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May edition of the Living Witness Project newsletter, earthQuaker Check your greenhouse gas emissions - download our leaflet Get involved in the Living Witness Project or make a donation. Briefings: now available on Science or Swindle? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change UK Government draft climate change bill
Climate change has gained a high level of public awareness, but few people are ready for the deep changes needed in society and our way of life, if the worst impacts are to be avoided. Over 60 Quaker meetings are now involved in the Living Witness Project, connecting our spiritual life as worshiping communities with our witness for a sustainable world. Momentum is growing as Friends learn and work together, with regular groups and action to green their lives and meetings, practical projects in their local communities, and engagement with local and national government. Quakers have a particular contribution to make in responding to climate change and other sustainability challenges. We offer a way forward based on our own shared experience. It includes a commitment to simplicity and equality; willingness to question our own habits of thought and action; and – perhaps most distinctively – Quaker processes for developing a collective will for change in our own lives, our communities and wider society. The Living Witness Project supports members with information and how-to-do-it guides, e.g. for working out carbon footprints, leading study groups and organising environmental audits. It also offers facilitated workshops in local meetings. Individual Friends and representatives of Quaker meetings are welcome at our regular national gatherings. The
Living Witness Project is Registered Charity No. 1119938.
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