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,...
Feb 6, 2019 | 2019, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Practical, Volume 32
By Ruth Darlington. WHEN PAUL HAWKEN’S book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming came out in 2017, many hailed it as the “new Green Bible.” I rushed to get a copy. When I held it in my hands, it felt like proof that there...
Feb 6, 2019 | 2019, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Volume 32, Youth & Young Friends
By Dan Kriesberg. AN EXCELLENT MEASURE of how much children are learning is to count the number of times the teacher says “Pay attention.” The fewer “pay attentions” the more learning. In my own experience of 30 years as a science teacher, a 4th-grade teacher, and...
Feb 6, 2019 | 2019, Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Peace, Quaker-Specific, Spiritual, Spirituality, Volume 32
By Jay O’Hara. ON CHRISTMAS EVE I went out with my in-laws to church service in upstate New York. The big crowd gathered in the chapel on the campus of Cornell University, and the minister hit all the right notes for this presumably liberal crowd: alluding to the...
Feb 6, 2019 | 2019, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, United Nations, Volume 32
By Frank Granshaw and Annette Carter. IN DECEMBER 2018 the 24th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (COP24) met in Katowice, Poland. Their task was to hammer out the rulebook by which the world could...
Feb 1, 2019 | 2019, Action-Oriented, Activism, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Quaker-Specific, Volume 32, Youth & Young Friends
By Kallan Benson. AS A 15-YEAR OLD QUAKER, I am accustomed to silence. I understand it is not empty; it can hold profound power. I have felt my spirit resonate in the silence of my Quaker community, but silence has recently taken me outside the meetinghouse to the...
