The crisis of ‘America’ — a Memorial Day weekend reflection
We are currently living in what researchers have called an ecological ‘overshoot and collapse’ mode. The hubris within the U.S. culture is a major obstacle to altering our course towards global catastrophe. Avoiding that catastrophe needs to become the patriotic project of our times.
Kempthorne and the Polar Bears
Polar bears listed as an endangered species because of global warming, but the Bush adminstration has no intention of addressing the causes of the threat - greenhouse gas emissions.
There’ll be a change in the weather…2
Destructive weather patterns, raging storms, tornados and blizzards may indicate the violent weather that will be a hallmark of climate change.
Spirituality of integrity, and also honesty
An ecological spirituality requires integrity and honesty — honesty about the world and who we are in it. The onus is on the wealthy to carry the weight of the societal, economic, and political changes required to save us from catastrophe. It’s in the bible.
Spiritual integrity in a world of growing hunger and desperation
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
What I want to talk about today is how we are going to live in a world like the one we have made and keep our integrity.
I feel completely overwhelmed by the week’s news on rising global hunger, the energy supply crisis that is driving up the price of […]
The world begins to go hungry
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
They are eating mud cookies in Haiti.
Haiti has been poor, desperately poor, for a very long time. Last week, the desperation reached a boiling point as the price of food rises across the globe. Haiti has always been a unique example of all that can go wrong […]
Engineering the Earth to death
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
When we speak about ecology, we speak of relationships. Over and over again we need to say this until we really ‘get it.’
We humans are not over and above Nature; we are not masters of Nature, much less the universe. We are not at the […]
Preparing for the hard times
The planetary crisis, the multiple ecological crises, will bring about a very hard time on this Earth. Humans must decide how we will live through this time of turbulence, upheaval, and wrenching change.
A world reeling
In a world reeling under unprecedented pressures, upheaval is now part of the context in which humans will live over this and the next generations. This can be disaster or opportunity, a call to begin creating a new more life-sustaining way of life.
A World of Hurt 2
Record oil prices, the mortgage crisis, the falling dollar — the world of hurt deepens affecting everything in our lives.
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