EARTHKEEPING NEWS A NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHRISTIANITY AND ECOLOGY Volume Ten, Number Two January/February 2001 VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY STUDY LEADS TO GROUP ACTIVISM The Community Concerns Group of the Wilmington, Ohio, Friends Meeting over the past year and a half has moved from studying about voluntary simplicity and sustainable community, to doing something about it. Twelve to sixteen persons have met every 2 weeks to discuss chapters in A Course On Voluntary Simplicity from Northwest Earth Institute, Portland OR, and continued discussions using their book Sustainable Communities as a study guide. They found that studying the issues is not enough. The Group now confronts collectively those community issues that have before concerned only individual members of the Meeting. They are now cooperating with other groups dealing with local environmental concerns, such as protecting land from industrial, commercial and housing development, and putting in place community-wide recycling. From Neil Snarr, Ph.D., Director International Education, Wilmington College, Wilmington OH 45177; neil_snarr@wilmington.edu. See also the story by Neil Snarr on p.6 of BeFriending Creation, Nov./Dec. 2000. Home     Table of Contents