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Peace on Earth Means Peace WITH Earth

Posted December 23rd, 2009 in Blog, Featured 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
This week from Margaret Swedish:
If we have learned anything by dint of our ecological crisis, surely it is the title of this post.  If any mirrors can honestly reflect the human predicament, they are those that hold up before us the images of this damaged planet.
For as we have damaged the planet, so [...]

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Turning our sights to where change really happens

Posted December 18th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 0 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Well, friends, thousands and thousands of folks are preparing themselves for “The Great Disappointment” in Copenhagen. In the end, world leaders may make some substantive pledges, and we emphasize the word pledges, to begin, that is, begin, making reductions in CO2 emissions — not much to start with, but more [...]

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Why laws of thermodynamics matter, and then: Faith Ecology Economy

Posted December 14th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Folks, we just published a new edition of our online Zine.
Topics:  1) Thermodynamics of Everyday Life, 2 essays written by Michael J. Swedish, professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering; 2) a new statement from religious groups, A Call to Integrate Faith, Ecology and the Global Economy.
I’m pretty proud of [...]

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Copenhagen: what else?

Posted December 7th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 7 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Copenhagen has center stage for a couple of weeks – for good or ill, right? — hosting the international conference on climate change.   I resist those who say that the planet lives or dies by Copenhagen.  If that’s the case, get ready for death.
But it’s not the case.  It [...]

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