Posts Tagged ‘climate change’

Climate Change Bill — not enough, but at least it’s something

Posted June 25th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Well, House Speaker Pelosi is working hard to get the climate legislation passed.  Though it may not be adequate, it is something, it is a first — the first time the U.S. government might actually pass legislation that addresses the threat of climate change, that begins to create an enforceable [...]

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More people hungry than ever before

Posted June 22nd, 2009 in Blog, Featured 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today form Margaret Swedish:
This story makes me so sad — and angry.  The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) just released a report indicating that 1.02 billion people are hungry in this world right now — 100 million more than last year.
The most recent increase in hunger is not the consequence of [...]

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Live differently — we’d better, and in a hurry

Posted June 17th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 0 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
If you want, and in a hurry.
If you want a liveable world, if you want your kids to grow up not in catastrophe but rather in difficulty that contains hope for a future, live differently –
–if you want, as we said in our previous post, and in a hurry, if [...]

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Puzzle pieces put in place present grim picture

Posted May 30th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 0 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
How’s that title for a little alliteration?  Try to say it ten times real fast.
Okay, but seriously: sometimes it feels like my main job here is to grab up pieces of the picture, fragments that come from this source and that, and then put them together into a frame that [...]

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