Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: NOAA has reported that, globally, the first 6 months of this year were the hottest Jan.-June period ever recorded. Arizonans are dealing with a deadly combination of high temps and high humidity (triple digit temps, dew points around 60), the mid-Atlantic is sweltering, many areas are dry as [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Back to posting for a while, and here we are with the big news still focused on the Gulf of Mexico. If you view the live BP stream on the Home page, you see this startling thing – no oil gushing, that steady eruption that has become iconic [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Well, friends, I’m going to be offline for about 9 days, time for reconnecting and replenishing. But I wanted to share some thoughts here and challenge us to do some radical new thinking about our predicament. Tomorrow ESPN will have a one hour special built around LeBron James’ [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: What does the 4th of July mean now? It’s an old story – revolution against the British monarchy, landholding white men asserting their rights to independence from the Crown, the Declaration of Independence, Washington crossing the Delaware, violating a Christmas truce to take advantage of unsuspecting drunken British [...]