Posted November 13th, 2008 in
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Spirituality and Ecological Hope was created to provide a forum, a space, for a growing community to reflect on what kind of human beings we will be as we go through the ecological crises that face us in this century.
This can be a grim reflection. Very little about our lives, how we live here in [...]
Tags: and god said it was good, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, living beyond the end of the world
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
We are in an amazing time. Many of our problems are quite grave. In the midst of that, this resurgence of hope. Check out the one-minute YouTube video on our home page. It will make you feel really good — a welcome from the world to Obama. [...]
Tags: barack obama, caol-fired power plants, climate change, coal industry, earth spirituality, ecological hope, energy efficiency, global warming, Great Lakes, the great turning
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
DEATH OF THE FORESTS: ANOTHER GLOBAL WARMING STORY
On a site that seeks to foster hope, we deal with grief. We have to. If you love the natural world, if you are tuned into its intricate beauty, its complex ecosytems, its resilience and rich biodiversity, you cannot help but feel in [...]
Tags: bark beetle, death for western forests, earth spirituality, ecological grief, global warming, mountain pine beetle
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Some news is just infuriating. As we have posted many times in the past, in the hunger for coal to feed our energy consumption, President Bush just cannot seem to get enough of blowing up, tearing up, ripping up, and contaminating Nature. And, as his presidency comes ever closer to [...]
Tags: capture and sequester, carbon emissions, clean coal, dirty coal, earth spirituality, Earthjustice, mountaintopping, mountaintopping waste, stream buffer zone rule