Posts Tagged ‘consumer culture’

A spirituality of hope 2

Posted April 9th, 2008 in Blog 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Two paths diverge. That’s how we ended yesterday, and I just wanted to follow up, because there was more news today about these choices in front us, other dramatic examples of what I mean.
First, this thought towards the end of Thomas Homer-Dixon’s book, The Upside of Down, , which [...]

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A spirituality of hope

Posted April 8th, 2008 in Blog 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The project I am involved in deals with hope — and I’m telling you, some days I know what that phrase from scripture means where it says, hope against hope.
There is such force of momentum in global dynamics right now — population growth, economic growth in developing countries, energy demands, [...]

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Engineering the Earth to death

Posted April 1st, 2008 in Blog 3 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
When we speak about ecology, we speak of relationships. Over and over again we need to say this until we really ˜get it.’
We humans are not over and above Nature; we are not masters of Nature, much less the universe. We are not at the top of a [...]

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“Demand is very strong. Supply is constrained. It’s as simple as that.”

Posted March 29th, 2008 in Blog 3 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Sorry for not posting all week — some emergencies that had to be dealt with. You know how life is, what John Lennon once sang: “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.”
Not a bad lesson for us to learn as we confront the multi-layers of our [...]

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