Columbia Resilience

The next meeting of Columbia Resilience will be Tuesday, January 17, at 7 pm.  It will be an online meeting to discuss the graphic attached below, entitled “Principles of Degrowth.”  One point of the discussion will be to envision how each principle could look in Columbia and the Midlands region, both in our personal lives…

Simple Gifts: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2022

Poets and Musicians will be at our Friends Meetinghouse Public welcome Simple Gifts is sponsored by and at the Friends Meeting House and is organized and hosted by Larry Rhu and Al Black. Location: 120 Pisgah Church Rd, Columbia, SC 29203-9351 Sponsored by Columbia Friends Meeting House

Second Hour Nov 20th: Greening Affordable Rental Properties

Please join the Midlands Group of the South Carolina Sierra Club and UofSC Public Health students November 20th at 11:30 am for a presentation on Greening Affordable Rental Properties! The hard-working people behind the Greening Affordable Rental Properties Project are currently focusing their efforts on sustainable living in Fairfield County. The team is taking steps…

Paths of Dissent: Veterans and U.S. Foreign Policymaking

QI co-founder and board chair Andrew Bacevich will lead a discussion with several veterans of the so-called Global War on Terror who will reflect on the implications of their military service — what it signified and how it changed them. How did their military service affect their outlook on citizenship, war, and America’s role in the…

Second Hour November 13th

The Second Hour will be our monthly Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business. Please join us to discuss and decide issues of great importance to our community. There will be First Day School available for Young Friends. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2934909472 Please join us for consideration of issues with great importance to our community.

Nuclear safety at Oconee Nuclear Station

Nuclear safety at Oconee Nuclear Station near Seneca SC November 15th , 20228:00 pm ET The November Sierra Club Wild Activist Grassroots Team  Call will be Tuesday,November 15 at 5:00pm PT, 6:00pm MT, 7:00pm CT, and 8:00pm ET.  First, Athan Manuel, DC Lands Director, will discuss thecurrent political scene in Washington, DC. Environmental lawyer Diane Curran, nuclear engineer…

FCNL Statement on Peace Testimony and the Ukraine

Quakers are a people who follow after peace, love and unity. Our peace testimony is ourwitness to the Truth as we experience it.Our testimony manifests as a cumulative set of actions, continually tested and added to overcenturies. These actions are diverse in form, but have been broadly united by: Refusal to kill, Relief of suffering,…

Savannah River Site Watch

Tom Clements’ organization, Savannah River Site Watch, proudly supported the big fundraising event on October 19, 2022 of the Transitions homeless shelter here in Columbia, SC. The event was held at the Columbia Museum of Art in downtown Cola. The “winter shelter,” which provides emergency overnight housing in the winter (when the forecast is below…