One year closes - a new one presents itself
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
To all readers of this blog, friends of the Earth, I wish you renewal of hope and inspiration as we close one year and begin another. Of course, nothing is opened and closed by these dates, artifically created by us so that we could organize our world and communities, […]
Heard about the Canadian ice shelf?
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I imagine most of you have heard by now about the massive chunk of ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic that broke off and floated out to sea. It happened in 2005 but was just recently documented by satellite photos. Family members first emailed the story to me, and now […]
Insurance industry seeing the grim future
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
We have made note of this before — the insurance industry is on to global warming. After the devastating ‘natural’ disasters of 2004 and 2005, they are beginning to realize what climate change, meaning far more severe weather events, will mean for their industry, for the ol’ bottom line. […]
Island nation vanishes
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
As we come to the end of 2006, we pass a milestone — the first island nation has disappeared under the rising seas. This has been a major concern of climate scientists who have been trying to warn us about how global warming is causing the seas to rise, […]
Peace to the entire earth community in this holiday season
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Sorry for the long unannounced break in posting. The holidays piled up, along with some things not planned for — you know how it is. I am posting a bit sporadically over this holiday week, so please bear with me.
Here is one of the thoughts that plagued my holidays: […]
It’s our relationship with and within the natural world that needs to change
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Industrial society took that Old Testament charge to dominate and subdue nature to the nth degree, forcing nature to submit to the will of Man [sic] as we westerners, fueled by the ideological mix of that religiosity and capitalist profit-seeking economics, just carved our way through the natural world, manipulating, […]
Is global warming a human rights violation?
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
This question will take on increasing importance as the impacts of global warming manifest in ever starker fashion now and in coming generations. If global warming, caused in large measure by the industrial and post-industrial societies, endangers and even destroys cultures that are not responsible for the warming, are […]
I wasn’t kidding about the Alps
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
After last night’s post about what global warming is doing to the winter ski industry, I picked up this morning’s NY Times and found this article, aptly entitled “Global Warming Poses Threat to Ski Resorts in the Alps,” as if global warming is a real thing, actual news to […]
Signs of an unhealthy society
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
If we are going to be able to address our ecological crisis, we are going to have to make ourselves well — because we are not a healthy society.
I had to smile at this Letter to the Editor in today’s NY Times, responding to an earlier article about the […]
Wall Street discovers climate change risk
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
When Wall Street speaks, lots of people listen. A conference of the Investor Network on Climate Risk was held in Chicago a week ago, and it appears that at least some in the US business community are beginning to realize the disaster that looms before them because of climate change.
The consensus […]
