Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: It’s been and continues to be a busy week. But I just need to vent this quickly. I mentioned the other day that coal ash ponds are all over the place, poisoning communities, threatening life of all sorts. Yesterday the NY Times gave this story the space it [...]
Tags: coal ash, coal ash toxic contamination, dirty coal
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [LONG POST AGAIN. I promise to shorten them from here on out!] Okay, we get going again now in the new year. And, friends, we face some pretty stark choices, choices that need to be made immediately if we are going to reverse the course we are on [...]
Tags: anthropocene era, carbon tax, clean coal, dirty coal, glacier national park, global climate change, global warming, james hansen, plum creek timber, united states forest service
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [Warning: this post is a bit on the long side. But please read on through, email it to friends and networks, copy it and share it in discussion and reflection groups. We have got to relearn how to live on this precious planet!] I am preoccupied now with [...]
Tags: clean coal, climate change, coal ash disaster, coal industry, dirty coal, global climate disruption, global warming, kingston fossil plant, shishmaref, tennessee valley authority
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Really, I don’t know how else to describe what he’s doing as he mercifully prepares to leave the White House. From drilling in fragile ecosystems to blowing up mountains to pushing policies that will increase pollution and noise in our public parks and forests… I have wondered this [...]
Tags: Appalachian Mountains, bush new rule on coal mining, dirty coal, earth spirituality, ecological ethics, mountaintopping