The sad story of my Chesapeake Bay
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I have written before about the need to change how we think about development, to change a mentality that says we should be able to live wherever we want, and nature be damned. We want our pretty views, our second homes, our get-aways. Nature? Living in balance? Limits on […]
“We are going dirtier.”
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The headline of this post comes from a Rice University energy expert. I found it in yesterday’s Daily Grist, a favorite environmental news source. It’s how this person understands the implications of Bush’s woeful proposals on energy made in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. They also quote […]
Lack of funding for renewable energy research exposes Bush priorities
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
So we blogged yesterday about the failure of Bush’s State of the Union speech to address global warming, resulting climate change, and our economic dependence on Earth-destroying fossil fuels with anything truly meaningful.
The facts speak for themselves, and I found a bushel load of facts in this morning’s NY […]
So, Bush on climate change, sort of
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
So what did you think? I mean, besides the fact that this was one of the most passionless State of the Union speeches I have ever heard — until he finally got to Iraq…
Did you find much ecological hope there?
We didn’t — although I guess we have to acknowledge […]
Preview to State of the Union address
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
One of the more hopeful signs regarding global warming is how quickly the debate has become front and center before the US public and the political culture. Credit to Al Gore and the popularity of his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. But also credit to all those environmental groups and […]
Business, environmental groups steal some Bush thunder
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Today, a coalition of business and environmental groups will descend on Washington to promote their call for mandatory caps on carbon emissions, including a cap-and-trade program, as first steps to address our global warming/climate change crisis.
The US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) issued a press statement on Friday laying out their […]
Youth movement on climate change
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Maybe the youth can save us. Maybe they can wake us up. Just found this site for the Campus Climate Challenge, including a call for action on campuses across the country beginning at the end of the month.
What is the challenge? To get their high schools and colleges to […]
Extreme weather is our future
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Last night I was telling friends that one of the problems with dealing with global warming and resource depletion is that these are not issues that, after years of struggle and good political work (like the civil rights struggle, for example), you finally get people to take seriously, deal with, […]
Democrats raise profile on climate change
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
It was our hope that a new majority in Congress would change the political profile on the crisis of climate change. That hope appears to be warranted now in the House where the new Speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, has proposed the creation of a new Select Committee on Energy […]
Exponential growth in air travel adds to global warming fears
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
We don’t want to get out of our cars, much less give them up all together. And we sure don’t want to cut back on all that air travel that takes us to exotic places, warm beach or cold ski vacations, international conferences (on things like, oh, say, global […]
