‘The era of less…’
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Sometimes I just want to share things that can get us thinking — no, not thinking. We need to get more out of our heads and into our hearts, start really believing both in our predicament and what we need to do to get out of it. This is […]
Working with corporations to embrace ‘environmentally friendly practices’
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
May seem like baby steps that will take too long, but every little bit helps, right? The group, Environmental Defense, has a corporate partnership program that works with businesses to come up with ways to reduce some of their environmentally damaging practices.
Today’s NY Times has an interview by William Holstein […]
Greenland ice sheet melting faster than expected
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Some more bad news today regarding the Greenland ice sheet. New studies, reported yesterday in Science, show that it is melting faster than expected, that it is no doubt due to global warming, and that the ocean levels will also rise more quickly as a result. This melt of […]
Change, as usual, bubbles up from below
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
One of the many things I learned over 25 years of Central America solidarity work is that real change almost never comes from above. Those at the top of the social, economic, and politcal pyramids tend to reinforce the status quo — after all, they are the ones who […]
The courtship between McDonald’s and Hummers
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Okay, this does not foster ecological hope. McDonald’s has become a promoter of the Hummer just at a time when, for the sake of the earth, some of us are trying to make them socially unacceptable — as bad as lighting up a cigarette in an enclosed room.
Seems McDonald’s […]
How politics corrupts science
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Unions representing scientists working with the currently inaccurately named Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) charge that the agency is deliberately corrupting the science aimed at protecting consumers from toxic substances. Here’s a link for more info.
Into such hands, politicians who care more about hiding truth and protecting corporate interests than in protecting […]
‘True energy security’ lies in reduced demand
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
“…if Americans had started a 10-year phase-in of 40-mile-a-gallon driving standards in 2001, they would already be saving 267 million barrels of oil a year. That’s nearly twice the amount produced annually at the Prudhoe Bay field.”
So write NY Times editors in an editorial today – their response to […]
One protest against that second home
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I will confess to not being a big John Tierney fan, one of the NY Times op-ed writers. He certainly has not exactly been a big booster for the earth and its limits, nor a particular friend to environmentalists. He is libertarian by background, rather arrogantly so, and a proponent […]
Score one for the Amazon
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
We get a lot of bad news, so it’s important to report the goods news. International pressure has been building to get Brazil to take action to stop the destruction of the Amazon rainforest – which because of illegal logging, development, and drought is near the point-of-no-return, of death
One of […]
War’s terrible ecological toll
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The new war in the Middle East claims lives, infrastructure, the social frabric of many communities. It leaves lasting damage from all of that, and some of the more lasting damage is that being done to the environment. Few things degrade the earth more quickly than war, making it even harder to recoup […]
