Posts Tagged ‘ecological grief’

Just how bad is our denial? A reflection on the human species

Posted December 6th, 2011 in Blog, Featured 2 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Dealing with reality is an essential survival skill. Divorce yourself too much from it, you have a problem. Any species needs to be super-aware of its habitat, the state its in, what’s happening to it – is it healthy, threatened, stable, unstable? Am I in danger? Reality: The [...]

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How do we live now?

Posted June 1st, 2010 in Blog, Featured Comments Off

Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: “What is in store for our children’s children? What will be left for those who come after? Appalled by the questions themselves, we turn to immediate tasks and try to close our minds to nightmare scenarios of want and war in a wasted, contaminated world.” – Joanna Macy [...]

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There’s no fixing this – the Gulf and its lessons

Posted May 24th, 2010 in Blog, Featured 9 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [Don't miss our home page features below the blog post] Like any death, or fatal diagnosis, there comes the time of acceptance, the moment when it really sinks in. It is often accompanied by deep sorrow and depression. You can feel that coming in regard to the Deepwater [...]

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Oil spill: permanent loss

Posted May 11th, 2010 in Blog, Featured 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: You can feel the despair beginning to sink in – the BP oil spill disaster is a permanent, horrible loss, a permanent horrible still-unfolding toxic poisoning of the Gulf of Mexico, its living creatures, and the wetlands and shores, the deltas and islands, the coastal ecosystems of our [...]

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