Loving The Earth
Resources for Learning & Engagement
“In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.”
Baba Doum, 1968 Conference Speech in New Delhi
The Friends Wilderness Center is focusing
many of its programs for 2020 on the themes of connecting with Nature and of
living sustainably. Our February 2020
program explored Climate Change science, offered ways in which we can become
more deeply connected to the Earth in a loving and reverential way, and then
asked us to draw on that deepened affection for the Earth to empower us to take
meaningful action for its long term health and preservation.
In the spirit of the above quote, this page
has been created as an online resource for people attending the Feb 22nd
program at the Langley Hills Friends Meeting for their continued learning and
engagement following the event and it is being left here on the FWC website for
the long term use of our virtual audience who visits our website. We hope you find these resources both useful
and relevant. This page offers resources that will help you live
more sustainably, simply and quite often more richly in the spiritual and
holistic health sense. We also offer
ways that you can work with others, drawing on your core skills, to bring about
the truly BIG changes at the local and national level that will be necessary to
curb global climate disruption and mitigate the damage being done to the planet
at present. While many of us are
justifiably concerned about the plight of the Polar Bears and the Amazon Rain
Forest (Our Sphere of Concern), we at the FWC feel it is more important that we
in the Mid-Atlantic States focus on what we can do to be of service near our
homes (Our Sphere of Influence).
The inputs for this page have come from
persons who are intimately familiar with both the science of global climate
disruption and the related issues (e.g., political, cultural, economic) and are
designed to both educate and inspire. We
hope you agree after browsing what we have to offer here.
Videos:
1. 9 Year Old Climate activist, Zayne
Cowie, reads his rhyming story book: https://youtu.be/0j_kmPn41r8
2. Greta and George: Greta Thunberg and
George Monbiot offer one way to flight
atmospheric CO2: https://youtu.be/aUCD_24cygQ
3. High Tide In Dorchester County: A sobering look at potential Sea Level Rise in the Chesapeake Bay: https://hightidedorchester.org/
Carbon Footprint Resources The following reources are provided by Rick Morgan who gave the Carbon Footprint Presentation at the Feb 22nd event at Langley Hill Meeting: Leading
carbon footprint calculators:
CoolClimate
Network (U.C. Berkeley) carbonfootprint.com
(U.K) Cool
Congregations (Interfaith Power & Light) Other
resources:
CoolClimate
Network’s map of US household carbon footprint by Zip Code EPA's
greenhouse gas equivalency calculator
Passionate Voices:
1. Joanna Macy’s website instills hope,
calls you to action, and offers heartfelt engagement with the Earth that
sustains us: https://www.joannamacy.net/ Sustainable Living: Friends’ organizations working on climate issues:
https://www.quakerearthcare.org/
https://www.fcnl.org/updates?issue=environment-energy#filters
https://www.bym-rsf.org/what_we_do/committees/nature/
https://quakersandclimatechange.com/
A Shared Quaker
Statement: Facing the Challenge of Climate Change
A joint statement on climate change endorsed by
>100 Friends’ organizations around the world, including Baltimore Yearly
Meeting
https://www.quakerearthcare.org/article/shared-quaker-statement-facing-challenge-climate-change
BYM
Unity with Nature Committee's "Call to Calculate Carbon"
Includes instructions on calculating carbon
footprints for individuals and congregations, with links to leading carbon
footprint calculators, and list of “next steps” measures to reduce one's carbon
footprint
https://nextstepsearch.wordpress.com/call-to-calculate-carbon/?iframe=true&preview=true
https://nextstepsearch.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/next-steps-in-journey-to-right-relationship-with-creation/?iframe=true&preview=true
Biodiversity
for a Liveable Climate
A resource on regenerative agricultural practices
to restore soils
https://bio4climate.org/
Project Drawdown
A resource for climate solutions
https://www.drawdown.org/
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