Eugene Friends Meeting

Eugene Friends Meeting

of the Religious Society of Friends ("Quakers")

Archive for January 2025

Reality Check

A slogan on a 350 Eugene shirt that I have says: The Active Hope process is to first ground yourself in reality, and then get inspired to take action. The reality is that carbon pollution from fossil fuels is warming our planet and throwing natural systems out of balance. The results are severe fires, catastrophic storms, rising seas… (read more)

A Plan for Active Hope

None of us know what the future holds – what movements might rise up; what a big corporation may suddenly decide to do; what planetary shifts might still occur. But as environmental journalist Arno Kopecky writes in his book “The Environmentalist’s Dilemma”: We are “living on borrowed time. The worst is yet to come.” In a… (read more)