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| Environmental Page, September 2006 Emerson: "Things are in the saddle and ride mankind." Religion and the Environment National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Program www.nccecojustice.org World Council of Churches - What Do We Do? http://www.wcccoe.org/wcc/what/jpc/earthdocs.html www.QuakerEarthcare.org including www.QuakerEarthcare.org/ecowitness Green Living www.worldwildlife.org/consumer www.nrdc.org Link to the Living Green section or check out that part of their magazine on line. The Simple Living Network http://www.simpleliving.net/ http://www.newdream.org/cnad/user/user_pref.php Should I garden for wildlife and certify my yard as a Backyard Wildlife Habitat site? http://www.nwf.org/backyard/ Environment News http://www.ennmagazine.com Information on Pennsylvania http://www.pennfuture.org Friends and the Environment Read the work of Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting at http://www.quaker.org/ovym/2006epistles.html Also, read the presentation of Doris Ferm at the plenary session of Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting on the Yearly Meeting webpage. http://www.quaker.org/ovym/ferm.html Sierra Watch Southeastern Pennsylvania Group, July-September issue includes an article “Quakers Go Green” on Friends Center in Philadelphia. The presentation of Pat McBee on this at Residential Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was excellent. http://pennsylvania.sierraclub.org/southeastern/pages/SierraSummer06b.pdf We Can Build A Healthy Global Society: By what name will future generations know our time? By David Korten, YES! Magazine Posted on August 7, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/39789/ Tomkins County in New York (Ithaca) is really thinking about the future when we have limited energy resources. What can other regions do? Tompkins County Relocalization Plan Project http://www.ibiblio.org/tcrp/doc/project.htm Air Conditioning Reduces Hybrid Fuel Economy http://www.hybridcars.com/air-conditioning-effects.html Upcoming events: Global Warming: An Issue of Justice Wednesday, October 11, 2006 7:30 to 9:00 PM Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church 625 Montgomery Avenue Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 An evening of discussion about global warming and the role of people of faith. Pennsylvania's Future (PennFuture) and Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church. Featuring Jim Wallis, Author, "God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It.” A panel will speak about what individuals, organizations and government can do to make a difference here in Pennsylvania. Don't wait - register today. Call PennFuture to register at 1-800-321-7775. Pennsylvania Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Festival September 22-23, 2006 http://www.paenergyfest.com/ A comprehensive regional festival and conference on sustainability and green living at the Kempton Community Center Community Drive, Kempton, Berks County, Pennsylvania 19529 The Environmental Working Group of Swarthmore Meeting meets at 9:15 AM on the first Sunday of the month before Meeting in the Library. Contact Michael Santiago, Clerk, through the Meeting Office. The Working Group arranges the sale recycled paper products during Fellowship after Meeting twice a month. Contact Paul Greene through the Meeting Office. ENVIRONMENT QUERIES Like to develop a more environmentally-conscious lifestyle? The Meeting’s Environmental Working Group has designed a set of queries for your contemplation. You will find these at the rise of Meeting. In addition, the Environmental Working Group welcomes your feedback: please feel free to contact Paul Greene with comments.
“The first gleam of light, “the first cold light of morning” which gave promise of day with its noontide glories, dawned on me one day at Meeting, when I had been meditating on my state in great depression. I seemed to hear the words articulated in my spirit, “Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee.” Then I believed that God speaks…by His spirit. I strove to lead a more Christian life, in unison with what I knew to be right, and looked for brighter days, not forgetting the blessings that are granted to prayer.” Caroline Fox 1841: Memories of old Friends Published 1882 Extracted in Faith & Practice of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 2000, page 131       
 
                      
      
                
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