Fracking 101 Glossary

Dec 9, 2020 | Fracking

Helpful Terms to Better Understand Fracking   Clean Water Act of 1972 –  national legislation which established the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters. ...

The Myth of a Century of Natural Gas in the U.S.

Dec 9, 2020 | Fracking

  In arguing against fracking, it is important to debunk the myth that the U.S. has enough natural gas reserves to fulfill our need for the next 100 years.  It is equally necessary to discuss the plan by gas companies to make the export of natural gas the next...

Quaker PopOffsets

Dec 3, 2020 | Population

Are you concerned about your “carbon footprint”? QEW’s Population Working Group can help. QEW’s Population Working Group offers an innovative program to help confront climate change and other environmental problems. It is based on a similar program...

What I’m Learning From the Pandemic

Dec 2, 2020 | Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Hopeful, Number 2, Timely, Volume 33

By Shelley Tanenbaum. EVERY YEAR WE Friends ask ourselves, “How has truth fared for Thee?” It is a way of refreshing ourselves, of self-evaluating personally and in our Meetings. It gives us an opportunity to change course and to respond to emerging leadings. What if...

United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent

Dec 2, 2020 | African Diaspora, United Nations

  United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent The United Nations (UN) commemorates international decades to focus world attention on a specific topic, and then mobilize resources to respond.  In December 2013, the U.N. General Assembly...

Truth Is Something That Happens

Nov 24, 2020 | Quaker Testimonies, Spirituality

by Louis Cox. DO YOU SWEAR that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you, God?… Early Quakers were known for their refusal to take such oaths in a court of law (often at the risk of fines and...

Why a Specifically Quaker Testimony on the Environment?

Nov 24, 2020 | Quaker Testimonies

By William Beale. SINCE THERE ARE MANY excellent organizations actively working to improve our relation to the planet, is there any need or place for a specifically Quaker organization to address the same concerns? The fundamental environmental questions we face are...

A Shared Quaker Statement: Facing the Challenge of Climate Change

Nov 17, 2020 | Meetings Taking Action, QEW Position Statements

 [Last update: June 2017]   “It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world, that they were better studied and knowing in the Creation of it. For how could [they] find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the great Creator...

Q&A with Douglas Gwyn

Nov 4, 2020 | Books We Love, Sustainability

Doug Gwyn, the author of A Sustainable Life: Quaker Faith and Practice in the Renewal of Creation, generously agreed to be interviewed for this issue of BeFriending Creation. Thanks, Doug! 1. You explain how your thought and interests developed through several books,...

Review: Coming Back to Life: The Updated Workbook to the Work that Reconnects

Nov 4, 2020 | Books We Love, Climate Change, Spirituality

by Quaker Earthcare Witness. Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown is expanded and updated from their book of the same name published in 1998 (New Society Publishers, 2014, Gabriola Island, BC). The Deep Ecology work of Joanna Macy, also called the...