Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
These are scary times, or maybe ‘unnerving’ is the better word. I was watching the House hearings today with Alan Greenspan and was stunned by his admission that the ‘best minds’ in the financial world were not smart enough to see what was coming.
Not smart enough. Among other things…
But there [...]
Tags: alan greenspan, benoit mandelbrot, butterfly effect, credit default swaps, ecological overshoot, financial crisis, margaret atwood, nassim nicholas taleb, securitization, verlyn klinkenborg, waxman hearings
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 [...]
Tags: capture and sequester, carbon emissions, clean coal, dirty coal, earth spirituality, Earthjustice, mountaintopping, mountaintopping waste, stream buffer zone rule
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 [...]
Tags: climate change, earth spirituality, ecological ethics, global warming, greenhouse gas, methane and global warming, permafrost melting, record arctic melt
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 [...]
Tags: and god said it was good, connie barlow, earth spirituality, evolutionary story, faith and science, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN, michael dowd, overpopulation, species extinction, thank god for evolution