Green action - preview
Guest editor Laurie Michaelis introduces our special edition and the exciting Living Witness developments across the UK
Last year, a succession of news releases brought home the growing likelihood of serious impacts from climate change Quakers are increasingly asking what they can do about it This issue of The Friend focuses on practical action by Friends and Meetings But it perhaps begs the question, do we have a particular Quaker contribution to make? I believe that we do
Our government has long been committed to action Its 1997 manifesto promised a twenty per cent reduction in UK CO2 emissions by 2010 but in 2005 emissions were two per cent up on 1997 Its longer term target of a sixty per cent cut by 2050 looks even more unrealistic with current policy approaches based on technology and market instruments Not surprisingly, many people now believe that climate change is inevitable and we must learn to live with the consequences
Laurie Michaelis
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International Edition: Researching Quaker ancestors
Michael Hargreave International edition: Helping young people to deal with the past
Diana & John Lampen Country of the week: Zimbabwe
Green action
Laurie Michaelis Sustainability in our Meetings
Contraction & convergence – the solution to climate change?
David Maxwell, Bedford MM Travel & transport: how far can we go on renewables?
Martin Quick Letters
editorial@thefriend.org Reducing your energy footprint
Anne Brewer An inconvenient truth
Gwen Prince & Laurie Michaelis Travel dilemmas
Recovering heat
Roger Sanderson Preserving the natural environment: wildlife gardening
Reg Snowdon
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