Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Okay, here’ some good news from the economic crisis — we’re throwing away less trash. Landfills are facing economic stress. This is a good thing, and we hope it lasts — also that anyone laid off from jobs at landfills can get a another job. This story was [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Regular visitors and subscribers to this blog know I have an intense pet peeve with the practice of blowing up magnificent, ancient Appalachian Mountains to get to coal seams. If you don’t know about the practice yet, or aren’t moved by it yet, click on our Resources tab [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: With all the bad news, today I want to celebrate Spring — because it surely is coming. We bask in glorious sunshine and warmer temps today, knowing that March still has plenty of roar left in it. It is a month of great weather contrasts in this part [...]
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 [...]