Jul 30, 2024 | Uncategorized, Volume 37
Last month, Hawaiʻi officials announced a groundbreaking legal settlement to fully decarbonize Hawaiʻi’s transportation system by 2045. Thirteen youths from across Hawaiʻi brought the case in June 2022, arguing that their state’s transportation policies and practices...
Jul 30, 2024 | Uncategorized, Volume 37
This past spring, Quaker Earthcare Witness hosted a vibrant and deeply engaging book group focused on Jennie Ratcliffe’s transformative book, Nothing Lowly in the Universe. From February through May 2024, participants gathered every other Monday to delve into the...
Jul 30, 2024 | Uncategorized, Volume 37
By Nora Lisette Cooke In June 2022, I was in a house in Calvisson, France, house sitting for local Friends who lived just down the road from the Maison Quaker, where my parents were the amis-résidents (Friends in Residence). I had been on the Zoom call for close to...
Jul 30, 2024 | Uncategorized, Volume 37
“Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the person but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it— at which point they can become human, too.” – Bayard Rustin Quaker Call to Action We see that truth, democracy,...
Jul 30, 2024 | Uncategorized, Volume 37
by Molly McGinty The ongoing climate crisis and escalating threat of nuclear war pose the most acute threats to human and planetary survival. These twin existential threats to life are closely linked and mutually reinforcing, each requiring urgent action. In 2023, the...
Mar 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
Support our Mini-Grant Program Quaker Earthcare Witness offers grants each year to diverse Friends meetings, groups, churches, and organizations to support their community’s vision of caring for the Earth and each other through our Mini-Grants Program. Please help us...
Dec 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
by Shelley Tanenbaum In 2015, the Pope’s message to the world, Laudato Si, amazed many of us, myself included, with his blunt comments about people, economics, and climate change. (QuakerEarthcare.org/Laudato-Si) He called for a radical restructuring of how we relate...
Dec 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Referring to the Romans’ view of early Christians, Tertullian wrote, “It is mainly the deeds of a love so noble that lead many to put a brand upon us. See how they love one another, they say.” This idea that our QEW community is rooted in addressing climate change...
Dec 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
by Peter Husby To many people, the concept of “natural” is equivalent to a lack of human presence or measurable human influence. For example, the late ecologist E.O. Wilson believed that the only way to save our planet was to remove humans from half of the earth’s...
Dec 17, 2023 | BeFriending Creation, BeFriending Creation 3604
Join a webinar sponsored by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s Environmental Justice Collaborative on Community Choice Aggregation on January 18th, 7pm Eastern. Presenters from the CCA for PA team will provide an overview of CCA, introduce participants to local leaders...
