‘This world is ending…,’ so we’d better make a new one
This world of ecological overshoot is ending, and it is time, and soon, to start creating the new one.
When water grows scarce
Water scarcity will become critical issue in North America because of global warming and climate change, says report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Living in right relationship with the Earth
Human beings must restore right relationships within the Earth’s biosphere if we are to survive the ecological crises ahead. The western drought, due in part to global warming, and population growth are revealing the maladaption of the human species to the Earth’s real limits.
The Passion of the Earth — a reflection for Holy Week
The Passion Story of Holy Week must include the Passion the Earth is undergoing right now because of how the human species has exploited and abused it.
Bush’s ‘Hole of Denial’
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Well, I guess the Bush administration is a bit on the defensive regarding global warming and climate change since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its dire report on the extent and acceleration of warming as a result of the human spewing of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into […]
We have time to save the planet; let’s use it
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
[This is a longish reflection today — just a warning. But I really wanted to share these thoughts with you on this important national holiday.]
On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I think about the legacy of long political, principled, social, and cultural struggle, of dedicated and inspired leaders, […]
Oceans and land in big trouble
Fostering Ecogical Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I guess we just have to keep putting out the bad news, the results of more and more studies, in the hope that this news eventually reaches critical mass in the consciousness of the nation.
Here’s one: the oceans are in big trouble. The rising CO2 levels are killing off […]
Drilling our way towards the inevitable
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Sometimes I step back and try to view the human species from the perspective of millions of year’s of evolution, millions of years of life forms coming into and out of existence, significant breakthroughs toward greater complexity, huge setbacks, then one time — consciousness, and that, too, emerging, unfolding, […]
Something to do this weekend
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Okay, after today’s earlier post, here is something fun to do this weekend — take your ecological footprint quiz. You can do this by clicking here. It is brought to you by the Earth Day Network. I found it by way of the Global Footprint Network, which also […]
Think, just think, about how we are living
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Think, yes, stop and think. Think about what is going on in this natural world right now, starting right here in the US. We already live in an altered world and there is no going back now to the old normal. We are going to have to get used […]
