Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Yesterday, we reflected on the ravages of mountaintop removal for coal extraction. Today, I was going over some old emails from various organizations I subscribe to, and I found this moving and enraging talk by Clayton Thomas-Muller, member of the Cree nation in northern Canada, entitled, Stopping the Energy [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
President George Bush and his coal company cronies hate mountains, I guess. They especially hate the inconvenience of mountains that sit annoyingly on top of coal seams. They especially hate Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, Kentucky, and parts of Virginia, rich in coal as they are.
Sen. Byrd hates [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Well, despite the global warming deniers, there are measures of what is going out there as temperatures rise, and those who do the measuring simply report the impacts of climate change as the daily news that it already is.
And so this morning’s front page article in the Washington Post, In [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Skimming through the Washington Post today, I came upon two very different articles that say something very important about two very different ways to approach the coming crises — the crisis of global climate change and the fossil fuel energy crunch.
Fossil fuels are the major sources of greenhouse gases that [...]