Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
So much is already destroyed.
Catching up slowly with Ken’s Burns’ documentary series on the National Parks, “America’s Best Idea.” I’ve been to so many of them, treasures every one.
So last night I was watching the second in the series in which he tells the story of the flooding of the [...]
Tags: climate change, ecological grief, fertilize oceans with iron, geoengineering, global warming, hetch hetchy, manifest destiny, national parks, peru disappearing glaciers, yosemite
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Sums up the daily news, daily. Always this mixture of good news and bad news, news to scare us to death about our future, signs of hope right in the midst of it, evidence of the ‘great turning.’
Will we turn in time?
Ecological grief and ecological hope – that’s where we [...]
Tags: brown pelicans dying, coal ash spill, Dr. Richard H. Schwartz, earth spirituality, ecological grief, ecological hope, gaia, great turning, industrial livestock agriculture, tva, vegetarian kids, widow's creek fossil plant
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
DEATH OF THE FORESTS: ANOTHER GLOBAL WARMING STORY
On a site that seeks to foster hope, we deal with grief. We have to. If you love the natural world, if you are tuned into its intricate beauty, its complex ecosytems, its resilience and rich biodiversity, you cannot help but feel in [...]
Tags: bark beetle, death for western forests, earth spirituality, ecological grief, global warming, mountain pine beetle