Posts Tagged ‘ecological crisis’

One round world

Posted January 25th, 2010 in Blog, Featured 2 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Earlier today someone thanked me by way of the comment function for an essay I wrote one year ago. So I went back to look at it. I found it still so relevant that I want to revisit it here with a link:  Arriving at the End of the Infinite.
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Is going green breaking up families?

Posted January 21st, 2010 in Blog, Featured 3 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I asked my  niece what I should write about today. The choices were: more Haiti, Asian Carp DNA in Lake Michigan (thanks Army Corps of Engineers and the State of Illinois), kids altering the functioning of their brains by being wired and online an average 7-8 hours a day, or…
Therapists [...]

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The cultural picture

Posted September 16th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 1 Comment

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 by 2055 could [...]

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Financial power concentrates, boding ill for the planet

Posted July 17th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
You know, in this economic meltdown, you look at the signposts to see if there is any direction in terms of where we are headed.  I have a few for us today.
Goldman Sachs — stunning profits
JP Morgan Chase — stunning profits
Citigroup — terrific profits
Bank of America — surprising profits
U.S. Treasury [...]

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