Its’ warm up there in the Midwest

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Today from Margaret Swedish:
I have a brief opportunity to post today, and there is so much to talk about. For one thing, it got a bit warm up there in the upper Midwest — low to mid 80s in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Yikes! I’m from there. This isn’t […]

Gore brings our ‘planetary emergency’ to Congress

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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Well, the Al Gore Global Warming Road Show stormed through the halls of Congress yesterday, and great theater it was. I know I particularly enjoyed the scene played out in the Senate as Sen. Barbara Boxer, noted for her green credentials, sat next to the former chair of […]

Rivers in grave trouble

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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Want to read something really sad? Probably not, but here’s a link to an article from WWF about their new report on the world’s rivers. They’re in trouble, grave, grave trouble.
You can download a PDF file of the report from their website.
I have posted about this before, […]

New Hampshire residents want action on climate change

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Today from Margaret Swedish:
Despite the resistance at the federal level for policy changes to address climate change, much is happening at the local and state level that gives reason for hope. If the government won’t do it, well then, let’s remind government leaders just who it is they work for.
In California, […]

‘The stakes are as high as they can get…’

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Today from Margaret Swedish:
I like to mention particularly good books that I’m reading, and I have just begun a fascinating, if sobering, one — The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, by Thomas Homer-Dixon. Homer-Dixon is director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and […]

The growing oil crunch: your life is in whose hands?

The power of the global oil industry has shifted from the big US and European corporations to ’seven sisters’ in Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Malaysia with enormous consequences for the politics and economies of the world.

The moral question - in stark terms

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Today from Margaret Swedish:
I mentioned the other day that I was reading The Body of God by Sallie McFague. Yesterday, I came upon this quote in one of her footnotes and want to share it with you as a reflection for the day.
She footnotes it from this passage:
…the evidence of disproportionate […]

Replacing one Earth-destroying fuel with another: the false promise of ethanol, one more time

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Today from Margaret Swedish:
[WARNING: This is a long post, but Bush and Lula made me do it!]
Well, Presidents Bush and Lula of Brazil once again put ethanol on the front pages and lead stories in the news media. So let’s take the opportunity to look one more time at why humungous […]

What gave me hope this morning

A woodpecker in Takoma Park, Maryland, brought delight to a group of people this morning. Birds give delight but are species endangered by global warming and overdevelopment.

This war is for oil - the escalation is all about the oil

The war in Iraq, the Bush war escalation, is about securing access to Iraq’s oil for the US oil industry.

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