Sep 10, 2021 | 2021, BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, Climate Change, July-August-September, Number 3, Timely, Volume 34
by Shelley Tanenbaum. If the catchword for 2020 was “unprecedented,” then 2021 follows as “unequivocal.” That is how the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports scientific evidence that human activities are the cause of climate change, that the...
Sep 10, 2021 | 2021, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, Individuals Taking Action, July-August-September, Number 3, Renewable Energy, Volume 34
by Ralph Jacobson. The people of Red Lake Nation, in northwestern Minnesota, had been talking for over a decade about ending their dependence on electricity generated from coal. This is a story about their journey toward renewable energy. Mercury falls into the water...
Sep 10, 2021 | 2021, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Individuals Taking Action, July-August-September, Meetings Taking Action, Number 3, Volume 34
At Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s annual sessions this July, Friends came under the weight of the climate emergency as a yearly meeting priority and accepted and approved the Climate Sprint Report, “Moving Together in the Face of Climate Change,” excerpted below.
To...
Sep 10, 2021 | 2021, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, July-August-September, Number 3
by George Lakey. Judging from news accounts of the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, we can expect a fresh dose of anxiety about the future to show up among Friends, even while some of us are reeling from the effects of Covid-19. The...
Dec 2, 2020 | Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Hopeful, Number 2, Timely, Volume 33
By Shelley Tanenbaum. EVERY YEAR WE Friends ask ourselves, “How has truth fared for Thee?” It is a way of refreshing ourselves, of self-evaluating personally and in our Meetings. It gives us an opportunity to change course and to respond to emerging leadings. What if...
Nov 4, 2020 | Books We Love, Climate Change, Spirituality
by Quaker Earthcare Witness. Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown is expanded and updated from their book of the same name published in 1998 (New Society Publishers, 2014, Gabriola Island, BC). The Deep Ecology work of Joanna Macy, also called the...
