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Sustainability

About Us

We are called to live in right relationship with all Creation, recognizing that the entire world is interconnected and is a manifestation of God, and is therefore to be respected, protected, and held in reverence.
 
We promote these truths by being patternas and examples, by communicating our message, and by providing spiritual and material support, as we are able, to those engaged in transforming our relationship to the earth.

Our 13-acre site, although at a busy intersection, is a bit of relatively open space in an 

Pollinator

increasingly developed suburban landscape. We wish to exercise good environmental care of it, while preserving our historic Meetinghouse with its modern additions (and other related buildings).

The meeting secured a landscape plan, and with its guidance we have established a certified pollinator garden. 
         
 ChildrensGardenWe have also designed a rain garden, a children’s garden for our school, and a community garden.

We are striving to reduce mowing by experimenting with no-mow native groundcovers in our burial ground.
 
We also discourage the use of disposable kitchen and dining utensils, and we are thinking long-term about a heat pump or solar energy.
Cemetery

 
We will care for our wider community by building a bus shelter at the well-used bus stop on the edge of the grounds, with a safer access than has been the case.
 
Committee Members
Judy Inskeep, co-clerk
Kathleen Geist, co-clerk
Leif Anderson
Christopher Mrozinski 
Connie Lezenby
Paige Menton
Deb Faulkner
Tom Bishop
 

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Mission

We are in unity with the organization Quaker Earthcare Witness, whose "vision and witness" statement we have taken as our own, with slight modification.

We are called to live in right relationship with all Creation, recognizing that the entire world is interconnected and is a manifestation of God.

We work to integrate into the beliefs and practices of the Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends and our local community the Truth that God's Creation is to be respected, protected, and held in reverence in its own right, and the Truth that human aspirations for peace and justice depend upon restoring the earth's ecological integrity.

We promote these truths by being models and examples, by communicating our message, and by providing spiritual and material support to those engaged in the compelling task of transforming our relationship to the earth.
 


Sustainability (Eco) Committee Programs:

New programs pending.


Log on to these sites for more information:

Quaker Earthcare Witness,
www.quakerearthcare.org

Phildelphia Yearly Meeting's Earthcare Working Group,
www.pym.org/pym_wgs/earthcarewg.php

PYM's Climate Action Network,
www.pym.org/pym_wgs/climateaction.php
 


Sustainable Choice Articles

 

 

Arthur D'Adamo, 11/19/2020