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 [...]
Tags: 350 ppm, cap-and-trade, climate change, climate legislation, co2 emissions, copenhagen climate change conference, house speaker pelosi, Sears Tower, sustainable buildings
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 [...]
Tags: beatitudes and woes, biofuels, climate change, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, food as commodity, gospel of luke, grain for livestock, industrial agriculture, justice and poverty, prophet Isaiah, united nations development program, universal declaration of human rights, world hunger
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 [...]
Tags: climate change, David Orr, earth day, earth spirituality, EarthSpirit Rising, global warming, Jane Lubchenco, John P. Holdren, noaa, United States Global Change Research Program
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 [...]
Tags: climate change, coal fired power plant, earth spirituality, energy use, environmental refugees, global warming, good samaritan, greenhouse gas emissions, humanitarian disasters, hurricane season, intergovernmental panel on climate change, oxfam america