School Climate Protests 15 March 2019
It began with a Swedish 9th grader Greta Thunberg in August 2018 and as of tomorrow on the 15 March 2019 Earth Strike will count tens of thousands of school children supported by some of the world's biggest environmental groups demanding that governments reduce carbon...
Hate Speech Tracker #EP2019 and #choose respect
A message from Andrew Lane, the director of Quaker Council for European Affairs QCEA will be launching a new website (chooserespect.eu) on anti-migrant political discourse in European Parliament elections. (Recall that the elections are coming up in May 2019.) We are...
Half of EU member states have hit or are close to hitting their 2020 renewable energy targets
A recent article from the World Economic Forum gives this good news but tempers it with further news that there is a "slow-down in rates of renewable energy use across the EU." This makes it possible that the whole of the EU will miss its 2030 target of at least 32%...
Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5C – Urgent climate action now
QUNO has published a 34 page Summary for Policymakers of a 700 page report from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) which was itself a collation of findings from 6,000 peer-reviewed research papers. The report is a reference for wider society,...
Thoughts on non-violent communication
"Our diversity invites all of us to speak, of which we know (think, belief) to be true in our lives and to learn from others." from Quaker Faith and Practice 1.01 Thoughts of a friend on the topic of the Annual Meeting Although not a Quaker, still an inquirer,...
Restoring Relations – “conflict is inevitable, it’s how we handle it that matters”
How do we have difficult conversations? Can we restore relations?
70th Anniversary of Quakers and the Nobel Peace Prize
Yesterday marked the the 70th anniversary of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Friends Service Council and American Friends Service Committee, representing British and Americans Quakers more widely. Read further on the Quaker Strong Rooms blog from the Library of...