Posted August 8th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
What would your Mother say if you walked through her house disposing of trash on the floors and furniture, leaving your body waste in her sinks and shower stalls, filling it with clutter, making an unhealthy mess of the place, disease and germs feasting on your waste, fouling the air [...]
Tags: consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, environmental disasters, greenhouse gas emissions
Posted August 5th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
So, then, why don’t we wake up?
It’s like those alarm clocks that keep getting louder and louder the more they are ignored. When they annoy us, we hit the button, but a few minutes later, it starts all over again.
Our ecological crisis. Alarms going off all over [...]
Tags: climate change, earth spirituality, ecological hope, greenhouse gas emissions, renewable fuels
Posted August 3rd, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Want to share an opinion piece that was in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel yesterday. It makes for some good reflection on the direction we need to go as we ponder how in the world we will help this already-depleted planet support a burgeoning population when we are already living [...]
Tags: consumer culture, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, fossil fuel dependency, justice
Posted July 31st, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
If we could see the crisis time from the perspective of the children, would that change things? If we project current trends into the next few decades, say to mid-century when there will be 2-3 billion more of us on an already over-stressed planet, you know, when our small [...]
Tags: consumer culture, earth spirituality, ecological hope, inspiration and reflection