Month: April 2013
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- Youth & Young Friends
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Blossoming and Building at Finca La Bella
By Os Cresson Recently several members of QEW visited Finca La Bella in the San Luis Valley in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Bill and Alice Howenstine were accompanied by their daughter, son-in-law, and two high school-aged granddaughters, and Os Cresson was with his great-nephew, also of high school age.
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Considering Earth
By Louis Cox What do we call our planet? The earth? Or just Earth? It has long been common usage to say the earth (and to spell it lowercase) when talking about this planet in a scientific context. This goes along with the practice of referring to the sun and the moon as objects…
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What are the UN’s Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals?
By Mary Gilbert, QEW Representative to the UN The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) came out of the UN Millennium Summit in 2000. There are eight goals (see sidebar, right), intended to improve social and economic conditions in the poorest countries in the world by 2015. A conference held in 2010 assessed…
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What are the UN’s Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals?
What are the UN’s Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals? By Mary Gilbert, QEW Representative to the UN The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) came out of the UN Millennium Summit in 2000. There are eight goals (see sidebar, right), intended to improve social and economic conditions in the poorest countries in the…
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Life and Death in the Galápagos
By Richard Grossman We had just seen a Galápagos hawk soaring overhead when we heard an incongruous sound: here were cats mewing beside the path. I caught a glimpse of a tabby kitten with the bluest eyes. “I like cats,” our guide said, “but I’ll have…
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Galápagos: Lessons from Finches, Marine Iguanas, and Islands
By Tom Small Now, as we careen into the Anthropocene era, the human species has seemingly become the prime mover of ever-accelerating change; but we are nonetheless subject to it. Subject to inexorable processes of evolution. “In this changing world everything is subject to change,” says the Isha Upanishad.
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Notes of Gratitude
Notes of Gratitude On Synthetic Biology See You in Colorado This Summer Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard Catching Up with Barbara Williamson Inviting Your Support Quaker Institute for the Future Summer Seminar…
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On Synthetic Biology
By Anne Mitchell, General Secretary Notes of Gratitude On Synthetic Biology See You in Colorado This Summer Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard Catching Up with Barbara Williamson Inviting Your Support Quaker Institute for…
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See You in Colorado This Summer
Shelley Tanenbaum Notes of Gratitude On Synthetic Biology See You in Colorado This Summer Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard Catching Up with Barbara Williamson Inviting Your Support Quaker Institute for the Future Summer…
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Catching Up with Barbara Williamson
Notes of Gratitude On Synthetic Biology See You in Colorado This Summer Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard Catching Up with Barbara Williamson Inviting Your Support Quaker Institute for the Future Summer Seminar…
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Inviting Your Support
Anne Mitchell, QEW General Secretary Notes of Gratitude On Synthetic Biology See You in Colorado This Summer Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard Catching Up with Barbara Williamson Inviting Your Support Quaker Institute for…
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Quaker Institute for the Future Summer Seminar
Notes of Gratitude On Synthetic Biology See You in Colorado This Summer Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard Catching Up with Barbara Williamson Inviting Your Support Quaker Institute for the Future Summer Seminar…
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Making Space for Young Adult Leadership
By Emily Higgs Notes of Gratitude On Synthetic Biology See You in Colorado This Summer Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard Catching Up with Barbara Williamson Inviting Your Support Quaker Institute for the Future Summer…
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Letters from Our Readers
Notes of Gratitude On Synthetic Biology See You in Colorado This Summer Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard Catching Up with Barbara Williamson Inviting Your Support Quaker Institute for the Future Summer Seminar…
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