Nov 2, 2023 | 2023, April-May-June, Divestment, Number 2, Volume 36
Created by Friend Jennie Ratcliffe and members of the Earthcare Witness Committee of Durham (NC) Friends Meeting. This guide provides resources on the what and why of divestment, which banks or funds to divest from, how to go about divesting, and how to reinvest in a...
May 8, 2023 | 2023, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Number 1, Spirituality, Volume 36
by Allen McGrew. Six months before I joined Quaker Earthcare Witness Steering Committee, I was stricken by a nasty infection that got into my blood and precipitated a near-fatal cascade of platelet death, septic shock, that plunged my blood pressure to 35/50,...
May 8, 2023 | 2023, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Number 2, Peace, Volume 36
by Jennie M. Ratcliffe. There are multiple interconnections between conscientious objection to militarism and what we can call the conscientious protection of all life on Earth. Conscientious objection, both to war-making and to militarism that seeks to maintain and...
May 8, 2023 | 2023, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Number 2, Volume 36
by ChatGPT. We asked ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot, to “give us a 600 word article that answers this question: will humans survive the climate crisis?” This is what it wrote: The climate crisis, also known as global warming, is one of the most pressing...
May 3, 2023 | April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Uncategorized, Volume 36
by Liz Robinson. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), people in the US finally have the tools necessary to rapidly decarbonize our lives and help accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy. The law provides $369 billion dollars for climate...
May 3, 2023 | 2023, Activism, Advocacy, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Divestment, Volume 36
by Eileen Flanagan. In response to right-wing pressure, Vanguard, one of the world’s biggest investors in fossil fuels-, announced in December 2022 that it was backing away from one its few public climate commitments, the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative. This was...
