Feb 14, 2022 | 2022, Activism, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Divestment, Environmental Justice, Jan Feb March, Number 1, Timely, Volume 35
by Eileen Flanagan. As soon as Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) announced that we had joined the international campaign to pressure Vanguard to become a climate leader, we started hearing from Quakers and others who were Vanguard customers that they were eager to move...
Feb 14, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Divestment, Environmental Justice, Individuals Taking Action, Jan Feb March, Number 1, Sustainability, Volume 35
by Jonathan Ogle. The world’s biggest asset managers have a big problem. Companies such as BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street manage trillions of dollars of investment on behalf of millions of investors. Even while they sign commitments to make their own office...
Feb 14, 2022 | 2022, Activism, Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Jan Feb March, Number 1, Volume 35
by Lindsey Fielder Cook. Recognition of a human right to a healthy environment can have, in the words of the UN Special Rapporteur, “life-changing potential.” The 2010 UN recognition of water and sanitation as a human right led to significantly improved access to...
Feb 14, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Hopeful, Jan Feb March, Number 1, Volume 35, Youth & Young Friends
by Pamela Haines. A regular high point in my week is being in touch with a handful of young climate activists. Through a young man who stayed in our spare room while doing student fossil fuel divestment work and then went on to be one of the founders of the Sunrise...
Feb 14, 2022 | 2022, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, Jan Feb March, New & Exploring, Number 1, Spirituality, Volume 35
by Mary Conrow Coelho. There are remarkable discoveries now offered to Quaker Earthcare Witness that can greatly strengthen its work and witness. One evening in the early 1990s, a small group gathered to listen to a talk in a video series describing the changes in...
Jan 24, 2022 | Activism, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Racial Justice, Spirituality, Sustainability, Youth & Young Friends
Join Hayley Hathaway, of Quaker Earthcare Witness, for Exploring Ecospirituality: Old & New Ways to Imagine & Transform, a workshop for young adults (ages 18-40). The workshop will be held online, Thursday, February 17, 7:30 – 9 pm Eastern Time. “The world is...
Jan 4, 2022 | Art & Poetry, Spirituality, Sustainability
Dear Friends, As our beloved outgoing clerk, Mary Jo Klingel, writes: “If the past two years of virtual meetings, workshops, and worship sharings have taught QEW Friends anything, it is how very precious our Earthcare community is.” She continues: Those who work...
Dec 21, 2021 | Individuals Taking Action, Meetings Taking Action, Spirituality, Timely
I love this part of the winter holidays—when our sense of wonder and light corresponds to the natural pivot point of the solstice. Since June in the northern hemisphere, days have been getting shorter and shorter, with the shortest day today, on December 21. From this...
Dec 15, 2021 | Activism, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Individuals Taking Action, Meetings Taking Action, Timely
Hello Friends, Our Quaker Earthcare Witness network is filled with gifts. Friends offer their time, financial resources, prayers, experience, expertise, and connections to help our growing community care for the Earth and each other. Here are a few ways we’re hoping...
Dec 3, 2021 | Activism, Timely
There is Light all around us. It shows us another world is possible. Let’s open our eyes to see it. When we follow the teachings of nature, we can restore habitat—this happened in Yellowstone National Park when wolves were reintroduced to the ecosystem to restore the...
