Economics

Fair Trade Coffee: A Glimpse behind the Scenes

You get up in the morning and brew or buy your coffee, feeling especially good because it’s certified fairtrade and…

Faith and Economics

Three memories from the time when I was about ten are swirling together in the same container. In the first,…

Behind the Budget: Are We Stuck with This High Risk Monetary System?

What Kind of Resource is Money? The subject here is money and how to use it responsibly. We all know…

The Quaker Peace Testimony, Economics, and the Common Good

Quakerism and Economics of the Common Good English Quaker John Bellers (1654- 1725) was the first social thinker to advance…

The Oil Depletion Protocol: How Alternative Fuels Can End Our Wars

Access to petroleum has been mentioned again and again as the primary reason for our nation’s current military engagement in…

A Quaker Family (Yours) Saves Energy

People in the United States, and Quakers in particular, are at a confluence of social, economic, and environmental events like…

Public Transportation in the Future

Several years ago, my wife and I paid a visit to the Women’s Suffrage Museum in Seneca Falls, N.Y. As…

Zeri: A Philosophy and Methodology to Reinvent the World

Many Friends have become increasingly concerned that our current economic system is not sustainable. Clearly, a perpetual growth economy is…

Supporting Tribal Community Development Loan Funds

One of the moral dilemmas facing many Friends and others in our relations with Native American tribes is how we…

Keeping It Simple: A Memoir about Women and Development in Senegal

As usual, I was the first to arrive at headquarters that morning in Dakar. Familiar with the lateness that ticks…

Juarez Reflections

The three empty bird cages are stacked forlornly against the wall of the house on the small concrete paved patio,…

Is Saving Seed a Human Right?

Quaker International Affairs Programme (QIAP) began its work in Ottawa by focusing on intellectual property rights and transnational trade. At…
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