A spirituality of hope

Two paths are before us in our energy future — one leads to ecological destruction, the other is a path of hope, a path of alternative new energies, scaled down lifestyles, and a future on the planet for our children and their children’s children.

Engineering the Earth to death

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
When we speak about ecology, we speak of relationships. Over and over again we need to say this until we really ‘get it.’
We humans are not over and above Nature; we are not masters of Nature, much less the universe. We are not at the […]

“Demand is very strong. Supply is constrained. It’s as simple as that.”

Food prices are soaring because of rising energy costs, production of ethanol and biodiesel fuels, and growing demand. The result is a sharp increase in world hunger.

A World of Hurt 2

Record oil prices, the mortgage crisis, the falling dollar — the world of hurt deepens affecting everything in our lives.

Hate the trees

Developers rip up trees, suburbanites demand more pavement for their vehicles, the world demand for grain, for protein, is overshooting the capacity of the Earth to support our diets, and our excessive way of life in the U.S. adds to the crisis. We must being to downscale and live simply — with urgency.

A ‘frozen garden or Eden,’ or Noah’s ark — some folks seem to know we’re in trouble

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is open for business, burying deep in the earth the collective memory of human agriculture. It is another indication that some people know we are in real trouble.

Our bodies, too, are nature — to be respected

Animals abused, thrill-killing of wildlife, toxins in our food, air, and water — all point to the spiritual sickness of industrial society. Ecology means living within and healing the whole.

Ethanol is causing food scarcity and hunger: a moral quandary for our lives

Ethanol boom in United States is leading to a food scarcity crisis around the world.

Humans are ruining the oceans

Human activity is ruining the oceans.

The ecological lessons of Lake Mead

The water crisis in the West, represented by the imminent loss of Lake Mead as a water source for 22 million people, is a perfect example of how we have lived wrongly on the planet.

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