Northern Yearly Meeting Lights Up

By Shelley Tanenbaum, QEW General Secretary Northern Yearly Meeting (Minnesota, Wisconsin, and a bit more) meets on a lake in central Wisconsin to deepen worship, conduct business, and nurture connections among Friends in the upper Great Lakes region. This year, they...

Book Review: The Community-Scale Permaculture Farm

Book Review: The Community-Scale Permaculture Farm By Katherine Murray As I began to read The Community-Scale Permaculture Farm: The D Acres Model for Creating and Managing an Ecologically Designed Educational Center, by Josh Trought (Chelsea Green Publishing, March...

Being a Player

By Mary Gilbert, QEW Representative to the UN I’ve been attending meetings at the UN for more than 15 years and have often been asked “Do you ever get to ‘speak’ at the UN? What do you say?” I’ve explained that representatives from organizations like QEW may at times...

Divesting from Fossil Fuels in Cincinnati and Beyond

By Marjorie McKelvey Isaacs, Community Friends Cincinnati      Cincinnati…is always ten years behind the times. —Mark Twain When our Earthcare Committee clerk at the time, Bill Cahalan, first suggested that Community Friends in Cincinnati divest from coal, oil, and...

Video Resources to Share

On a recent visit to North Palm Beach Meeting, Mary Jo Klingel discovered that Palm Beach Friends are creating YouTube videos of their adult learning sessions. She discovered a wealth of video resources on a range of earthcare topics. A few representative samples:...