Driving ourselves sick
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I’m not sure how much ecological hope I was emitting yesterday. The traffic in the DC area has become so bad that one wonders where this is headed. I try to avoid commuter traffic like the plague, but the past few days, with some family in town, I was […]
Supreme Court to rule on carbon emissions
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today form Margaret Swedish:
The sun is shining in the DC area this morning. We finally have a chance to dry out from our record-breaking rainfall. The place is saturated, wet, steamy, muddy.
No single weather event tells us anything about global warming and climate change, but they can give us an indication of […]
Climate may be changing ‘abruptly’
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I try, I try to focus on ecological hope. I know this blog offers a lot of bad news, but the hope is that it contributes to an awakening about our predicament.
This quote from an article in today’s Washington Post:
“There are thresholds in the system, there is the risk […]
It’s been raining in DC…
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Missed posting today. Crazy day around here. The DC area is a mess. We are approaching 13 inches of rain in the month of June, much of that in the past 3-4 days. Just heard one of our local meteorologists say that in his 28 years reporting weather in […]
Friedman, ethanol, and more
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
It’s raining like the dickens here in Maryland, waves of rain — which we needed, but really, let’s not overdo it, weather gods, okay?
Anyway, because of a phone call, I missed the last 15 minutes of Thomas Friedman’s “Addicted to Oil” program on Discovery last night. However, I thought […]
The greening of Thomas Friedman
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
What’s gotten into that great champion of capitalism and the global corporate culture, Thomas Friedman? He’s all over the place these days talking doom and gloom about global warming and climate change, along with the looming crisis around peak oil and our dependency on fossil fuels. The guy is getting […]
Expose Exxon/Mobil
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Rather enjoyed this little film. Laugh until you cry — then take action!
Bad news on global warming keeps piling up
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
What will the naysayers say now? As if the previous near consensus on global warming was not enough, now the US's own National Academy of Sciences has issued a report from a new study indicating that the earth is warmer than it has been in more than four centuries, and perhaps […]
Will Earth become like Venus?
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
This is the concern expressed yesterday by one of the world's leading cosmologists, Stephen Hawking. The comment was made during a visit to China to attend an international conference on the controversial string theory, a school of thought among some physicists seeking a unifying scientific theory of the unverse.
During […]
Skewed tax policies encourage gas guzzlers
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
This is crazy! Check out this article from the Business Section of today's NY Times. It is a perfect example of what is all wrong with the priorities of the Bush administration as we face the immediate need to reduce our oil consumption and switch to alternative, earth-friendly fuels.
