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This month, The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) shares three new resources related to sustainability. We hope they will provide you with inspiration and some new ideas to take action.
Quakers in Loughborough, UK, have published a handbook advising Friends on lifestyle changes they can make to live more sustainably. See what sustainable living might look like.
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Friendly water for the world seeks do assist communities in combating not just water scarcity, but also deforestation and infectious disease.
We must make the outcomes of our work sustainable.
Every technology and training and optimizing action must be designed for sustainability.
We don't have all the answers. We do have a lot of questions:
But what do sustainable Rainwater Catchment Tanks look like?
How do you engage communities in sustainable long-term partnerships?
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Dear Friends,
Please forward this link to Friends in your meeting. It goes to a collection of short Quaker videos by the producers of Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries
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Friends, it has been a difficult year, now more than a year. We are carrying a lot of grief individually and collectively in our Monthly Meetings, Yearly Meeting and in the world. Pacific Yearly Meeting’s Ministry Committee has set aside a time to come together as a larger body to grieve, to voice the pain that we are holding, to lay down our burdens and to be held in the Love and Wisdom of God and in the arms of community.
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Dear Friends,
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Have Friends’ meetings for worship and business become – as Laurie Childers describes in the March/April 2021 issue of Western Friend – places to go to experience “a spiritual practice for calming our own nerves, like going to a spa”?
We certainly have much happening in our world that keeps us from being calm. What is the role of Friends in these urgent times? Do we still seek to listen to the “still small voice” and respond? Or are we unable to hear that voice and instead speak out of anger, fear, or self-righteousness? Or do we fear speaking out at all?
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Congress must no longer exclude D.C. residents from the democratic process. D.C. residents should no longer have to sit on the sidelines as decisions are made that impact them directly. They deserve full representation in both chambers of Congress.
Voter suppression continues to threaten our democracy. Here is one way we can push back:
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with Karen Tibbals, a passionate speaker on building relationships among those with differing political views.
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On April 11, 2021, Reno Friends Meeting reiterated its endorsement of the Citizens' Climate Lobby and their "Energy Innovation Act," a carbon fee-based legislative proposal which may be considered by the US House of Representatives in the near future. Betsy Fadali, a long-time Reno Friend who has been supporting the work of CCL for many years, encourage Friends to contact Congress at this time.
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Dear Friends,
A deeply felt thank you to Western Friend for including in the early spring issue a selection from my book from SUNY Press (State University of New York) that highlights my Quaker family, their leadings and calling to work for equality and peace.
It is An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights (SUNY Press, State University of New York, 2021).
