Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [This will be my only post this week. Please share widely and pass the web address on to your colleagues, communities, and friends. We want to create a conversation here. We hope you, and they, will want to be a part of it. Your tax deductible donations are [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [This post is longer than usual but stuff I've been thinking about a lot lately. I hope you will take time to read it, comment, and share it with others. And then please consider a donation to keep this project moving along.] Are we really coming to the [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: As we wrote last time, changing a culture ain’t easy, but it needs to be done. While political leaders (or anti-leaders) continue pushing the agenda of economic growth to get us back on track to making the American Dream available to everyone – if they just work hard [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I’m reading Morris Berman’s, Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline. It’s a catchy title meant to entice readers to open the book. Part of what strikes me is the past tense. I would more likely write, Why America Is Failing, since we certainly have had our [...]
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