Fall in love again with the Earth
Ecological hope depends upon reconnecting with Nature, falling in love again with the Earth of which we are a part.
There’ll be a change in the weather…
Extreme weather will become more common and more dangerous as the atmosphere warms.
Meanwhile, while we were going into debt and watching ‘American Idol’…
U.S. hegemony is waning. We have entered a new world in which we are but one among many players. Foreign interests are buying stakes in the US economy as our debt grows and the dollar falls. As US influence wanes, we must attain a new attitude of national humility and international cooperation.
Eating meat is destroying the planet
Industrial livestock production is contributing significantly to global warming and climate change, deforestation, pollution of water and soil, and the deterioration of human health.
More sprouts
Seeds of ecological hope are sprouting among the many groups across the country meeting to learn and discuss together the new cosmology — and then to take a new kind of action.
Ecological hope sprouting all over the place
Ecological hope is manifested in the thousands of initiatives from grassroots groups, religious groups, and individuals who are witnessing the need for dramatic action to address global warming and climate change.
Living beyond our means
We are living beyond the earth’s capacity to carry us with our levels of consumption and waste. The economic crisis should be a time for us to ponder how to get out of the trap of a consumer economy to one the earth can sustain.
What is wrong with us
Our consumer ways and abuse of the Earth are fating us towards a terrible future.
Alarms bells at the poles — time to wake up
New research published in Nature Geoscience on January 13, 2008, shows rapid melting of Antarctica ice sheet, raising fears of more rapid and deadly ocean level rise over the next century.
Early year reflections on our planetary crisis
We have a planetary crisis and this year’s elections may be our last best hope to choose political leaders that can help save the planet by dealing with the crisis honestly and forthrightly.
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