I just read an article in the current issue of The Canadian Friend that resonated very strongly with me. In “Making Peace With Our Place on the Planet”, Tony McQuail of Kitchener Monthly Meeting writes: Something that has been helpful to me is distinguishing between my circle of concern and my circle of influence. If [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Quakers’
26 Nov
Moral analysis
Here’s a great article about our project from Resurgence Magazine by Jack Santa Barbara, the Director of the Sustainable Scale Project and Associate of the Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University. The neoclassical economic paradigm that has been so successful at providing material goods is clearly identified as the main culprit in both the [...]
3 Sep
Symposium videos, part one!
That’s right – the videos from the May 15-16 Montreal symposium are now ready to go! Here’s the first bunch – bear with me here, this is going to be a bit of a long post. More videos to follow shortly! Stuart Myiow gives the “words that come before all else”: Geoff Garver introduces the [...]
31 Aug
Videos – at last!
Okay, I have finally learned how to post Vimeo videos to this blog – huzzah! The following two videos are from our May symposium in Montreal. The first is Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair at the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment. The second is Laurie Michaelis of the Living Witness Project. Laurie is [...]
25 Aug
They also serve…
There’s a Quaker joke (not a terribly good one, I admit, but have you ever heard any good Quaker jokes? yeah, me neither) about a man who comes into Meeting for Worship and is puzzled by the lack of anything obvious happening, so he leans over to the Friend next to him and whispers “Excuse [...]
27 Jul
A Quaker response to climate change
Britain Yearly Meeting has just posted a statement on their website from Susan Seymour, Clerk, Meeting for Sufferings. I’m just going to post it in its entirety: “The crisis of global climate change represents a supreme test of humanity’s collective wisdom and courage. Our immoderate use of the Earth’s resources violates the entire biosphere, threatening [...]
6 Jul
Elsewhere on the internets…
Just a quick note today: I want to give you folks out in blogland a quick rundown of all the other ways you can get in touch with the Moral Economy Project. – On Twitter, we are @moraleconomy – come follow us! – We have a discussion board on WiserEarth, where we’re posting all the [...]
8 Jun
Robert Howell interviewed on GreenPlanetFM
Dr. Robert Howell, CEO of the Council for Socially Responsible Investment in New Zealand, talks about Right Relationship and the need for a whole earth economy on GreenPlanetFM in New Zealand (click to listen). Robert Howell is one of the five authors of the book. “At the [Montreal] seminar, and at various other symposiums that [...]
21 May
Introduction
Hi everyone! My name is Grace, and this is the blog of the Moral Economy Project, a program of the Quaker Institute for the Future. We’re a Montreal-based Quaker environmental group, focused on ways to divert the economic system from its current, ruinous course into one that works for humanity and the rest of the [...]
