Fostering Ecological Hope Reflections on Culture and Meaning: Last week’s essay on the latest setback regarding mountaintop removal coal mining, ‘Unbearable Grief’, haunted me for days. Still does now that I call it up again. I think I am horrified not just by the blowing up of entire mountains, laying waste to natural beauty, to [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Reflections on Culture and Meaning: Read this before the next time you turn on your lights… I’ve been quiet on this site for the past couple of weeks. I’m working on my new book, trying to get a couple of projects anchored here in Milwaukee, and dealing with some illnesses in my [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Reflections on culture and meaning Are you enjoying the weather? We are going to be 35 degrees above normal today. Much of the country is experiencing record warmth. This is not one of those occasional Spring flings, a quick tease heralding the promise of warmer weather, followed by quick descent back to [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Reflections on Culture and Meaning A rather disturbing conjunction of headline and photo with this NY Times story: deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, after a brief respite because of the worst oil platform disaster ever, is back in high gear. But that’s a small portion of the story. The larger [...]