Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
If you’re paying attention to the news, you’ve seen reports from the Madeira Islands, Portugal – the massive floods, the torrential rains that caused torrents of water to wash away hillsides, homes, whole communities. This morning’s figures: 42 dead, 120 injured, many unaccounted for.
Then this morning, I read this, in [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Last year nearly 1 in every five people here in the US lacked the money at some point to buy food, according to a Gallup survey released in January carried out on behalf of the Food Research and Action Center.
One in every five. Think about that – in a country [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
…we westerners have lost our ancestral knowledge of how to survive on the Earth. — Chellis Glendinning
The more I delve into the underpinnings of our ecological crisis, the larger, deeper, more profound the picture becomes. Now I’m reading a book that takes me right back to the original alienation, the [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Bill and Margaret Swedish:
How do you like El Niño so far? Wild isn’t it, the volumes of water falling over this country, some of it in monumental snowstorms. El Niño comes and goes, and is part of what creates weather across the planet. But as the atmosphere and oceans warm, El [...]