Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
[I GO TO ST. LOUIS THIS WEEK FOR A COUPLE OF SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, SO THIS WILL BE MY ONLY POST UNTIL MONDAY. THANKS FOR VISITING.]
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Hope we all had a little quiet time to think about those things for which we ought to be grateful [...]
Tags: black friday, cultural pathology, ecological crisis, ecological hope, meaning of being human, recession
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
This week we give thanks for the gifts of life, the generosity of our Planet Earth, which has provided us such abundance — flowing waters, rich soils, air to breathe, diversity of life, and the experience, uniquely human, of beauty.
All of this now endangered by this one conscious species, Homo [...]
Tags: earth spirituality, ecological hope, gratitude, human solidarity, prodigal son, thanksgiving
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
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Many people are talking about how the new administration coming to Washington in January presents a real opportunity to gets some things done. Yesterday saw a real positive sign in the ousting of Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) from [...]
Tags: balance of life, bottled water, bounty of earth, ecological hope, energy policy, industrial livestock farming, reinvent human, Rep. Henry Waxman, Rep. John Dingell, sustainability, thanksgiving
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Can you say the headline with an Aussie accent? The quote comes from Michael (??? couldn’t make out the last name), one of many people being interviewed this week on the Today Show’s week-long series, Ends of the Earth. Michael is a lawyer in Australia who has taken up the [...]
Tags: blue hole, climate change, ecological overshoot, ends of the earth, fabian cousteau, living beyond the end of the world, melting glaciers, Mt. Kilimanjaro, planetary crisis, today show, toxic waste