Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Have you seen this commercial? This is Reality. I absolutely love this! Congratulations to the creators.
I just want to add that there will never, ever, be such a thing as ‘clean coal,’ even if ‘capturing and sequestering’ carbon dioxide emissions actually worked, even if we could bury all the CO2 [...]
Tags: appalachian voices, co2 emissions, coal river mountain watch, diry coal, ecological hope, ilovemountains.org, light in the darkness, ohio valley environmental coalition, winter solstice
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Well, as they say, the future is with the young. Depending on which young we are experiencing, that old saying can make us bash our heads against the wall — or infuse our life with hope, vigor, exuberance — and a memory of a lost zeal, battered and frayed during [...]
Tags: earth spirituality, ecological hope, great turning, hope is with youth, namaste
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Really, I don’t know how else to describe what he’s doing as he mercifully prepares to leave the White House. From drilling in fragile ecosystems to blowing up mountains to pushing policies that will increase pollution and noise in our public parks and forests…
I have wondered this for a long [...]
Tags: Appalachian Mountains, bush new rule on coal mining, dirty coal, earth spirituality, ecological ethics, mountaintopping
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