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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 […]
Keith Helmuth, a member of New Brunswick Monthly Meeting in Canada, is one of the founders of the Quaker Institute for the Future and is the secretary of its Board.
Posted in: FeaturesAnother 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 […]
Ace Hoffman, an educational software developer who writes frequently about nuclear issues, lives in Carlsbad, Calif. He is the author of DNA and Ionizing Radiation: A Dangerous Mix, available for free download from his website http://www.acehoffman.org. Janette D. Sherman, who attends Alexandria (Va.) Meeting., is an internist and toxicologist, and the author of Life's Delicate Balance: Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer and Chemical Exposure and Disease. See http://www.janettesherman.com.
Posted in: FeaturesEspere Su Luz
Ciudad del Maíz, in the state of San Luis Potosí, México, is a four‐stoplight town. Posted at the first light […]
A. Laurel Green was a member of Putney (Vt.) Meeting for 20 years before moving to Mexico. She teaches English in her village there, and she is co-writing a book about her experiences. She can be reached at [email protected]
Posted in: FeaturesAn 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 […]
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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 […]
Ted Inoué, who lives in New Hope, Pa., is a Certified Sustainable Building Advisor working as an energy efficiency consultant. He is a founding member of Virescent Communities, a nonprofit organization that is creating a blueprint for the national reduction of the carbon footprint of existing homes. When not analyzing houses, Ted enjoys riding his bicycle around the farmland of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Posted in: FeaturesBuilding a Low‐Energy House
Our family lived in an old farmhouse for nearly 50 years. We spent
Don Laughlin is a member of West Branch (Iowa) Meeting. After release from Civilian Public Service in the 1940s, he and his wife, Lois, joined the staff of Scattergood Friends School for ten years. He also worked as a biomedical engineer at University of Iowa hospitals for 30 years. Now, his great concern is the environment and people's individual attitudes and actions. He is currently part of a co-op that makes biodiesel fuel from used cooking oil.
Posted in: FeaturesFriends 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 […]
Gordon Thompson attends Yonge Street Meeting in Newmarket, Ont. He is the manager for business development for a company that manufactures equipment that switches and controls electricity. He is also the current chair of Canadian Friends Historical Association.
Posted in: FeaturesGreen, Sustainable, or Vernacular?
Green A supporter of a social and political movement that espouses global environmental protection, bioregionalism, social responsibility, and nonviolence sus·tain […]
Jens Braun is a member of Old Chatham (N.Y.) Meeting. He currently spends his time farming and slow-building his family's house in the Quaker Intentional Village in Canaan, N.Y.
Posted in: FeaturesPublic 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 […]
Peter Javsicas, a member of Germantown Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., heads Pennsylvanians for Transportation Solutions, Inc. (PenTrans), http://www.pentrans.org, a statewide advocacy group that works for adequate public transportation in Pennsylvania.
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The Importance of Noise During Silent Worship by Ben Handy
In Which Today’s To‐dos Become Ta‐dahs! by Kat Griffith
Scenes from a Meetinghouse by Gunilla Norris
A Quaker Response to Gun Violence by Peter Murchison
The Land Remembers: Connecting with Native People through the Land by Paula Palmer
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