June 17, 2013 – 10:26 am by pregelous
Can you assist with any leads or tips on what to read up on FEc?
June 10, 2013 – 10:39 am by JeremiahJosey
Here’s a blog I made recently about the something I read about shale oil. http://jeremiahjosey.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/is-the-us-oil-sector-in-denial/
May 28, 2013 – 5:32 pm by Symon
Issue 3 of Earth & Economy is now out! It’s a chance to explore issues of faith, money, justice and sustainability. Every issue is free, so please click to sign up for a paper copy or an email version. There are three issues per year. Alternatively, you can read the articles from the latest issue here on [...]
May 23, 2013 – 1:49 pm by Symon
Friends House Restaurant has been awarded the title of “London Sustainable Restaurant of the Year” by the Sustainable Restaurant Association. It was awarded the prize in February for offering food that reflects its Quaker values, using fairly traded, local, organic, free range and sustainable products. Friends House Restaurant has two meat-free days each week – [...]
December 10, 2012 – 1:13 pm by John Schmid
At BYM 2012 Friends decided to ‘stand in the light as they wait to discover what form a “good economy” will take’ (to quote from a report in The Friend). I believe that our waiting is already at an end because the proposals of Silvio Gesell hold the answer. For the best part of a [...]
May 30, 2012 – 1:06 pm by EconomyRoland
A case study shows things done well, things done not so well and things left undone. It can be read as inspiring and encouraging at the cost of unrealistic pompous arrogance or as an honest account at the cost of being thought stupid. At the risk of both these readings, I offer my tale. When [...]
May 30, 2012 – 12:59 pm by EconomyRoland
I attended two of the QPSW Economics workshops. That they were well attended, and attended by so many well-known Friends indicated the wide-spread concern felt by Friends at the present time. I share this concern in part because as a business person and Quaker warden I am affected by the banking crisis but also because [...]
May 28, 2012 – 9:01 am by gillwestcott
Tagged Alternative Economics, BYM, Justice
Economic Justice, and a New Economy were the focus of two sessions of Britain Yearly Meeting this weekend. David Cadman urged that “the economy” is not an absolute, independent of values and ideology. (cf Adrian Beacroft’s assertion that critics of his proposed relaxation of employment law were coming from ideology and not economics!) Growth does [...]
May 28, 2012 – 8:56 am by gillwestcott
Tagged Alternative Economics, BYM 2012, What can we do
The special interest group on an alternative economy was arranged by the ‘Economics, Sustainability and Peace’ committee of QPSW. It had felt important to imagine what an alternative economy might look like, and what policies and actions would contribute to its arrival. I suggested that a ‘good economy’ might well be called a democratic economy: [...]
May 25, 2012 – 1:59 pm by suzannei
Yearly Meeting sessions 2 and 3 (Saturday) are on the theme of economic justice and sustainability. There are also several workshops and special interest meetings where Friends can explore these issues further. These sessions, being run by Quaker Peace & Social Witness or other parts of the centrally managed work, may be of particular interest [...]
