August 25, 2010 – 2:01 pm by suzannei
Tagged international
Staff from the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva report
The forthcoming Millenium Development Goal Review Summit has prompted an enormous amount of activity by groups and governments around the world. Mostly missing from this, however, has been attention to armed violence – a key factor that is undermining MDG progress. Some 740,000 men, women and [...]
August 25, 2010 – 1:41 pm by suzannei
Tagged green
Martin Large (Nailsworth LM) describes how Community Land Trusts are bringing social, cultural, economic and other benefits across the UK.
Securing affordable and open access to land is a live issue here in Stroud. Our local Community Land Trust (CLT), Gloucestershire Land for People has just announced a partnership with Kevin McLeod, presenter of Grand Designs [...]
June 4, 2010 – 4:10 pm by Jo Poole
Tagged Equality Trust, Richard Wilkinson, Spirit Level
Friday 9th July at 7.30 for 8pm at Jordans Quaker Meeting House HP9 2SN
Tickets (£10) from Cáit Gould on 01494 876594 email: office@newjordans.org
http://www.jordans-quakers.org.uk/
April 26, 2010 – 9:02 pm by cyn
At last this last week we got a vague glimpse of the ‘elephant in the room’ whose overpowering influence we have all felt for the last how many years, though it remained unnamed - the IMF! And on the same day as the IMF announced they were proposing taxes on banks – just like they decided more [...]
April 26, 2010 – 9:19 am by Flying Stag
In this contribution, I refer in particular to the posting by Dave Milner on 9-2-2010 on the thread ‘Zero Growth Economy – A New Paradigm’.
The recent Channel 4 series “Beautiful Minds” has brilliantly demonstrated the value of original thought which spans the boundaries of the recognised academic disciplines, and which indeed does not acknowledge that [...]
April 8, 2010 – 12:59 pm by Peter Wrigley
Tagged Peter Wrigley
This is my first entry into Quakernomics: indeed my first attempt at any sort of “blog” so I am not really sure of the form. Am I supposed to follow up on someone else’s comment? If not, how do I introduce a new one? Below is a space for a “tag”? What on earth is [...]
January 12, 2010 – 7:24 pm by Jo Poole
This is as drafted by the Quakers & Business Group. It is availiable to download from our website in French, German, Portugese, Mandarin, Russian and Spanish. It is also being translated into Urdu.
The Quakers and Business Group
Statement of Business Principles
1. Truth and Integrity
One name for the Society of Friends called Quakers is ‘The Religious Society [...]
December 21, 2009 – 3:09 pm by cyn
Tagged climate, Copenhagen
I didn’t believe in the ‘invisible hand of the market’, but after Copenhagen I am beginning to wonder! People across the world told their governments they wanted action on climate change, yet when the leaders of governments met together it was not the voice of the people that was heard but the interests of corporate [...]
November 3, 2009 – 10:48 am by matthews
There is nothing positive in the economic and environmental catastrophe that will shortly over take the world and I am becoming a little irritated with people telling me to think positive. It sometimes feels like we are in the Life of Brian.
Telling people who are about to lose their livelihoods and homes and in many [...]
