Quaker Earthcare Witness

Facing Our Biodiversity-Climate Crisis: A Healing Practice of Communion with Life
2025-07-19 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Join Bill Cahalan, an ecopsychologist and dedicated advocate for the natural world, for a special session designed to cultivate a deeper connection with all life. Bill will begin by sharing about the global biodiversity-climate crisis as a major moral crisis of our time. He will then introduce a contemplative practice that can open us to a humble, at times ecstatic sense of kinship with local nature, which can extend to all life and the Cosmos.
Participants will be guided outdoors into slow walking and empathic gazing. We will return for a sharing circle, followed by discussion. This practice can be woven into nurturing our own yards and neighborhood landscapes as wild communities, inspiring us for further action in service to Life.
Bill Cahalan is a member of Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati. He has led retreats for opening to the natural world since 1983, and works as an ecopsychologist. QEW (then FCUN) published his booklet Awakening to Earth in 2001. He enjoys wandering in nature, working regeneratively with his home and meeting woods, and is part of the Rights of Nature movement.
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June Worship Sharing
2025-06-24 23:00
Quaker Earthcare Witness hosts monthly online worship-sharing groups.
This month, we will meet from 7-8 pm Eastern time/4-5 pm Pacific time on Tuesday, May 27th.
Our worship sharing seeks to explore our Earthcare callings, nourish our sense of community, and explore queries to draw us into a shared sacred space. Together we are creating more opportunities for Friends who care deeply about the Earth and each other to be in spiritual community with one another. We hope you can join us.
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QEW Action Hour: Protect our Earth | Save the IRA
2025-06-18 17:00 - 18:00
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the largest climate bill in history, is on the brink. With new budget reconciliation negotiations underway, House Republicans are divided on repealing key clean energy tax credits, and moderate Democrats are being courted to make cuts. Flipping just a few key votes could save nearly a million lives, preventing hundreds of Katrina-scale disasters worldwide, and keep gigatons of carbon out of the atmosphere.
Join QEW for an urgent, action-driven hour where we’ll:

Break down what’s happening – Which IRA provisions are under threat, which are likely to survive, and what needs defending most.
Call your Representative – Talk climate/clean-energy sense to your congressional representative with our strategic call scripts designed to reach people at every corner of the political spectrum
Target Critical Districts – Help QEW activate Friends/Allies in critical swing districts to target the members of Congress whose votes could make or break the bill.
Get Empowered! – Get scripts, toolkits, and direct support to call Congress, mobilize local awareness, and turn pressure into power.

The stakes are massive, and a small, coordinated effort could protect the IRA and the future of clean energy in the U.S.
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