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Interior Department to give coal mining companies permission for vast destruction

Posted October 20th, 2008 in Blog, Featured 0 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Some news is just infuriating.  As we have posted many times in the past, in the hunger for coal to feed our energy consumption, President Bush just cannot seem to get enough of blowing up, tearing up, ripping up, and contaminating Nature.  And, as his presidency comes ever closer to [...]

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We’re melting, melting, melting….

Posted October 17th, 2008 in Blog, Featured 0 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Exceedingly bad news from the Arctic this week.  From the Washington Post yesterday, Report says Arctic temperatures at record highs:
“Autumn temperatures in the Arctic are at record levels, the Arctic Ocean is getting warmer and less salty as sea ice melts, and reindeer herds appear to be declining…”
Temperatures this autumn [...]

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Conversations around the table

Posted October 14th, 2008 in Blog, Featured 0 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Yesterday evening I had the pleasure of meeting two of our speakers for our conference this weekend here in Milwaukee: Michael Dowd, author of Thank God for Evolution, and his wife and partner, biologist Connie Barlow.  The conference is entitled, And God Said It was Good: Weaving Together Science and [...]

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Behind the crisis: an ethic of individualism and alienation

Posted October 9th, 2008 in Blog, Featured 0 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Sometimes when probing the newspapers, I run into something that jumps off the page at me, that reveals something about what is wrong with us, how we have gotten ourselves into multiple crises, both ecological and economic, until now we don’t have a clue how to get ourselves out of [...]

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