Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [This will be my only post this week. I will be attending Imago's EarthSpirit Rising gathering this weekend. More on that next week.] Look, what is being debated in Congress matters a lot — legislation about our energy future, how to tackle global warming, mind-busting deficits looming in [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: “…if the challenge is so absolute, the possibilities are equally comprehensive. We have identified the difficulties but also the opportunities of what is before us. A comprehensive change of consciousness is coming over the human community, especially in the industrial nations of the world. For the first time [...]
Tags: earth spirituality, ecological spirituality, ecozoic era, the great work, thomas berry
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: How’s that title for a little alliteration? Try to say it ten times real fast. Okay, but seriously: sometimes it feels like my main job here is to grab up pieces of the picture, fragments that come from this source and that, and then put them together into [...]
Tags: climate change, coal fired power plant, earth spirituality, energy use, environmental refugees, global warming, good samaritan, greenhouse gas emissions, humanitarian disasters, hurricane season, intergovernmental panel on climate change, oxfam america
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: We are immersed in mystery. We live in mystery. Something inside of us wants to pierce the mystery, peer into it, experience wonder. Something inside of us wants to know what is ‘out there,’ what we are part of, even if the discoveries can make us feel small [...]
Tags: earth spirituality, ecological hope, Hubble Space Telescope, living in mystery, new cosmology, shuttle atlantis, STS-125