Bad news from NASA on the Greenland ice sheet
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
The Greenland ice sheet is being watched closely because of its high sensitivity to global warming and the consequent climate change. The massive sheet contains billions and billions of gallons of fresh water and the melting will cause this water to flow directly into the salty ocean waters, threatening […]
In Melbourne, Catholics get global warming warning
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
We have been hearing lately that some in the religious world are beginning to appreciate the threat of global warming and climate change to ‘civilization.’ As ecosytems begin to break down, as drought spreads through much of the food-producing parts of the world (like our US southwest, where only […]
A new Earth vision
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Missed a day — time got away from me yesterday. But good things are happening with this project, Spirituality and Ecological Hope. I will be working with someone on the new website, which I hope to have up and running sometime in November. We had a great meeting and […]
Humans must become agents of Gaia’s healing
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
I mentioned yesterday that I attended a conference this past weekend, Gaia Theory: Model and Metaphor for the 21st Century. The last speaker was Dr. Donald Aitken, Principal of Donald Aitken Associates, founder of the Department of Environmental Studies at San Jose University, former staff research physicist and astrophysicist […]
Gaia Theory conference — a bit of sharing
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
It was a privilege this past weekend to participate in a conference at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, entitled: Gaia Theory, Model and Metaphor for the 21st Century. It was organized by the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority and sponsored by a long list of organizations.
This was a […]
Kyoto talks — too little, too late
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
You know, friends, if you are a visitor to this blog, if you have seen Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, if you have viewed videos, visited web sites, read news articles about the ecological crisis into which we are plunging rapidly, then you also appreciate how little time we […]
Ontario residents paid to generate their own power
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Now here is a truly innovative program that could become a model, if we had the social will to make it so. From this morning’s Washington Post:
Canada’s Ontario province has ordered local utility companies to pay homeowners or businesses for any electricity they generate from small solar, wind, water […]
Shocking death toll in Iraq
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
This is a blog about the challenge of our ecological crisis to US society, and later I will post about some more alarming news in that regard. But I am so shaken by the news this morning about the true extent of mortality in Iraq since the US invasion […]
more on the economics of ethanol, a.k.a. ‘burning food’
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
After yesterday’s post on Archer Daniels Midland and the corn-based ethanol scam, I thought I’d look around for more info on the government program to subsidize this very destructive biofuel.
Interestingly, this is an issue that joins together environmentalists, family farmers, and right-wing free enterprise groups that either loathe this form […]
Ethanol boon to US mega-corporation
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
I believe this firmly — if it is left to the profit motives of huge corporations, the path the US trods towards new fuels for your gas tank is going to be very destructive.
So here is an instructive piece from the Sunday NY Times. It is about Archer Daniels […]
