Unity with Nature Committee

Unity with Nature [UwN] Committee’s function is to encourage, support, share, and bring forward Pacific Yearly Meeting Friends’ concerns, Witness, and Leadings for earth care and sustainability. Central to our concerns for the last many years is to slow and eventually stop global warming and its horrific proliferation of dire consequences for both humans and the whole ecosystem. We lift up and listen to each others’ living Testimonies caring for the earth.

UwN Committee’s page shares reports, links, and resources. Please email UwN’s current clerk with questions, comments, or suggestions or speak with any member of UwN committee. We welcome comments.

Current Reports

• Unity with Nature Committee Report to Annual Session 2017
• Unity with Nature Committee Report to RepCom 2017

Current Resources including the Mini-Grant Program

• Unity with Nature Mini-Grant Program Information and Application 2017-2018
• Unity with Nature Proposed Charter and Goals, rev. Oct. 2014
• What It Is Like to Be a Member of Unity With Nature, rev. June 2017
• DIY Carbon Tax Information Sheet
• Quaker Earthcare Witness website

Testimonies, Minutes, and Statements on Earthcare and Climate Change

• from PYM Friends bodies
  

  • PYM’s Minute of Accountability 2015 for reducing use of and divested from fossil fuels:
    • “We hold a deep concern for over‐reliance and investment in fossil fuels. We ask monthly meetings and individuals to engage in discernment on how to reduce their dependence and investment in fossil fuels. Meetings and individuals are asked to share their efforts with the greater community.” (Minute 2015-5)
  • Minute On Climate Change and Divestment from Fossil Fuels (2014) from Strawberry Creek Meeting

• from wider Friends bodies

  • Quaker Earthcare Witness and its Sustainability, Faith, and Action Working Group
    • QEW ‘Three Challenges for Sustainability’, 2015

Past Reports and Resources

• Unity with Nature Report to Annual Session 2016
• PYM Rep to Quaker Earthcare Witness Report to Annual Session 2016
• Unity with Nature Report to RepCom 2016
• UwN proposed minute on nuclear power (about 2011)
• Unity with Nature Report to RepCom 2011 (PDF file)
• Unity With Nature Committee old website from 2002 (website link hosted on Quaker.org, here for historical purposes)