by Quaker Earthcare | Jul 30, 2024 | Uncategorized, Volume 37
Last month, Hawaiʻi officials announced a groundbreaking legal settlement to fully decarbonize Hawaiʻi’s transportation system by 2045. Thirteen youths from across Hawaiʻi brought the case in June 2022, arguing that their state’s transportation policies and practices...
by Quaker Earthcare | Jul 30, 2024 | Uncategorized, Volume 37
This past spring, Quaker Earthcare Witness hosted a vibrant and deeply engaging book group focused on Jennie Ratcliffe’s transformative book, Nothing Lowly in the Universe. From February through May 2024, participants gathered every other Monday to delve into the...
by Quaker Earthcare | Jul 30, 2024 | Uncategorized, Volume 37
By Nora Lisette Cooke In June 2022, I was in a house in Calvisson, France, house sitting for local Friends who lived just down the road from the Maison Quaker, where my parents were the amis-résidents (Friends in Residence). I had been on the Zoom call for close to...
by Quaker Earthcare | Jul 30, 2024 | Uncategorized, Volume 37
“Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the person but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it— at which point they can become human, too.” – Bayard Rustin Quaker Call to Action We see that truth, democracy,...
by Quaker Earthcare | Jul 30, 2024 | Uncategorized, Volume 37
by Molly McGinty The ongoing climate crisis and escalating threat of nuclear war pose the most acute threats to human and planetary survival. These twin existential threats to life are closely linked and mutually reinforcing, each requiring urgent action. In 2023, the...
