by Publications Committee | Mar 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
FWCC World Plenary Hundreds of Friends from around the world (including several QEW Friends, as you’ll read in this issue) gathered recently in Pisac, Peru, for the Friends World Consultation Committee (FWCC) World Plenary. One of the planned goals for this meeting...
by Publications Committee | Mar 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
FWCC World Plenary Hundreds of Friends from around the world (including several QEW Friends, as you’ll read in this issue) gathered recently in Pisac, Peru, for the Friends World Consultation Committee (FWCC) World Plenary. One of the planned goals for this meeting...
by Publications Committee | Mar 9, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, Number 2, Uncategorized, Volume 29, Youth & Young Friends
By Shelley Tanenbaum. When we talk about how global warming will affect the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet, or when we talk about how countries that have historically emitted the most carbon have a greater carbon debt than those with smaller carbon...
by Publications Committee | Jan 9, 2016 | Activism, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Number 1, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By Shelley Tanenbaum, QEW General Secretary. You’ve probably heard that saying, “Up a creek without a paddle.” Just a few years ago, when it came to climate change, we were all up a dead-end creek in a leaky little boat without a paddle. Post-Paris and the...
by Publications Committee | Jan 9, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Number 1, Uncategorized, Volume 29
By Bob McGahey After years of fraught negotiations, we have a climate accord. Just getting 195 countries with different, sometimes conflicting, interests to agree was a miracle of sorts. The document breaks new ground by aiming to hold the average temperature rise...