Feb 7, 2018 | Activism, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Number 1, Uncategorized, Volume 31, Youth & Young Friends
By Shelley Tanenbaum. YOUNG PEOPLE, who are facing a disturbing future due to increasing climate catastrophes, can often feel like their voices are not heard. Lacking power, influence, and even the right to vote, some youth have turned to the courts. In 2015, 21 youth...
Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Number 5, Uncategorized, Volume 30, Youth & Young Friends
By Paula Kline. For more than a decade, my husband and I have hosted high school students for an annual Environmental Leadership Workcamp in the cloud forest of Veracruz, Mexico. A project of Westtown School’s Quaker Leadership Program, students return home...
Nov 7, 2017 | BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Mini-Grants, Number 5, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Volume 30, Youth & Young Friends
By Liz Hofmeister. ON SEPTEMBER 30TH, former campers, counselors, and others long associated with Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Catoctin Quaker Camp marked the 60th anniversary of the residential summer camp located some 50 miles west of Baltimore, MD. A highlight of the...
Jul 7, 2017 | 2017, Action-Oriented, Activism, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Practical, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Volume 30, Youth & Young Friends
By Jaime DeMarco. I RECENTLY HELPED CO-FOUND the Maryland Clean Energy Jobs Initiative, a new non-profit working to pass legislation in Maryland that will do three things. It will expand renewable electricity in Maryland to 50% by 2030, invest in renewable energy...
Oct 8, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Individuals Taking Action, Number 5, Quaker-Specific, Spirituality, Theology, Uncategorized, Volume 29, Youth & Young Friends
By Sara Wolcott. What is it that Quakerism contributes to my ecological journey? I am vexed by this question. Five years ago, when my primary sense of religious belonging was nestled deep within the Religious Society of Friends, it would have been easy for me to...
Aug 8, 2016 | BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, Individuals Taking Action, Number 4, Uncategorized, Volume 29, Youth & Young Friends
By Sara Wolcott. Myself and the other 60 young (aged 20-35) faith leaders from across Canada and the United States who were partaking in GreenFaith’s 2016 North American Convergence eagerly peered out of our bus windows as it turned onto the road leading to Isle de...
