Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Friends Environmental Working Group and its predecessors (1975-1998)
Scope and Contents
Records of the Working Group on Nuclear Energy, the Working Group on Energy, the Working Group on Stewardship of the Environment, and the Friend’s Environmental Working Group, all of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1977-1992.
Organization:
- Series 1. Predecessor Committee Records
- Series 2. Minutes
- Series 3. Correspondence
- Series 4. Clerks’ Files
- Series 5. Financial Papers
- Series 6. Events
- Series 7. Publicity
- Series 8. Other groups
- Series 9. Photographs
- Series 10. Miscellaneous
Dates
- Creation: 1975-1994
Creator
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Friends Working Group on the Environment (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to the Repositories. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
Biographical / Historical
The Friend’s Working Group on the Environment of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was originally formed at the 1975 Yearly Meeting as the Working Group on Nuclear Energy to address a concern on nuclear power plant legislation. At the 1977 Yearly Meeting, the group recommended that it be continued under the name of Working Group on Energy, and its focus shifted from the debate on nuclear power to conservation and consciousness of energy among Friends. In 1980 the group reported irresolvable differences amongst its members on the issue of nuclear power, and seems to have stopped meeting from 1981 to 1983, at which point the concern of nuclear power was taken up by both the Special Peace Project and the New Call to Peacemaking. The Working Group on Stewardship of the Environment was created in 1984 and presented its mission to the 1985 Yearly Meeting as preserving God’s Creation through education and conservation. The group continued its work under various names, eventually becoming the Friend’s Environmental Working Group, through 1992.
Extent
1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Records of various Philadelphia Yearly Meeting groups concerned with energy and the environment, 1975-1994.
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
Subject
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Friends Working Group on the Environment (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Working Group on Energy (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Working Group on Nuclear Energy (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Working Group on Stewardship of the Environment (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Friends Working Group on the Environment (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Working Group on Energy (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Working Group on Nuclear Energy (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Working Group on Stewardship of the Environment (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Friends Environmental Working Group (Organization)
- Title
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Friends Environmental Working Group and its predecessors (1975-1998)
- Date
- 2004
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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