by Publications Committee | Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, Action-Oriented, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, January-February-March, Meetings Taking Action, Minutes on Earthcare, Number 1, Practical, Quaker-Specific, Volume 33
By Patricia Finley, Ruth Darlington, Liz Robinson, and the Eco-Justice Collaborative of PYM. MORE THAN 50 FRIENDS gathered on a snowy morning at Germantown Monthly Meeting on January 18 to learn, share, and discern how to effectively address environmental injustice...
by Publications Committee | Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, January-February-March, Number 1, Spirituality, Volume 33
By Ruah Swennerfelt. MANY, MANY YEARS ago, after having a deep-felt conversation with my father, who wanted to blindly trust his government, I gave him Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner. I chose that book because Dad lived in Southern California, a desert turned into a...
by Publications Committee | Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Volume 33
By Mary Ann Iyer. The cells of this earth are our cells. The wind that blows across its surface is the self same air that we breathe. Our life blood courses through our veins with no less certainty than the rivers cascading to the sea. And what are we to make of this?...
by Publications Committee | Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Volume 33
By Judy Lumb. HOW DO WE ensure a future on Earth for humans and other creatures? Three recent reports analyze solutions to climate change that meet the ambition of the Paris Agreement. The Climate Urgency: Setting Sail for a New Paradigm Coopération Internationale...
by Publications Committee | Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Volume 33
By Shelley Tanenbaum. THE MOST RECENT Conference of the Parties (COP), held in Madrid, Spain in December, appeared to balance the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 on a knife’s edge, a sharpened knife’s edge. Lindsey Cook of Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) referred...
