Is This Your Year? Apply for a QEW Mini-Grant!

Aug 9, 2015 | Resources

Has your meeting been dreaming of creating a community garden, harvesting rainwater, relandscaping to make use of native plants, putting in a low-flush toilet, or otherwise improving the energy efficiency of your meeting house or neighborhood? QEW makes grants...

SEYM Breaks New Ground with Field Secretary for Earthcare

Aug 9, 2015 | Resources

SEYM Breaks New Ground with Field Secretary for Earthcare By Barbara Letsch and Brad Stocker This April, Southeastern Yearly Meeting gathered and among other decisions Friends took a huge leap of faith. They established a new, full-time position under the care and...

Measuring What Matters

Aug 9, 2015 | Resources

By Mary Gilbert, QEW Representative to the UN Measure what you treasure…or you might just treasure what you measure. Imagine for a moment that you are the chief statistician of your country. You regularly generate data on everything your nation asks for, along with...

Don’t Google That!

Aug 9, 2015 | Resources

By Brad Stocker If you’re searching for something online, you can find what you need and donate to your favorite cause at the same time by using Goodsearch as your search tool. Goodsearch is a search engine that donates a penny per search to the cause of your choice,...

An Earth Testimony

Aug 9, 2015 | Quaker Testimonies, Resources

By Adrian Ayres Fisher. Once during Meeting for Worship, a member spoke of how she had always heard the saying that Friends should walk cheerfully over the earth…speaking to that of God in everyone. Then she read what George Fox actually wrote: that we should...