Category: Resources
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Visioning the Future in a Full Earth
David Millar For some years it has been clear that environmental doom-saying, because it is a poor motivator, is a dead end. However true the predictions of global overheating, climate chaos, resource wars, pollution, and disease (with consequent mass death or displacement) may be, they lead most people to despair…
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Statement on Unity with Diversity
The Spiritual Nurturance Committee, QEW Dear Friends, As both Friends and environmentalists we on the Spiritual Nurturance Committee of Quaker Earthcare Witness hold a variety of personal views, beliefs and approaches based in the variety of our backgrounds, traditions and experiences. We see it as good…
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Welcome to QEW’s Earthcare Center!
Shelley Tanenbaum QEW Friends are invited to visit our Earthcare Center at Friends General Conference this summer, July 1-5, 2013. We are planning an interesting range of presentations every afternoon (except Wednesday, the FGC day of rest, when we’ll show films). You’ll find a schedule posted on our…
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Quaker Earthcare Witness & Long-Range Planning
Anne Mitchell QEW is moving into an exciting period of its existence. At the October 2012 gathering, we reminisced about the first 25 years of the organization from its founding in 1987. Those at that first meeting in 1987 concluded, “There is a need for Friends to give forceful witness…
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An Accidental Activist
Katherine Murray My daughter and I drove through a dramatic April rainstorm to hear the gentle stories and powerful inspiration shared by Dr. Jane Goodall on April 17. Of the many beautiful and poignant ideas in Dr. Goodall’s talk, one in particular has stayed with me over the passing weeks.
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Continuing the Conversation
Judy Lumb Circles of Discernment and Leadings and Concern Groups give Friends the opportunity to deepen and share Quaker Institute for the Future (QIF), as a way to facilitate Spirit-led research and action in the manner of Friends using worship sharing and group discernment on topics of critical importance for the future of…
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Letters from Our Readers
Rory Short, Johannesburg Monthly Meeting Dear QEW Friends, I discovered your website today. It speaks to me. First some personal background: I am a member of Central and Southern Africa Yearly Meeting and within it I am a member of Johannesburg Monthly Meeting. I am in my mid-seventies and have…
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Placing Concern for Earth Center-Stage
Recently a Friend brought to our attention Sarah Moon’s original play, Tauris, which invites audiences to consider contemporary environmental concerns in the context of Greek drama. Tauris will soon have its world premiere as part of the 5th Annual Planet Connections Theatre Festivity in June 2013. Following is a Q&A…
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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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Bringing Hope & Action to Our Earth Witness
by Dick Grossman, Durango (CO) Friends Meeting Our co-housing community is on ranch land, much of which has been abandoned to wildlife. Our housing cluster is in the middle of this beautiful land. Unfortunately, there are several fence lines with rusted barbed wire presenting hazards to man and animals alike.
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One Week at Doha
by Oliver Robertson Associate Representative at QUNO and QEW Representative to COP 18 It always seems impossible until it is done. –Nelson Mandela This is one of the inspiring phrases sitting on my desk at the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva, a desk more than 4,500 kilometres from the…
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Calling All Voices
by Mary Gilbert, QEW Representative to the UN I’ve been going to the United Nations for 12 years now, witnessing how the nations of the world deal with human impact on our planet’s health. Everyone acknowledges that certain problems, such as ocean acidification, sea level rise, unprecedented flooding and…
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Queries on Faith and Genetics
Submitted by Anne Mitchell Queries on Faith and Genetics Sustainability and QEW A Friendly Interview with the New QEW Publications Coordinator Don’t Give Up Your Leading When Will We Wake? Think Globally, Act Locally A…
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Sustainability and QEW
by Anne Mitchell, QEW General Secretary Queries on Faith and Genetics Sustainability and QEW A Friendly Interview with the New QEW Publications Coordinator Don’t Give Up Your Leading When Will We Wake? Think Globally, Act Locally…
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A Friendly Interview with the New QEW Publications Coordinator
by Louis Cox, Outgoing QEW Publications Coordinator Queries on Faith and Genetics Sustainability and QEW A Friendly Interview with the New QEW Publications Coordinator Don’t Give Up Your Leading When Will We Wake? Think Globally, Act Locally…
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Don’t Give Up Your Leading
by David Millar, Montreal Friends Meeting Queries on Faith and Genetics Sustainability and QEW A Friendly Interview with the New QEW Publications Coordinator Don’t Give Up Your Leading When Will We Wake? Think Globally, Act Locally…
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When Will We Wake?
by Angela Manno, Fifteenth Street Meeting (NY) Queries on Faith and Genetics Sustainability and QEW A Friendly Interview with the New QEW Publications Coordinator Don’t Give Up Your Leading When Will We Wake? Think Globally, Act Locally…
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Think Globally, Act Locally
by Carolyn Hiatt, Indianapolis (IN) First Friends Meeting Queries on Faith and Genetics Sustainability and QEW A Friendly Interview with the New QEW Publications Coordinator Don’t Give Up Your Leading When Will We Wake? Think Globally, Act…
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A City of Two Tales
by Louis Cox, Burlington (VT) Friends Meeting Queries on Faith and Genetics Sustainability and QEW A Friendly Interview with the New QEW Publications Coordinator Don’t Give Up Your Leading When Will We Wake? Think Globally, Act Locally…
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