Here’s something worth taking a look at!
On her blog “A Musing Environment”, Karen Street generally focuses on scientific developments in the environmental field. She doesn’t go much into matters of faith.
Last Friday, though, Karen reported that two liberal unprogrammed Friends monthly meetings were considering the idea of reducing their greenhouse gas emissions 10% in the coming year. “What will it take?” she asked.
This question has so far drawn eleven thoughtful responses from readers and one follow-up comment from Karen herself.
Karen puts the focus on what individuals can do in their own lives. She speaks of “a community effort”, but appears to mean by this, “people talking to one another while working on their own.” This of course is different from what I proposed to Baltimore YM — that we pool our time and resources in some big shared projects, including a shared effort to get all of us off the fossil-fuel grid together, in much the same way that we pooled our time and resources, through AFSC, to meet the needs of World War victims, or that folks pool their time and resources through Habitat for Humanity to build houses for the poor.
Nonetheless, the effort these two meetings are talking about is a noteworthy start.
You can look in on the discussion, and add a comment if the Spirit moves, here.
