Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: In a culture hypnotized by the myth of economic growth – that there will always be more forever and our standard of living will always increase for all eternity – it is hard to come crashing into the wall of limits. This is our most fundamental theme – [...]
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Well, Friends, there is a lot to talk about here at our project, lots of catching up to do and things to tell you about. When I returned to my home town of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2 1/2 years ago, after 26 years in the DC area, the question for me was whether or not this [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I’m sorry for not posting for several days. It has been a very busy time. But I must post today. I must. Like the tsunami that struck Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka several years ago, some natural disasters stun the brain, shatter the heart. They are some of the [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: War is the great Anti-Hope. And we have more than enough of that in the world. Did we need more, or bigger? Will that finally gives us the illusion of security in a very volatile world? Because illusion is all it will give us — like the death [...]
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