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Laura Cynthia Sutherland Gibian

Gibian—Laura Cynthia Sutherland Gibian, 102, on February 3, 2020, completing her journey in her Friends House apartment in Sandy Spring,…
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Should Quakers Support Climate Engineering?

Ethical Decision-Making in Risk Environments The rise of complex technologies has thrown ethical decision making for a loop. The risk…

Another View on Nuclear Power

We were aghast, and surely we weren’t the only ones, to see such a frighteningly pro-nuclear article as "A Friend’s…

Espere Su Luz

Ciudad del Maíz, in the state of San Luis Potosí, México, is a four-stoplight town. Posted at the first light…

An Addiction that Must Be Broken

With growing awareness of "green" issues, Friends likely share my concern about energy supplies and how we all are going…

Life During the Decline of Oil

What is happening in this crazy world? We pay almost $100 to fill our gas tanks and thousands of dollars…

Building a Low-Energy House

Our family lived in an old farmhouse for nearly 50 years. We spent

Friends and the Consumption and Generation of Electricity

My perception is that present discussion and advocacy among Friends concerning generating electricity has not matured into a robust discernment…

Green, Sustainable, or Vernacular?

Green A supporter of a social and political movement that espouses global environmental protection, bioregionalism, social responsibility, and nonviolence sus·tain…

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…

A Friend's Path to Nuclear Power

Over a decade ago, I held opinions about nuclear energy similar to those of many Friends. I worked against nuclear…
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