Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: How else to explain events such as this: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders BP to stop using a certain chemical dispersant in the Gulf of Mexico, and BP continues to use it anyway. Or this: because the world is disturbed by images of an oil-fouled sea and [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Okay, see if you can guess who said this: “We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now, we can control our future instead of letting the future control us. Our decision about energy will test the character of the American [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: “What is in store for our children’s children? What will be left for those who come after? Appalled by the questions themselves, we turn to immediate tasks and try to close our minds to nightmare scenarios of want and war in a wasted, contaminated world.” – Joanna Macy [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Here’s to our dead, the people who have died for us, for our way of life, for our US American values. Let us pray for them. Let us pray for the 11 men incinerated on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, one of whom, Gordon Jones, all of 28 [...]