A World of Hurt
We are in a world of hurt, result of our unsustainable way of life and the shifting dynamics within the human community.
Ethanol is causing food scarcity and hunger: a moral quandary for our lives
Ethanol boom in United States is leading to a food scarcity crisis around the world.
Humans are ruining the oceans
Human activity is ruining the oceans.
Energy: what we should NOT do vs. what some folks are trying to do
Contrast between the efforts of many local communities around the country to reduce their carbon footprint, while efforts on the part of some big energy interests to increase energy from nuclear and biofuel production will add to the greenhouse gas problem.
We have entered a new geological epoch — made by us
Humans have so altered the physics and biological processes of the Earth that more scientists concur we are moving from one geological epoch, the Holocene, to a new one, called the Anthropocene, with a sixth great extinction already underway.
Diminished snowpack in US west spells trouble
Human-caused global warming is causing the snowpack in the western United States to decline. A water crisis looms. Ecological hope depends upon our willingness to stop growth that is completetly unsustainable.
Fall in love again with the Earth
Ecological hope depends upon reconnecting with Nature, falling in love again with the Earth of which we are a part.
Ecological hope sprouting all over the place
Ecological hope is manifested in the thousands of initiatives from grassroots groups, religious groups, and individuals who are witnessing the need for dramatic action to address global warming and climate change.
Alarms bells at the poles — time to wake up
New research published in Nature Geoscience on January 13, 2008, shows rapid melting of Antarctica ice sheet, raising fears of more rapid and deadly ocean level rise over the next century.
“If you cannot lead…get out of the way.”
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Ooo, it got a little nasty over there in Bali. Folks around the world got a bit perturbed with our indomitable negotiating team.
Participants say they’ve never seen anything like it at a UN conference.
We were booed. We were booed roundly, loudly, by the international community.
It happened when, […]
