The Committee on the Environment facilitates and supports the Meeting's collective and individual concerns about the effect our human activities have on Earth's ecological balance, resources, and the well-being of life on our planet.
     The Committee studies the work and literature that has been developed in the fields of ecology, energy use, social change, global change due to human activities, and preservation of biodiversity.  It plans and coordinates events to help the Meeting understand these processes.  The Committee serves as a liaison between Meeting and other organizations working for the well-being of our planet.  The Committee works with the Meeting to explore the relationship between Quaker testimonies and environmental concerns, and to examine individual and corporate behavior in its relation to care for the environment.
     When courses of action seem desirable or necessary to be taken by Meeting as a whole, the Committee brings proposals to business meeting after due seasoning. (From the Meeting's Procedure Handbook)

UPCOMING EVENTS
Re-evaluation of carbon emissions by Meeting members
Presentations by Elisa Barbour and David Jaber on Sustainability and Policy
Presentation by Elisa Barbour on Habitat Preservation
Session on Reliability of Sources with Karen Street and another person

PAST ACTIVITIES
Questionnaire on energy use by Meeting members, with analysis by Karen Street
Display table of questionnaires to the community at the Green Expo 2004
Talks given by Professor John Harte of UC Berkeley and Stuart Cohen of the Transport and Land Use Coalition
Presentations and discussion on climate change by Karen Street, 2007
Distribution of compact fluorescent light bulbs, fall 2007
January 20th, 2008 from 1-3 p.m: What have we done? What more can we do?
     A discussion of committee and Meeting activities
     on environmental issues
Support for walk by Louis Cox and Ruah Swennerfeldt this spring
Preparation of summary report to be sent to Pacific Yearly Meeting