Does the ‘New Year’ mean anything?
New year’s day - linear time means little to the natural world. Reconnecting our beings to the natural world can help us restore the true meaning of the human journey.
Peace on Earth, not war with Earth - a Christmas meditation
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
So much news to comment on, but I don’t want to do news right now. I want to do contemplation, I want to take a long walk on this chilly foggy day along Lake Michigan, to love the melting snow-cover, to cherish all that I love, all that […]
Corn ethanol fiasco, brought to you by Congress and agribusiness
Mandate for ethanol could cause grave harm to human beings and the planet, bringing about food shortages, high food prices, harm to the environment, all so that we can keep driving our cars.
“If you cannot lead…get out of the way.”
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Ooo, it got a little nasty over there in Bali. Folks around the world got a bit perturbed with our indomitable negotiating team.
Participants say they’ve never seen anything like it at a UN conference.
We were booed. We were booed roundly, loudly, by the international community.
It happened when, […]
At end of fifth warmest year since record-keeping, Bali climate conference approaches conclusion
United Nations climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, comes to end as report shows that 2007 will be the fifth warmest globally since record-keeping began.
The White House and Climate Change: in my old Catholic terms, this is mortal sin
NASA reports that the Arctic may be ice free by 2012, just five years from now The US remains the chief obstacle in climate change talks in Bali, representing a moral failure of grave proportions.
Al Gore: “…we have begun to wage war on the earth itself”
Al Gore and Rajendra Pachauri of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change receive Nobel Peace Prize with impassioned pleas to save the planet.
In Bali, US says it won’t be ‘roadblock, then becomes the usual roadblock
US rejects mandatory greenhouse gas emission reductions at climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia.
Bali conference: moral responsibility - a challenge from the islands
Pacific islands nations are threatened with disappearance because of global warming. The president of Kiribati asked the Bali conference for aid. He also asked industrial nations to take responsibility for the carbon emissions that created the crisis.
A word from the UN Secretary General: challenge for action on climate change
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appeals to the world to take action on climate change. The UN-sponsored climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia, continues.
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