Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: In one of the more promising moves from Pres-elect Obama on the climate crisis, tomorrow he will announce that Prof. John P. Holdren is to become the presidential science advisor. Holdren, whom we much admire here, is a physicist and Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School [...]
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 [...]
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. It’s [...]
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 [...]