Oct 11, 2013 | Resources
By Shelley Tanenbaum, Clerk Most of us reading this know that climate change is the issue of our times. Knowing that so many of us are working on this together helps lighten this heavy burden. Climate change and what we can do about it is the theme for QEW’s fall...
Oct 11, 2013 | Resources
By eric maya joy dear friends, the following quote jumped out from martin luther king’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” it drew out of me what i have come to feel are foundational aspects of right relationship with earth. “… In any nonviolent...
Oct 11, 2013 | Resources
By Mt. Toby Friends Climate Witness Committee Over the past three years a group at Mt. Toby Friends Meeting in Leverett, Massachusetts has studied the issue of climate change. In that time, the meeting made a number of structural improvements to reduce carbon use in...
Aug 11, 2013 | Resources
Tom Small, Publications Clerk Quakers hold one another in the light. Summer Light holds us, enveloping and embracing us through long, quiet days. The very air is bright as the yellow flowers of July and August gather sunlight and offer, in return, an earthly...
Aug 11, 2013 | Resources
Dear QEW Friends, Quaker Earthcare Witness encourages all Friends, monthly and yearly meetings to thank President Obama for his planned action on climate change. We see the need for a groundswell of support to counter expected strong opposition. These proposals are...
Aug 11, 2013 | Resources
Statement to the Post 2015 Consultations Submitted by Quaker Earthcare Witness, July 10 2013 For more information about QEW please contact Anne Mitchell, General Secretary. As Quakers, part of our tradition is to remain open to all sources of wisdom and recognize that...
