Posts Tagged ‘climate change’

Change whirling all around us

Posted February 22nd, 2010 in Blog, Featured 5 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
If you’re paying attention to the news, you’ve seen reports from the Madeira Islands, Portugal – the massive floods, the torrential rains that caused torrents of water to wash away hillsides, homes, whole communities. This morning’s figures: 42 dead, 120 injured, many unaccounted for.
Then this morning, I read this, in [...]

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El Niño and global warming: a tumultuous relationship

Posted February 9th, 2010 in Blog, Featured 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Bill and Margaret Swedish:
How do you like El Niño so far?  Wild isn’t it, the volumes of water falling over this country, some of it in monumental snowstorms.  El Niño comes and goes, and is part of what creates weather across the planet. But as the atmosphere and oceans warm, El [...]

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Back to work

Posted January 4th, 2010 in Blog, Featured 4 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Okay, holidays over, back to work.  I know so many people reluctant to go back to their jobs and stresses, and that already says something about our world, right?
It’s tough out there.
I always hate being the purveyor of bad news, but I was really struck by a long article in [...]

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So much is already gone…

Posted November 9th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 3 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
So much is already destroyed.
Catching up slowly with Ken’s Burns’ documentary series on the National Parks, “America’s Best Idea.”  I’ve been to so many of them, treasures every one.
So last night I was watching the second in the series in which he tells the story of the flooding of the [...]

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