Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I have so much on my mind today. The drivers behind all these dramatic changes in our world — changing climate, collapsing economies, millions of newly unemployed, millions of home foreclosures, ecosystem depletion, changes in behaviors of species, of flora and fauna, rapid population growth, overconsumption, and on [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: We are living in a world of hurt. Each day, the news is grimmer and it is clear we are in for a very rough ride over the next few years. This economic meltdown is a dramatic manifestation of how we have lived beyond sustainability in nearly every [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [This is a guest post from Dr. Richard Schwartz, a founder of Jewish Vegetarians of North America. We don't usually promote films as blog posts, but we consider the expansion of industrial livestock agriculture to be one of the biggest threats to the well-being of the planet. In [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I hope we save newspapers. They are crucial as a lens to our world. So, this morning, on the front page of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, we were confronted with one of those contrasts that clarifies the larger picture. We face choices in how we are going to [...]