Feb 14, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Individuals Taking Action, Jan Feb March, Number 1, Renewable Energy, Volume 35, Youth & Young Friends
by Carol Bradley. One need only look down from a plane, or check out the satellite view of any Crown land forest in Nova Scotia to see just how much clearcutting is going on. Total massacre. Logging roads growing like a cancer across the province. – The Stop Spraying...
Feb 14, 2022 | 2022, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Individuals Taking Action, Jan Feb March, Meetings Taking Action, Number 1, Volume 35
by Frank Granshaw and Annette Carter. Our recent trip to Glasgow, Scotland for the UN climate conference for 2021 (COP26) involved a lot of travel by train. We had constant reminders to “Mind the gap when alighting the carriage.” This phrase felt very much in line...
Feb 14, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Divestment, Environmental Justice, Individuals Taking Action, Jan Feb March, Number 1, Sustainability, Volume 35
by Jonathan Ogle. The world’s biggest asset managers have a big problem. Companies such as BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street manage trillions of dollars of investment on behalf of millions of investors. Even while they sign commitments to make their own office...
Dec 21, 2021 | Individuals Taking Action, Meetings Taking Action, Spirituality, Timely
I love this part of the winter holidays—when our sense of wonder and light corresponds to the natural pivot point of the solstice. Since June in the northern hemisphere, days have been getting shorter and shorter, with the shortest day today, on December 21. From this...
Dec 15, 2021 | Activism, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Individuals Taking Action, Meetings Taking Action, Timely
Hello Friends, Our Quaker Earthcare Witness network is filled with gifts. Friends offer their time, financial resources, prayers, experience, expertise, and connections to help our growing community care for the Earth and each other. Here are a few ways we’re hoping...
Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, Action-Oriented, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Indigenous Peoples, Individuals Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
How do you ask a community to be the last to sacrifice their land to support the dying fossil fuel industry? by Shelley Tanenbaum. In September I had the privilege of spending about a week on the frontline at Red Lake Treaty Camp, a spiritual and ceremonial camp in...
