Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Friends, I wanted to share something as we move into the Memorial Day weekend. Lacking the time for a thoughtful essay before the weekend begins, I then came upon an article referenced in a post on Andrew Revkin’s DotEarth blog. It appeared in the journal, The Economist, not [...]
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 [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I have so much on my mind today. The drivers behind all these dramatic changes in our world — changing climate, collapsing economies, millions of newly unemployed, millions of home foreclosures, ecosystem depletion, changes in behaviors of species, of flora and fauna, rapid population growth, overconsumption, and on [...]