Valerie Joy from the Australia Yearly Meeting voiced her concerns about her healthcare insurance provider, Medibank’s, investment in fossil fuels companies. Read her letter here to gain some inspiration for your own affirmative actions.
Author: quakersandclimate
Quaker Earthcare Statement
The Australian Quaker Earthcare Committee invites us all to pray, read, act, and celebrate Earthcare. Read the latest Earthcare Invitation here.
Costing not less than everything – Pam Lunn
Listen to the 2011 Swarthmore Lecture delivered by Pam Lunn on ‘Costing not Less than Everything: sustainability and spirituality in challenging times’. Pam’s lecture addresses the unsustainability of the way we all live in the industrialised west. This can be found here (audio).
Woodbroke’s courses and study packs
Woodbrooke, based in Birmingham UK, runs a number of courses on sustainability and climate change; both onsite and online. You can find the latest courses here – and then search using the ‘Quick Course Finder’ under Adventurous Living. Woodbrooke has also produced a number of study packs for meetings and other Quaker groups. These resources were produced as part of Woodbrooke’s Good Lives project and are available for free online here.
Canadian Civil Society Statement:
Closing the International Accountability Gap in the Extractive Sector: We call on the Government of Canada to ensure that people harmed by the overseas operations of Canadian mining, oil and gas companies are able to access justice in Canada.
Energy in the new economy
Towards a green and fair energy system for all: This QPSW booklet explores how we could build a just and sustainable energy system in the UK in tune with Quaker testimony.
Ownership in the new economy
This booklet asks how we understand ownership of the earth’s natural resources in a sustainable and equitable way. Ownership in the new economy is the sixth booklet in QPSW’s new economy series. It aims to help Quakers and others explore alternatives to our current economic system.
Fracking: a briefing for Friends
Across the UK, Quakers are taking action on fracking. This briefing explains why our governments should ban fracking and suggests ways that you can take action.
A guide to divesting from fossil fuels
Advice for meetings: Following the divestment of Britain Yearly Meeting’s central funds in 2013, Quaker meetings around Britain are also divesting from fossil fuels. Drawing on their experience, in this guide we outline the process for raising and completing divestment.
