Posted September 4th, 2006 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope
Just wanted to add this reflection to the previous post. It comes from Jonas Salk, and I found it in an article by Elisabet Sahtouris on her web site:
I now see that the major shift in human evolution is from behaving like an animal struggling to survive to behaving like an animal choosing [...]
Tags: deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, inspiration and reflection
Posted September 4th, 2006 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Happy Labor Day — except it is not so happy for the worker, the wage-worker, that is, whose ability to support her/himself continues to erode.
It will not help the ecology of this planet to have more and more workers slipping into poverty and un- or under-employment. Degradation of the human [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, environmental disasters, fossil fuel dependency, justice
Posted September 1st, 2006 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
As thousands upon thousands of US citizens head to our national parks this weekend, I wanted to be sure that readers do not miss this rare bit of good news from the Bush administration.
After much debate regarding its over-arching philosophy, and a whole lot of pressure from the recreational business industry (the [...]
Tags: consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope