarden for the zero carbon initiative at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk\/news\/romsey\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Romsey<\/a>&nbsp;Abbey, said: &#8220;The CofE\u2019s Demonstrator Churches project aims to support high carbon emitting churches with zero carbon projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Romsey Abbey is fortunate to have been selected for Demonstrator Church status and this year we will be receiving financial support towards the technical advice we need to take forward our heating and lighting projects.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk\/news\/25829502.romsey-abbey-recognised-environmental-targets\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Abbey working towards a greener future is recognised by Church of England <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TMdfMT3U0v\">https:\/\/t.co\/TMdfMT3U0v<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Hampshire Chronicle (@hantschronicle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hantschronicle\/status\/2020768906055454918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romsey&nbsp;Abbey has been named a Demonstrator Church as part of the Church of England&#8217;s ambition to become net zero by 2030. The abbey is currently working with two heritage consultancy firms to explore sustainable upgrades to its lighting and heating<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143180\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,683,199,184,108,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","category-ecology","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143180"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143186,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143180\/revisions\/143186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}