Quaker progress on sustainability
Steps towards becoming a low-carbon community
Two out of every five Quaker Meetings have measured their carbon footprint and are ready to reduce it. The news was warmly welcomed on Saturday by Jamie Wrench of the Minute 36 Commitment Group. The group is named after a minute of Yearly Meeting 2011, when British Quakers resolved to become a ‘low-carbon community’.
It was agreed that each Meeting should measure its environmental impact to establish a ‘baseline of current witness’. Jamie said he was impressed by the response rate.
He added: ‘In the majority of cases, these returns appear to have been completed as the result of a collective exercise, rather than just one or two Friends working on their own’.
Jamie thanked staff at Friends House for designing both a Meeting check-up exercise and a climate impact calculator.
