Category: Resources
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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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Welcome, Katherine!
by Shelley Tanenbaum, QEW Clerk 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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Welcome, Katherine!
by Shelley Tanenbaum, QEW Clerk 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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Thank you, Louis!
by Dick Grossman, Continuing Counsel Clerk 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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Earthcare, Our Spiritual Journey Home
By Mary C. Coelho and Mary Jo Klingel Illustrations by Mary C. Coelho The New Story prepares us for further evolution in human consciousness, to become active participants in the creative Earth process. “WHAT does that have to do with me? So what?” That’s how some people respond when told…
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Sustainability and Truth
By Louis Cox. THE TERM “SUSTAINABILITY” came into fashion with the modern environmental movement, particularly after the 1992 UN Earth Summit. The concept has offered hope in the face of relentless bad news by highlighting things that ordinary people can do that would make a big difference if enough…
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Peace on Earth, Peace with Earth: Living in a Radically New Way
By Kim Carlyle. Living in a Radically New Way SINCE 1955 when he registered as a conscientious objector, Karl Meyer has been an activist for peace, advocating nonviolence, organizing demonstrations, and refusing to pay taxes to finance war. Over the years, he has come to realize that an…
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Living in Right Relationship
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY QUAKER John Woolman called for living in the “right relationship” as he witnessed to his generation against the evils of slavery, oppression, and materialism- which he warned were causing injury to future generations. We discern a similar dynamic of greed and thoughtlessness in today’s global environmental crisis.
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Quakers Practicing Sustainability
This article is part of QEW’s Pamphlets for Sharing Series. Download it here or email info@quakerearthcare.org Practicing Sustainability—What Does It Mean for Friends? Caterpillars undergo transformation into butterflies; tadpoles into frogs. This is metamorphosis. Can we transform our culture and our individual lives to…
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