Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Who needs bad news on a late summer weekend? It is deliciously cool here along Lake Michigan, like early October. Summer will be back, but this brief interlude is one of those moments that reminds us of seasonal changes to come, that embedded within this August cool spell [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Yes, that’s what’s happening. While this stupid debate rages about whether or not climate is changing because of human-induced warming of the atmosphere, or will change, or how soon the change will come about — climate is changing. And some of the effects are already severe. In this [...]
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