Fostering Ecological Hope Today form Margaret Swedish: [WARNING: a longish post] Visitors to this blog know that we are not big fans of ethanol, and most especially corn ethanol, the favorite of giant US agribusiness and grain farmers. You can put ‘ethanol’ into our search engine and find posts about this with lots of links [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: This is not a small thing; this is a huge thing. A new study shows that we humans, our wasteful, toxic, fossil-fuel burning, greedy, over-consuming activities are negatively impacting the oceans in every corner of the planet. The story is reported in today’s Washington Post (Study Finds Humans’ [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: There are lessons in abundance from the new study showing that Lake Mead is shrinking and may not have the capacity to support the water needs of 22 million people within the next 13-15 years. Last night, I linked to the MSNBC article. Today, there is more coverage [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I truly believe that one of the keys to ecological hope (rather than the alternative) is for Homo sapiens sapiens to wake up — and soon, as in, right now — to the extent to which we have already altered the planet, destabilized its atmosphere, fragmented and undermined [...]