Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Wow, the climate in the body politic is really getting ugly, isn’t it? So many disturbing signs that we do not have what we need in terms of civil discourse to even think seriously about our many crises, much less come up with ways to address them. I [...]
Tags: climate change, climate shock, divisive political discourse, ecological crisis, global warming, thomas homer-dixon
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Yesterday the Milwaukee area received 5-8 inches of rain in one afternoon and evening. I don’t even know how to talk about rain like that! If you watch CNN, you have seen some of the mess, but the reports of damage continue to mount tonight. It’s hot. It’s [...]
Tags: ecological crisis, ecological hope, midwest regional collaborative for sustainability education, milwaukee floods, mrcse
Posted May 25th, 2010 in
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NEW RELEASE – Faith Encounters the Ecological Crisis We are very pleased to announce that JustFaith Ministries has recently released an 8-week module “designed as a community learning process built around the book, Living Beyond the ‘End of the World,’ A Spirituality of Hope,” by blog author Margaret Swedish. Entitled, Faith Encounters the Ecological Crisis, [...]
Tags: ecological crisis, ecological hope, gulf of mexico oil disaster, justfaith ministries, justmatters, living beyond the end of the world, planetary crisis
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: In my last post, I wrote about goodness and how we will know when the culture is arriving there – when we value human life and dignity, when we value the life-giving eco-community in which we are embedded, more than we value affluence, acquisition of things we don’t [...]
Tags: coal mining, down-scale, earth biocapacity, ecological crisis, ecology and economics, growth economy, moral challenge of energy crisis, population growth