Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, Action-Oriented, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
by Joseph Cotham. The United States and Canada have committed to the conservation of 30% of the land and waters of the United States by 2030. The U.S.’ 30×30 initiative has evolved into the America the Beautiful campaign, a national call to action that is...
Nov 19, 2021 | 2021, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, Individuals Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 34
by Lyn Adamson. I’m the co-chair of Canada’s ClimateFast, a volunteer-based non-profit dedicated to building strong, informed public pressure to take urgent, substantial and just action on climate change. Our group fasted on the first full day of COP26, November 1,...
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.
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Aug 27, 2021 | Activism, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Peoples, Individuals Taking Action
Quakers are coming together to support the growing Indigenous-led movement in northern Minnesota to resist the construction of the Line 3 pipeline. Several Friends participated in non-violent civil disobedience over this past Minnesota winter, several more took part...
Jun 10, 2021 | 2021, April-May-June, BeFriending Creation, Hopeful, Individuals Taking Action, Meetings Taking Action, Number 2, Timely, Volume 34
By Gayle Matson. Recently a Friend in my Quaker meeting spoke movingly of her sadness upon visiting a favorite place that had been ravaged by fire last year. Many of us can relate to that shock and dismay of discovering that a landscape or ecosystem we dearly love has...
