by Publications Committee | May 1, 2019 | 2019, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Number 2, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Volume 32
By Paula Kline. Alan Wright and Paula Kline first took students to the Mexican Cloud Forest in 2003. Teachers at Westtown School in southeastern Pennsylvania, the couple had initiated the Quaker school’s agriculture program for its bi-centennial in 1999. Inspired by...
by Publications Committee | Feb 6, 2019 | 2019, Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, January-February-March, New & Exploring, Number 1, Practical, Uncategorized, Volume 32
Josephine Ferorelli created this flow chart—a helpful resource for anyone who doesn’t know where to start. Josephine is the co-founder and co-director of Conceivable Future, a women-led network bringing awareness to the threat climate change poses to reproductive...
by Publications Committee | Feb 6, 2019 | 2019, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Uncategorized, United Nations, Volume 32
By Philip Emmi. It is increasingly clear that we have gotten off on the wrong foot when addressing climate change. It can not be primarily a matter of nation-state cooperation on international policy, as once thought. Rather, addressing climate change requires a...
by Publications Committee | Feb 6, 2019 | 2019, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, United Nations, Volume 32
By Lindsey Fielder Cook. THE AIM OF THE DECEMBER climate change conference in Poland, known as the Conference of Parties 24 (or COP24), was to define an implementation ‘Rulebook’ for the Paris Agreement. After two weeks of exhausting, if not ‘fierce’ negotiations,...
by Publications Committee | Feb 6, 2019 | 2019, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, January-February-March, Number 1, Volume 32
By Keith Voos. I’M SURE THAT MOST readers of this newsletter hold it to be true that the human race now faces the biggest threat to its survival since its near extinction in the last ice age, when the population of the earth was reduced to between 15,000 and 18,...
