Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Can you say the headline with an Aussie accent? The quote comes from Michael (??? couldn’t make out the last name), one of many people being interviewed this week on the Today Show’s week-long series, Ends of the Earth. Michael is a lawyer in Australia who has taken up the [...]
Tags: blue hole, climate change, ecological overshoot, ends of the earth, fabian cousteau, living beyond the end of the world, melting glaciers, Mt. Kilimanjaro, planetary crisis, today show, toxic waste
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
We are in an amazing time. Many of our problems are quite grave. In the midst of that, this resurgence of hope. Check out the one-minute YouTube video on our home page. It will make you feel really good — a welcome from the world to Obama. [...]
Tags: barack obama, caol-fired power plants, climate change, coal industry, earth spirituality, ecological hope, energy efficiency, global warming, Great Lakes, the great turning
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Exceedingly bad news from the Arctic this week. From the Washington Post yesterday, Report says Arctic temperatures at record highs:
“Autumn temperatures in the Arctic are at record levels, the Arctic Ocean is getting warmer and less salty as sea ice melts, and reindeer herds appear to be declining…”
Temperatures this autumn [...]
Tags: climate change, earth spirituality, ecological ethics, global warming, greenhouse gas, methane and global warming, permafrost melting, record arctic melt
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
What an amazing week in this country — with more drama to come. Won’t it be interesting to see what the markets do on Monday. You feel the meltdown in the air, the comeuppance for these years of profligate spending and profit-making, all based on credit, meaning debt.
That’s been us [...]
Tags: carbon emissions, climate change, earth spirituality, global warming, intergovernmental panel on climate change, ipcc, wall street collapse, white house council on environmental quality