Sustainability at Friends House
Joe Mugford reports on the "greening" of British Quakers' central offices
As regular readers of the Friend will be well aware, climate change is rapidly becoming one of the highest priorities for individual Friends and for Quaker organisations at all levels. So it was that staff from all the offices in Friends House (FH) gathered last week for a meeting on consolidating the environmental sustainability of the FH building itself, and using it as an emblem to the outside world of how the Quaker doctrine of simplicity can create practical and effective environmental action. FH’s aim is to reduce carbon emissions by twenty per cent by 2013, half of that in the course of next year as part of the ‘10-10’ initiative.
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