Today’s fright: the news just gets scarier and scarier
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
It’s Halloween, but who needs the extra fright these days? We have plenty to frighten us, and I, for one, am unnerved by what’s in the print media right now. As recently as a year ago, heck, even a few months ago, we could complain that the mainstream media, […]
Sacred Earth: people of faith take on mountain-topping
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
The NY Times had a quite good article on Saturday about how people of faith in Appalachia are discovering the extent to which the mountains are being ravaged by coal companies through the controversial practice of mountain-topping.
We have addressed this issue before in this blog. Mountain-topping involves blasting away […]
New books
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Just want blog visitors to know that I have posted new reviews on my ‘Books I’ve Been Reading’ page and added them to my list of ‘Books/publications of note.’ I am always happy to pass on to others information on the books that I find especially significant as we […]
Something to do this weekend
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Okay, after today’s earlier post, here is something fun to do this weekend — take your ecological footprint quiz. You can do this by clicking here. It is brought to you by the Earth Day Network. I found it by way of the Global Footprint Network, which also […]
Think, just think, about how we are living
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Think, yes, stop and think. Think about what is going on in this natural world right now, starting right here in the US. We already live in an altered world and there is no going back now to the old normal. We are going to have to get used […]
Friedman: west should unite around going green
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Thomas Friedman really gets it now. In his column today, he calls for the Western allies to unite around the energy and climate change crisis the way it once did around the “Red Scare.” I personally prefer the analogy of the US commitment to go to the moon back in […]
The US response to global warming - yawn…
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
The article that I link to below was sent by a colleague earlier this month. It is from the marvelous and entertaining Grist blog. Grist covers environmental news with commentary that is often satirical and ironic, will sometimes make you weep, groan, and giggle at the same time.
Anyway, with all the […]
Some print news companies start thinking about their carbon footprint
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Just a quick additional post today. A little note of hope, this time from the print media. Some of the companies that produce the millions of pages of newsprint and magazine paper that are read daily and then discarded are beginning to think about what they are doing — the […]
What a melting glacier means to one Swiss village
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
With all the bad news about global warming and climate change, we can get dizzy with the large scale of the changes. The Arctic Ocean is melting, the Greenland ice sheet is melting, all the glaciers of the world are melting, ocean levels are rising threatening to flood coastal cities, […]
Iceland resumes whale hunting
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Eg brought this to my attention with a comment on my contact page. Despite fierce international opposition, Iceland has resumed commercial whale hunting. In doing so, the country has defied a ban that has been in place since the 1980s.
They are being cheered on by Japan and Norway who […]
