May 7, 2018 | BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Number 2, Practical, Uncategorized, Volume 31
By Ruth Darlington. WHAT DO YOU DO when you are led to reach out about climate change, but you don’t know who else in your community cares about it? Last September, Medford Meeting in New Jersey co-hosted an all-day climate change film festival with the Pinelands...
May 7, 2018 | Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Individuals Taking Action, Number 2, Uncategorized, Volume 31
By Bob Schultz. THE U.S. CONGRESS MAY BE one of the most foot-dragging institutions on the planet with respect to addressing climate disruption, yet we can find some hope in the emergence of the House Climate Solutions Caucus, a bipartisan group of U.S....
May 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Tom Small THOUGH, AS A SPECIES, we may have journeyed through immense reaches of time and space, we remain close to our origins, to Eden, and to wilderness. They are within us and right beneath our feet. Scripture tells us God formed us “of dust from the ground”...
May 7, 2018 | BeFriending Creation, Environmental Justice, Individuals Taking Action, Meetings Taking Action, Number 2, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Volume 31
By Marian Dalke. SUNDAY MORNING’s soft light casts through deep wooden windows. The light shifts and picks up the soft cotton of milkweed seeds, sailing over the heads of those gathered for Quaker Meeting for Worship at Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. Grace...
Feb 7, 2018 | BeFriending Creation, Number 1, Uncategorized, Volume 31, Water
By Christopher Haines. WHEN JIMMY CARTER ASKED scientist Charles Keeling for advice in 1978 on what the government should do about climate change, Keeling said that the problem was far too complicated for people to understand, so focus on greenhouse emissions. Since...
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...
Feb 7, 2018 | Advocacy, BeFriending Creation, Meetings Taking Action, Number 1, Uncategorized, Volume 31
By Rapid City Friends and Rapid City chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby Rapid City Friends, an unaffiliated worship group in Rapid City, South Dakota, in conjunction with the local chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, has taken action as a community: As Quakers, we...
Feb 7, 2018 | BeFriending Creation, New & Exploring, Number 1, Practical, Quaker-Specific, Uncategorized, Volume 31
DO YOU KNOW who is your Yearly Meeting representative to Quaker Earthcare Witness? DO YOU KNOW who is your Yearly Meeting representative to Quaker Earthcare Witness? Our 31 Yearly Meeting Representatives serve as liaisons between QEW and their Yearly Meetings, sharing...
Feb 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Pamela Haines I like to shop at times finding treasures at a thrift store mingling with neighbors at a farmers’ market fingering crafts from worlds away But mostly I don’t. In my mouth it has the taste of failure failure of imagination that I cannot come up with...
Feb 7, 2018 | BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, Number 1, Uncategorized, Volume 31
Review Catherine de Neergaard In DRAWDOWN: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, Paul Hawken and his team of scientists have identified the 100 most effective actions to reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. They define...
