Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
In my book, Living Beyond the ‘End of the World,’ a Spirituality of Hope, I focus a chapter on the growing links between our ecological crises and the threat of wars and other forms of social violence. If we think oil has something to do with going to war in [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Obstacles to addressing our ecological crisis in any significant way are strewn all through the U.S. culture. We have a president who gets the problem to some extent, at least on climate, but says some stuff that makes me cringe; for example, “There is no contradiction between environmentally sustainable growth [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Look, I’m as relieved as anyone that Barack Obama is our president and I think he is a thoughtful and serious guy, though we here have always known that he was a centrist, not a true progressive.
That said, we have to get serious about challenging him on some of his [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
First of all, an apology for not posting for a week to all you fans who have missed us! I have been in a very intense family time, as we go through an enormous transition of letting go our family home 0f 61 years. Some readers remember that my Mother [...]