Aug 11, 2013 | Resources
Mary Gilbert, QEW Representative to the UN I have never seen the like, not at the UN! The countries are taking seriously the threats human activity has brought to Earth’s ability to host us and other species. They get it! Best of all, they get that it is really one...
Aug 11, 2013 | Resources
Shelley Tanenbaum, Clerk In keeping with Friends General Conference’s theme of “Our Growing Edge,” we explored the query, What is your Monthly or Yearly Meeting’s growing edge on environmental concerns? The query and responses were one of the 14 sessions we hosted in...
Aug 11, 2013 | Resources
Anne Mitchell, General Secretary QEW held its Steering Committee meeting, June 27 – 30 at Boulder, Colorado. We were warmly welcomed and hosted by Boulder Monthly Meeting. Boulder Friends provided housing, transport, and their beautiful Meeting House in a...
Jul 11, 2013 | Resources
Mary Gilbert A book review by Mary Gilbert Crisis of Global Sustainability, by Tapio Kanninen. #74 in the Routledge Global Institutions Series, Routledge, New York, NY, 10017, 2013. Maybe you’re like me; you’ve heard of the book Limits to Growth and its warning that...
Jun 11, 2013 | Resources
Os Cresson One day in 1652 George Fox was concerned to demonstrate his unity with all creation. As he later described it in his journal, “[T]here came John Story to me, and lighted his pipe of tobacco, and, said he, ‘Will you take a pipe of tobacco,’ saying, ‘Come,...
Jun 11, 2013 | Resources
David Millar For some years it has been clear that environmental doom-saying, because it is a poor motivator, is a dead end. However true the predictions of global overheating, climate chaos, resource wars, pollution, and disease (with consequent mass death or...
