Month: April 2014
- All
- Activism
- Advocacy
- African Diaspora
- Art & Poetry
- BeFriending Creation
- Biology
- Books We Love
- Climate Change
- Divestment
- Economics
- Environmental Justice
- Fracking
- Friendly Landscapes
- Indigenous Peoples
- Individuals Taking Action
- Meetings Taking Action
- Mini-Grants
- Minutes on Earthcare
- New & Exploring
- Pamphlets for Sharing
- Peace
- Permaculture
- Population
- QEW Position Statements
- Quaker Testimonies
- Racial Justice
- Renewable Energy
- Resources
- Skeptics
- Soil
- Spirituality
- Sustainability
- Theme
- Theology
- Timeless
- Timely
- United Nations
- Water
- Youth & Young Friends
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Peaceful, Joyful, Random Thoughts During a Blizzard
By Jim Kessler 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…
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April Connections and May Mini-Grants
By Shelley Tanenbaum, General Secretary As a network of Friends who are carrying a concern for Earthcare, we meet twice a year to set policy, reconnect with each other, share stories of our work, and help each other strengthen our spiritual core. We do this through Meeting for…
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A View of the UN Open Working Group
By Patricia Chernoff, QEW Representative to the UN At the beginning of each day’s meetings of Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, several keynote speakers make an effort to educate the diplomats from various countries on the theme of the day. On the day I am reporting,…
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Update on the Sustainable Development Goals
By Mary Gilbert, QEW Representative to the UN On February 5, 2014, the UN Open Working Group (OWG), assembled to form the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), finished taking stock of 37 vast and interconnected world topics such as water, agriculture, oceans, forests, human rights, and 32 more. Between…
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An Invitation to Right Sharing
By Lynne Sootheran, Right Sharing of World Resources Greetings, Friends. My purpose here is to introduce members of Quaker Earthcare Witness and others interested in healing the Earth to Donor-Designated Projects available through Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR). Since 1967, RSWR, a Quaker organization, has worked…
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Massachusetts Quakers Host Carbon Tax Forum
By Maureen Lanan and Mary Gilbert As Friends deeply concerned about climate disruption and seeking ways to reduce the fossil fuel pollution spewing into the air, the Cambridge Quaker Earthcare Witness committee of Friends Meeting at Cambridge (FMC) was excited to learn that a carbon tax bill has…
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Apply for a QEW 2014 Mini-Grant!
Have you been thinking about doing an Earthcare project this spring but don’t know where to start? Take advantage of a funding opportunity QEW offers through QEW Mini-Grants. Put together a group of like-minded Friends and fill out our application, and your project could be awarded up…
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Letters to Share March-April 2014
Dear BeFriending Creation, Thank you so very much for publishing both of our articles in the latest edition (BFC, January-February 2014)…it was quite exciting to see us in print like that. We meant to include our Meeting affiliation—Mohawk Valley MM, New York Yearly Meeting—and share that…
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