Considering the Consequences of Unchecked Population Growth

Considering the Consequences of Unchecked Population Growth By Roger Plenty I am a Quaker living in Stroud, UK, and I have been a Friend for about 50 years. My interest in population started at a precise point in 1958. During an economics course, the lecturer told us...

Letters to Share, Nov-Dec 2014

Dear Editor, I appreciated the recent article about indigenous peoples. This is an area where environmental justice and social justice meet, as these are the cultures who have a better sense of how to live in harmony with the land. I want to draw attention to a local...

Eco-Witness Roots and Shoots, Seeds and Trees

Shelley Tanenbaum Greetings, Friends! We hope as 2014 draws to a close you are feeling a sense of gratitude and hopefulness about the changes we’re seeing—and making—in the world around us. Quaker Earthcare Witness coordinates a network of Quakers working on...

You Can’t Have Your Kay(a)k and (H)eat it, Too!

Shelley Tanenbaum, General Secretary Alaska Friends have a deep connection to their land, as I learned on a recent visit when I facilitated a daylong workshop on earthcare, climate change, and witness in the world. The title of this article was the theme for their...

A Report from UNFCCC Negotiations

A Report from UNFCCC Negotiations Lindsey Fielder Cook. QUNO Representative On June 4-15, 2014, international climate change negotiations were held in Bonn, Germany under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These...