Ecology

PeaceWorks KC advocates a safer and more livable world as we stand in opposition to the destructive forces threatening our Earth and its inhabitants. Among those forces are the climate crisis and war and its weapons.

What to do with radioactive waste?

While we were at DC days recently, lobbying with ANA, we took up what they called a "thorny conversation." What do we do with the radioactive waste we have already generated?

Emerging from spring transformation

Each of the leaves on this tree in our PeaceWorks logo are a new, budding effort in the ever-changing mission of anti-nuclear environmental advocacy.

Final climate warning

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said, "Our world needs climate action on all fronts--everything, everywhere, all at once."

Responding to climate crisis

The Step-by-Step Climate Response Course gives a guide to actions we can and should take to reverse the climate catastrophe we are facing.

Climate response course in KC offers hope for Earth

At the halfway point of a climate response course, I am engaged and inspired. I’ve been drinking in ideas of environmental leaders including Paul Hawkins, Joanna Macy, Dr. Riane Eisler, and Christiana Figuerez.

Book club to delve into Thích Nhất Hạnh’s The Art of Living

Starting in September, our book club, via zoom, will explore one of Thích Nhất Hạnh’s books with meditations on gratitude for our lives and our interconnectedness with the world.

‘We are thankful to our Mother the Earth’

Within the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, children recite the Thanksgiving Address, a river of words as old as the people themselves, known in the Onondaga language as “The Words That Come Before All Else.”

From “Trespassing” to “Rainy Daffodils”—April poems

A passel of poems by Ron Faust: “Trespassing,” crossing a line not irrelevant; “The Great Divide,” honoring a falsely accused senator; “On Earth Day,” walking the tender Earth; and “Rainy Daffodils.”

Song, sorrow, hope at heart of PeaceWorks’ Annual Meeting

“Blowin’ in the Wind” framed our sorrow about the war on Ukraine, with reflections and hope shared at the PeaceWorks Annual Meeting via Zoom.

Live Facebook event 2/17 features Potawatomi scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer

Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, of the Potawatomi Nation, will hold a Facebook event Thurs., Feb. 17, and you’re invited to a public showing in KC MO—free! She is the acclaimed author of the book, Braiding Sweetgrass.

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Community Organization Directory

Find our guide to local Kansas City-area peace, justice, environment, and human rights groups here.

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