Posted June 8th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Just a reminder: fostering ecological hope is not about fostering false hope about our situation on the planet right now. It is not about fostering denial or trying to assure us that life can go on as it is without a lot of inconvenience or, to be honest, [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, fossil fuel dependency, inspiration and reflection, population growth
Posted June 7th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Tonight from Margaret Swedish: Sorry for the long silence this week. I fight a virus after dealing with a family medical emergency. All these things that remind us we are not in control, that we, too, like all living things, are subject to nature, not in control of it, despite the mythology [...]
Tags: climate change, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, inspiration and reflection
Posted May 16th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [NOTE: I'm away a few days and won't post again until next Tuesday.] It’s that incapacity to feel any connection with our fellow creatures, with Nature, to have any integrity, any sense at all, about the significance of our relationships with the natural world, that seems so scary [...]
Tags: climate change, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, environmental disasters, greenhouse gas emissions
Posted May 13th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Had planned to post again sooner than this, but have felt overwhelmed, as I’m sure most of us have been feeling. So much human tragedy all at once. Did you watch the news this evening — not cable, the other guys? I could hardly move afterwards under the [...]
Tags: deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope