Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Today I want to share a reflection more than news and commentary. It is something I read this morning in the new book by the noted “geologian,” the monk, Thomas Berry, a pioneer in the emerging Earth Spirituality of our time. It comes from an essay, “Earth as Sacred Community,” [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
As we have noted before, we have a new opportunity in the US Congress. Representatives and Senators with fairly good track records on environmental and energy issues will be holding key hearings and setting an agenda to address global warming and the urgent need to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Okay, so this morning I pick up the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel at the front door where I am staying right now and am greeted with this blazing headline: 2007 may be hottest yet. Given the record warm years of recent decades, that’s saying something.
The prediction is a result of research by British [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
A few years back, when I began the megashift in my lifelong work from Central America and US foreign policy to our ecological crisis, it seemed obvious that one of our biggest challenges would be getting the “mainstream” of this society to give attention to this biggest issue of our generation. [...]