Feb 7, 2018 | Activism, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Number 1, Uncategorized, Volume 31
By Lyn Adamson TORONTO MONTHLY MEETING’S Peace and Social Action Committee has supported the work of ClimateFast, a Canadian climate action group, since its inception in 2012. For the first three years, ClimateFast focused on federal climate action with periods of...
Feb 7, 2018 | BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Meetings Taking Action, Number 1, Uncategorized, Volume 31
By Beverly G. Ward MANY COMMUNITIES in South Florida experience “sunny day” flooding during periods of very high or “king” tides. During a new or full moon, when the sun and the moon are aligned with Earth in their orbits, the gravitational pull on the oceans is at...
Nov 7, 2017 | Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, Hopeful, Meetings Taking Action, Number 5, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Regula and Michael Russelle. AN ALL-NIGHT, OUTDOOR EVENT. One thousand passersby publicly claim their practices and promises to reduce climate change. Each attaches a paper leaf with a personal, hand-written testimony like “bicycle everywhere,” “no food waste,”...
Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Hopeful, Individuals Taking Action, Number 5, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Ann Marie Klaus. I have to admit, I do not harbor a wish to save Earth or reverse the process she is undergoing. Nor do I worry for her. Earth, in my mind, is a powerful, exquisite being, undergoing the same process of expansion that every bit of the universe...
Nov 7, 2017 | Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Number 5, Practical, Quaker-Specific, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Eric Fuselier. Friends, we are happy to announce that we recently formed a Quaker Earthcare Committee within the monthly meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Members of the committee have a lot of passion and knowledge about the environment and we’re really excited...
Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Number 5, Uncategorized, Volume 30, Youth & Young Friends
By Paula Kline. For more than a decade, my husband and I have hosted high school students for an annual Environmental Leadership Workcamp in the cloud forest of Veracruz, Mexico. A project of Westtown School’s Quaker Leadership Program, students return home...
