Minute 36

John Gray believes the idea of community is crucial in living the commitment

Working in a community garden is one way of working towards Minute 36 | Photo: Photo: d-olwen-dee / flickr CC

For me the greatest challenge and opportunity in the Minute 36 Commitment are not the aspirations to sustainability or low-carbon, but rather that we aspire to these things as a community.   Even as the Yearly Meeting 2011 was in session, it was clear that for some Friends the aspects of targets and accountability were problematic and, for some, the words baselines and frameworks were in themselves contradictory to the concept of community.

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