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Becoming a member of the Environmental Working Group
A member or recognized attender who has attended a meeting may express interest in joining the group. After attending a second meeting and reviewing material about the group's mission and projects, a Friend who asks to join will be considered for membership.
Project Activities
- Lifting up this concern in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's monthly meetings through
- maintaining and developing a monthly meeting network of phone, mail, and e-mail contact people,
- promoting EWG's "affirmation of commitment," and "queries and advices," and encouraging Friends to consider simplicity of lifestyle as step toward ecological and spiritual transformation,
- providing resources for monthly meetings, including visits by EWG members, adult discussion leaders, the Yearly Meeting's library collection, adult first day school curriculum if way opens,
- lifting up ecological/economic linkages as way opens;
- Pursuing this concern with other Friends' organizations, including:
- promoting through collaboration with Friends Committee on National Legislation and Friends Committee on Unity with Nature a Friends witness on ecology and national policy,
- publishing a Quaker Eco-Bulletin,
- lifting up the concern expressed in the Yearly Meeting minute with Friends' schools as way opens;
- Pursuing this concern with other faith communities by
- using EWG "open meetings" to help create a Delaware Valley interfaith network,
- participating actively with the ongoing PA Council of Churches (PA CofC) and (NJ) Partners for Environmental Quality (PEQ) inter-faith global warming campaigns,
- participating actively in the National Religious partnership for the Environment through the project leader's membership in the National Council of Churches' Eco-Justice Working Group and its task forces on public policy and climate change, and EWG members' participation in NCC eco-justice conferences.
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