Selected Readings from QEW’s BeFriending Creation

Ruah Swennerfelt’s book review of Regeneration by Paul Hawken: “Regeneration offers an approach to climate change that weaves equity, justice, climate, and biodiversity, instead of focusing only on energy issues. The book was written with six basic frameworks for action, and the first is equity. Paul writes, ‘This comes first because it encompasses everything. All that needs to be done must be infused by equity.’” (quakerearthcare.org/book-review-of-paul-hawkens-regeneration-ending-the-climate-crisis-in-one-generation/)

Tom Small’s recent article Regeneration: A Matter of Life and Breath gives an overview of healthy soil, the disruptions caused by industrial agriculture, and brings it back to how we might all “Participate, as we are able, in the patterns, the relationships that involve the passing of the seasons, the rising and setting of the sun, and the breathing of forests.”  (quakerearthcare.org/regeneration-a-matter-of-life-and-breath/)

In Permaculture: The Art of Designing Beneficial Relationships, Carol Barta provides a brief introduction to Earth care, people care, and fair share, which lie at the heart of the ethics which permaculture has taught and practiced around the world for the past 45 years. (quakerearthcare.org/permaculture-the-art-of-designing-beneficial-relationships/)