Unity with Nature Committee
The Unity with Nature Committee works to express concerns regarding the environment and our place within it.
Click to see the complete description of the Committee as it appears in the current Manual of Procedure. Are Quakers Called to Live Sustainably? is a set of queries proposed by the Unity with Nature Committee to aid Friends. Listed below are the current members of the Committee.
Jean Pfefferkorn, Co-Clerk Patapsco Friends Meeting | Ann Payne, Co-Clerk Frederick Friends Meeting |
Carl Benson Annapolis Friends Meeting | Deborah Haines, |
Leonard "Len" McGinnis Friends Meeting School | Sue Woerthwein |
Susan Thompson | Barb Adams Richmond Friends Meeting |
Toni Hudson UwN Supporter (Consultant) Sandy Spring Friends Meeting |
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10 Steps to Nature Video Project
Click here to download the Introductory Video
Click here to download the Introductory Video
IMAGINE LIVING INSIDE THE CARBON CYCLE
Recent Discernments by Unity with Nature Committee on Human Caused Climate Change
We are evolving from a time when human caused carbon emissions, primarily carbon dioxide, are considered free and unlimited. In the spirit of ongoing revelation, we have come to learn through the discernment of science that neither of these assumptions are true. The buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is leading to greater heat retention in the atmosphere with destructive consequences to the life resilience of our beloved creation at tremendous cost. The question is, who will benefit and who will pay
Unity with Nature Committee at Third Month 2016 Interim Meeting
BYM has embraced Unity with Nature Committee's call for BYM worshipers to calculate your carbon footprint.
With so much at stake, BYM's Unity with Nature Committee requests that BYM worshipers seek to determine their own carbon footprint as a witness to the impact of our own actions. We might also examine the carbon footprints of our local Friends meetings. This process will be challenging, interesting and meaningful. It will deepen our understanding of the consequences of our behaviors and help us prioritize our next steps on the path to a sustainable and just world for our children and for people who are most vulnerable to climate change.
For Friends, tracking our own carbon footprints can be a form of witness to our own actions. Each of us can show good faith by looking honestly at our lifestyles and how they impact the sustainability of the earth’s natural systems.
How do we show good faith in searching for next steps on our journey to our right relationship with creation?
In the spirit of evolving revelation, we have come to find our current practices and behaviors out of step with the right relationship to protect and enhance life resilience on Earth and a sustainable role for our human community.
Power Point Presentation on Carbon Footprint Training
The BYM Unity with Nature List Serve is being created for Friends of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to share our witness of current trends in our environment and the implications to our spirit in our search for the loving way forward. Our hope is that you will share your knowledge and provide a respectful testing for the discernment of others in the spirit of ongoing revelation. You can share and find support for your concern about the darkness. You can help build the vision of the love response that will protect and enhance our beloved creation and the opportunity for the lives of our descendants.
If you have difficulty with request, send email unitywithnature@gmail.com with Join Request in the subject line. The list manager will add you to the member list at your request.
25 Meetings of Baltimore Yearly Meeting Find Unity with Shared Quaker Statement "Facing the Challenge of Climate Change"
At Annual Session 2015, BYM embraced the Unity with Nature Committee’s request that Meetings actively consider unifying with the shared Quaker Statement “Facing the Challenge of Climate Change”, jointly authored by Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW), Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), and Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO). https://unitywithnaturebym.wordpress.com/shared-quaker-statement-2/
The Unity with Nature Committee asks all BYM worshipers to consider making a good faith effort to search for steps that will lead us in the direction of “Right Relationship with Creation” that will allow us to preserve the life resilience and integrity in our very blessed environment. https://unitywithnaturebym.wordpress.com/next-steps-search/
At Annual Session 2014, BYM embraced the Unity with Nature’s request to discern Discernment on Right Relationship in preparation for Annual Session 2015 with that theme. 33 BYM local Meetings submitted spirit lead discernments. BYM Meetings respond to discernment request.
Are Quakers Called to Live Sustainably? is a set of queries proposed by the Unity with Nature Committee to aid Friends.
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Abingdon Friends Meeting
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Annapolis Friends Meeting
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Baltimore Monthly Meeting, Stony Run
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Bethesda Friends Meeting
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Blacksburg Friends Meeting
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Charlottesville Friends Meeting
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Dunnings Creek Meeting
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Frederick Friends Meeting
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Gettysburg Monthly Meeting
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Goose Creek Friends Meeting
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Gunpowder Friends Meeting
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Herndon Friends Meeting
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Homewood Friends Meeting
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Little Falls Meeting of Friends
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Mattaponi Friends Meeting
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Maury River Friends Meeting
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Midlothian Friends Meeting
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Monongalia Friends Meeting
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Norfolk Preparative Meeting
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Patuxent Friends Meeting
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Richmond Friends Meeting
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Sandy Spring Friends Meeting
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Takoma Park Preparative Meeting
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Valley Friends Meeting
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York Friends Meeting
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DISCERN ON CLIMATE CHANGE, RESOURCE DEPLETION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AT 2014 ANNUAL SESSIONS.
