Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: There is so much disturbing news that I could write a very long essay just trying to sum it all up. Scientists have found a direct relation between the Moscow heatwave and drought and the Pakistan floods. Ames IA is under water, worst flooding in the city’s history, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: We are facing some painful and prolonged difficulties here in the U.S. as the true nature of the economic downfall begins to sink in. We have written before – this is not just a cyclical recession, but rather capitalism is going through a major restructuring, a new phase. [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: For my best replenishing, I head north. That direction has always been healing and sacred to me. As a kid, my family used to go ‘Up North’ (a term that is part of our Wisconsin and Upper Michigan culture) every other year to be near a lake in [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Yesterday the Milwaukee area received 5-8 inches of rain in one afternoon and evening. I don’t even know how to talk about rain like that! If you watch CNN, you have seen some of the mess, but the reports of damage continue to mount tonight. It’s hot. It’s [...]