TUESDAY, October 6, 2022 AT 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT Original Poetry and Song Event Hosted by poet Al Black Location: 120 Pisgah Church Road Columbia, SC 29203 Passionate poets and songwriters will present their original poems and songs followed by Open Mic. All ages are welcome. This event is sponsored by Columbia Friends Meeting.
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Green Growth and Degrowth
There will be First Day School available for Young Friends.During the Second Hour, Anne Burke will present ideas and suggestions on possible Personal Responses to Degrowth. 1. Review of definitions of Green Growth and Degrowth as presented in the debate 2. Review of Nate Hagens’s commentary 3. Personal steps to Degrowth 4. Community steps to Degrowth 5. …
Benevolent giving and nurturing
On September 18, we will have Meeting for Worship at 10:00, at the Meetinghouse and virtually. The zoom link is:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2934909472 The Second Hour will be a very important session on how we as a Meeting do benevolent giving and nurturing. Several of our regular and long-term recipients of benevolent giving, including both Members/Attenders of the Meeting…
Nuclear fuel plant gets new 40-year operating license
A nuclear fuel factory in South Carolina, Westinghouse, which supplies many of the nation’s atomic power plants, gained approval Monday from the federal government to operate another 40 years, despite a legacy of environmental and safety problems. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted Westinghouse Nuclear a long-anticipated license to continue operating during the next four…
Martha Schofield, Program
Friend Harold Finnegan of Darby Meeting in Pennsylvania has prepared a program about Martha Schofield, an ardent abolitionist and suffragist from PA who moved to Aiken and founded Schofield School during Reconstruction to educate freed slaves. Today its descendant operates as Schofield Middle School where many children have continued to further their education. Harold will cover the…
The Great Simplification
SIMPLIFICATION-the work of Nate Hagens presented to ColumbiaFriends Meeting, on August 21, 2022 by Alice M. Wald Nate Hagens does. He is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future. He holds a Master’s degree in Finance from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Natural Resources from the…
Become a Citizen Scientist
HIGHLIGHTING THREE MIDLANDS CITIZEN SCIENTISTS PROJECTS: NOAA’s Recent Urban Heatmapping Project DHEC’s Water Watch program Thriving Earth Exchange Water Monitoring at Congaree National Park YOU’LL ALSO LEARN: What citizen scientists do More about local projects that use citizen scientists Qualifications to serve How to volunteer And more! FREE, no pre-registration. Log-on to YouTube on Thursday,…
Cranes for Our Future
This weekend will mark 77 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Starting this Friday, we hope you will join the Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefectures, as well as a broad coalition of institutions and individuals, in demonstrating growing public support for a world without nuclear weapons – by sharing a paper crane on…
Quaker Minute June 5, 2022
As South Carolinians, we feel a special responsibility to speak out against theproduction of plutonium pits and Tritium Producing Burnable Absorber Rods (TPBARs)in our state. Plutonium pits would be produced at Savannah River Site (SRS) in Aiken,South Carolina, and TPBARs are currently produced at Wesdyne in the Westinghousefacility near Columbia, South Carolina. The plutonium pits…
Simple Gifts Presents: Poet, Randy Spencer & Songwriter, Josh McGill
Event by Al Black120 Pisgah Church, Columbia, SC 29203Duration: 2 hrPublic · Anyone on or off FacebookPoet, Randy Spencer brings his poetic voice to Friends Meeting House and songwriter, Josh McGill ( of the band Wombat Junction) will open the night with his insightful songs