Mar 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Number 2, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By J.T. Dorr-Bremme. IN JULY 2009, I had things pretty well figured out. I had, after six years of on-and-off study, achieved a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing. I had been hired into a new-graduate program, an increasingly rare opportunity in the...
Mar 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Hopeful, New & Exploring, Number 2, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Shelley Tanenbaum. TWO OF MY RECENT READS have made a strong impression on me as I ponder how I as an individual and how Quaker Earthcare Witness as an organization can best use our resources in these times. Van Jones succinctly sums up the two opposing world views...
Mar 7, 2017 | Activism, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Individuals Taking Action, Number 2, Practical, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Bob McGahey. FROM MY PERSPECTIVE as a climate journalist and activist, the ascension of an outright climate denialist as the President, with cabinet choices of a half-dozen more, completes the campaign of disinformation mounted by the fossil fuel industry, aided...
Jan 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Number 1, Renewable Energy, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Shelley Tanenbaum. AMIDST THE 2016 END-OF-YEAR bad news all around, you might have missed this: utility-scale solar is now the least expensive way to install new sources of electricity. Onshore wind is a close second. Currently, solar and wind are at just about the...
Jan 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Number 1, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Brad Stocker, Miami Friends Meeting. FOUR YEARS AGO, the Southeastern Yearly Meeting (SEYM) Earthcare Committee (EcC) brought forth a Minute on Climate Change that was approved the 14th day of the fourth month, 2014, which reads in part: “We, the Friends of...
Jan 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, Number 1, Uncategorized, Volume 30
By Tom Small. PETER WOHLLEBEN TELLS THE STORY of a professional forester’s awakening from calculations of board feet to realization of a forest as an intelligent, feeling community. Sharing information and resources through what Wohlleben calls the “wood wide web,”...
