Sustainability

The Sustainability and Peace programme drives, facilitates and supports action and reflection to develop a Quaker witness to sustainability and peace and transform Britain Yearly Meeting into a sustainable community. We hope that through our witness we can help transform Britain into a sustainable community.

We are called to live simpler low-carbon lives in response to climate change and the threat it poses to the lives and livelihoods of millions of people and thousands of species. But for Quakers sustainable living is more than this. It is part of the process of bringing our lives and meetings closer to the truth that we experience in our worship and proclaim in our lives. It is integral to our commitment to all our testimonies.

In striving to live sustainably together we build peace and in bearing witness to peace we search for sustainable ways of living. Peace, in its fullest sense, means wholeness or integrity and a commitment to peace means living in ways that help to make the world balanced and whole. So we are lead to find ways of being in the world that are equitable, do not contain the ‘seeds of war’, build community, and celebrate and maintain the integrity and beauty of creation.