Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, Action-Oriented, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Divestment, Number 1, Renewable Energy, Volume 36
by Kathy Barnhart. At the beginning of each Meeting for Business at Strawberry Creek Meeting in Berkeley, California, a committee responds to one of the Advices and Queries in our Pacific Yearly Meeting’s Faith and Practice. Last month our Communications Committee...
May 27, 2022 | 2022, Action-Oriented, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Biology, Climate Change, Individuals Taking Action, Number 2, Permaculture, Sustainability, Timely, Volume 35
By Jim Kessler. Native plants are adapted to the local area and its climate. Unfortunately, many of our beautiful non-native garden flowers provide little or no food for honeybees, native pollinators, songbirds, and other wildlife. Non-native plants have the potential...
Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, Action-Oriented, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Indigenous Peoples, Individuals Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
How do you ask a community to be the last to sacrifice their land to support the dying fossil fuel industry? by Shelley Tanenbaum. In September I had the privilege of spending about a week on the frontline at Red Lake Treaty Camp, a spiritual and ceremonial camp in...
Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, Action-Oriented, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
by Joseph Cotham. The United States and Canada have committed to the conservation of 30% of the land and waters of the United States by 2030. The U.S.’ 30×30 initiative has evolved into the America the Beautiful campaign, a national call to action that is...
Mar 2, 2021 | 2021, Action-Oriented, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Peoples, January-February-March, Number 1, Timely, Volume 34
By Hayley Hathaway and Ruth Darlington. “If we’re going to Build Back Better, we need to do better. And that starts by putting Indigenous people and their voices first, before any [fossil fuels] project is put in place…It is our Indigenous right to protect what...
Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Practical, Quaker-Specific, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Volume 33
By Dale Evarts. IN AUGUST 2019, following a spiritual leading to live in harmony with Creation by harnessing the energy of the sun to power our meetinghouse, Durham Friends Meeting (DFM), a member of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting Conservative, began generating...
