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Sustainability... for Peace newsletter
16 January 2012

January 2012

In this issue:

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Environment, Peace, Sustainability

Welcome to Paul Parish
11 January 2012

 

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Environment, Peace, Sustainability

Website - can you help?
11 January 2012

 

The sustainability area of the QPSW website is set for some big and exciting changes over the next few months. Keep checking www.quaker.org.uk/sustainability to access improved resources, news, FAQs and ideas for action and to be inspired by the activities of other Friends and Meetings.

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Environment, Peace, Sustainability

10:10:10: A global day of doing
11 January 2012

The 10:10 campaign – a movement of people, school, businesses and organizations cutting their carbon by 10% in a year is organising a global day of doing on climate change on Sunday 10th October 2010. Has your meeting signed up to 10:10? Could you? Across the world 1000s of people are going to be taking part in simple steps to reduce carbon emissions and send a message to global leaders that people everywhere are willing to tackle climate change. Could you join in? For more information see www.1010global.org.

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Environment, Peace, Sustainability

Action on climate change
11 January 2012

Policy change is vital in response to climate change. Below are a number of campaigns you may wish to add your voice to.

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The Stop Climate Chaos Coalition is calling for people across the UK to connect with others in their communities on 5th-6th November and lobby their MPs on climate change.

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Environment, Peace, Sustainability

Major Consultation of Quakers Worldwide
11 January 2012

 

Major consultation of Quakers worldwide – make your contribution on issues of ‘global change’

Woodbrooke and Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), with encouragement from QPSW, are hosting Global Change Cluster Gatherings on the weekend of January 14-16, 2011 at Woodbrooke.

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Environment, Peace, Sustainability

Adapting to climate change
11 January 2012

 Much coverage of the negotiations on climate change focuses on the debate over carbon emissions reduction targets to try and prevent dangerous climate change. However, for many people climate change is already a fact of life, and negotiators are also debating finance for adaptation.

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Environment, Peace, Sustainability

Working Together
11 January 2012

The Sustainability and Peace programme is committed to collaborating with Quaker and non-Quaker organisations working on sustainability and peace. Here are three examples of initiatives we have been involved in or that are coming up for you to join.

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Environment, Peace, Sustainability

Quakers and sustainability: a snapshot of Friends’ activities
23 September 2011

 

Between April and June 2009, almost 200 Quaker Meetings wrote minutes supporting a corporate statement on climate change and describing the actions they are taking to live more sustainably. This report summarises those actions and the challenges Quakers still face.

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Quakers host multi-faith event on climate change
15 February 2011

The United Nations Assistant Secretary General, Olav Kjørven and leading religious and scientific figures will join people of all faiths on 4 November at Many Heavens, One Earth: Faiths, the Environment and Copenhagen, a major London event hosted by the Quakers in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate conference.

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Environment, Many Heavens