What are we doing to our children?
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
If we could see the crisis time from the perspective of the children, would that change things? If we project current trends into the next few decades, say to mid-century when there will be 2-3 billion more of us on an already over-stressed planet, you know, when our […]
Back in the fray
Back from California, the summer wildfires show us the impacts of climate change, insect infestations, and inappropriate development on what were once purely natural phenomenon. Too late to save us from all impacts, we must begin to appropriately adapt.
Time to reflect
Preparing for the Great Work of reinventing the human presence on the planet…
Learning our lessons the hard way
We are learning the hard way the lessons of our insatiable appetite for cheap oil and gas. We must learn to live differently on the planet, to live within real limits. Churches must begin to rise to the moral challenge presented by the end of cheap energy.
Lake Michigan — altered forever
Quagga mussels have destroyed the ecosystem of Lake Michigan. One horrible consequence is the annual cladophora algae bloom that is fouling beaches all along the lake shore.
