Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Please forgive the silence. Last week was very busy and I didn’t get a chance to do a thoughtful post — and I don’t like to post if it is not thoughtful. Really hurting… yes, we are. The Philippines, American Samoa, Indonesia… there in those places are our [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Yesterday I went for a viewing of “Waterlife: The Story of the Last Great Fresh Water Supply on Earth.” It was hard to get out of my seat when it was over – 90 mins of unrelentingly bleak news about the Great Lakes, one of the world’s [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: So what do climate change, rising risk of heart disease, and Jimmy Carter’s concerns about racism embedded in the attacks on Prez Obama all have in common? Yesterday’s front page of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had these two headlines: Warming in Wisconsin: A rise in average annual temperatures [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: How can one not be moved by what is occurring in Taiwan, parts of mainland China and Japan in the wake of Typhoon Morakot. Hundreds dead, many still unaccounted for, some buried alive in mudslides, more than a million people with homes and villages destroyed, unimaginable destruction of [...]