Nov 25, 2025 | Climate Change, Individuals Taking Action, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Amanda Franklin In 2019, I had a spiritual crisis stemming from an overpowering visceral realization of climate change. I changed our family’s diet, eliminating nearly all animal products (except eggs: thank God for not requiring this baker to go that far.) In summer...
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 14, 2025 | Activism, Advocacy, Climate Change, Economics, Environmental Justice, Individuals Taking Action, Uncategorized
Keith Runyan When Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency, it was clear the political landscape for climate action had shifted. As the new General Secretary of Quaker Earthcare Witness, I felt a responsibility to help mobilize the Quaker community to protect what...
Nov 14, 2025 | Individuals Taking Action, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Richard Grossman At the Spring Gathering, speaker Daniel Wahl mentioned “cohousing”. That might be a new word for some Friends, so I thought I would write a bit about my wife’s and my experience after living in a cohousing community for a quarter century....
Feb 27, 2023 | 2023, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Individuals Taking Action, Number 1, Volume 36
by Ruth Darlington. When Priscilla Adams and Maria Esche learned about the plans of New Fortress Energy to export Pennsylvania fracked gas from a terminal in Gibbstown, NJ, they took notice, and then they took action. It all started when organizers at Food & Water...
Nov 28, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, Climate Change, Individuals Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Soil, Volume 35
by Tom Small. Breath is what unites us. It unites us with the “other.” With all of creation. Breath is the rhythm, the flow of life itself. Call it Ch’i. Or ruah. Or spiritus. Or rta. The universal breath, life force, or rhythmic pattern of all being. When we...
