Nov 21, 2025 | Climate Change, Divestment, Individuals Taking Action, Mapping, Uncategorized
Unintentional Earthcare: Finding Quaker Activism in the Simple Life Jonny Costello For the past two months, I’ve been doing outreach for the Quaker Earth Action Map. I’ve sent many emails, made many phone calls, left many voicemails, and had the pleasure of speaking...
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 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...
Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, Action-Oriented, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Divestment, Number 1, Renewable Energy, Volume 36
by Kathy Barnhart. At the beginning of each Meeting for Business at Strawberry Creek Meeting in Berkeley, California, a committee responds to one of the Advices and Queries in our Pacific Yearly Meeting’s Faith and Practice. Last month our Communications Committee...
Nov 28, 2022 | 2022, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Divestment, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 35
Quakers Join Across Continents to Call on Vanguard to Stop Funding Dirty Fossil Fuel Projects On Friday, October 7, 150 Quakers gathered in-person and virtually to “worship in action” at strategic locations to call on Vanguard, one of the world’s largest investment...
Aug 31, 2022 | Activism, Divestment, Renewable Energy
“As people of diverse faiths and spiritualities, we call on the world’s asset managers to stop financing the profoundly immoral destruction of our climate.” -the rev. abby mohaupt, GreenFaith People of faith, environmental groups, and frontline communities and...
