Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The weather news has been harsh all year long in many parts of our world. This country has seen some bad stuff, no? Floods, drought, tornadoes, scorching heat waves, wildfires. The other night, in anticipation of the cold front breaking the back of our heat wave, we had [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Friends, this is a busy week, too busy for a truly thoughtful post, yet my heart is heavy with many worries and fears. We really are right up against it now, this threshold I tried to describe in my book (see sidebar). We are at the moment when [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Tough to reconcile that headline with the mantra with which I begin each post – fostering ecological hope. The fact is, and I really believe this, that hope rests firmly on clarity of vision about our predicament. If we don’t see what’s wrong with the way we humans [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: It’s a bold move in today’s economy, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the German government are committed to bringing an end to nuclear energy in Germany. In an announcement yesterday, May 30, the government said it will close all its nuclear plants by 2022. The announcement follows [...]