Environmental Concerns

The Environmental Concerns Committee provides information to the Meeting via forums and newsletters about environmental issues, encourages sustainable living, and advises the meeting about environmentally appropriate property matters.

We support an Earth restored, including: 1) action on global climate disruption and energy policy, 2) caring for the Earth, 3) sustainable population growth and consumption, and 4) environmental restoration and regeneration.

 
 
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quaker position on the environment

The LMM endorses the four Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) environmental priorities: 

  • Global Climate Disruption and Energy Policy

  • Caring for the Earth

  • Population and Consumption

  • Environmental Restoration and Regeneration

 
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ECC ENERGY Activities and Issues

  • Installed Solar Panels at Meeting (2013)

  • Switched to 100% renewable electricity sources for the Meetinghouse

  • Encourages use of renewable electricity sources for member/attender homes.

  • Prepares/distributes annually a listing of renewable electricity sources for homes

 
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Environmental education and action

Recent Forums include:

  • Creative Gardening with Native Plants

  • Recycling in Lancaster County *Learn More Here*

  • Groundhogs: Ecosystem Engineers

  • Mosquitoes: Management without Toxins

  • The Social Challenge of Global Warming

  • Quaker Panel on the Impact of Fracking in North Central PA

  • Paris Climate Change Conference

  • NOAA and Climate Change

  • Your Health and Climate Change

  • State of the Air Report for Lancaster County – American Lung Association

  • Eco Justice

Current Activities

  • First Day School (Sunday School): Leads children's and adult sessions on environmental themes

  • Advocates for regional clean water issues - Chesapeake Bay water quality and Lancaster County rivers and streams

  • Stays current on the Three Mile Island shutdown and nuclear waste storage

  • Prepares a list of ‘Environmental Actions for Quaker Households ‘ ( LED bulbs in the home, composting, home energy audits, healthy diets, recycling, and sourcing healthy foods )

 

This is just a sampling of ECC activities.

If environmental issues are of interest to you, please join us !