Posted November 13th, 2008 in
News
Spirituality and Ecological Hope was created to provide a forum, a space, for a growing community to reflect on what kind of human beings we will be as we go through the ecological crises that face us in this century.
This can be a grim reflection. Very little about our lives, how we live here in [...]
Tags: and god said it was good, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, living beyond the end of the world
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
We are in an amazing time. Many of our problems are quite grave. In the midst of that, this resurgence of hope. Check out the one-minute YouTube video on our home page. It will make you feel really good — a welcome from the world to Obama. [...]
Tags: barack obama, caol-fired power plants, climate change, coal industry, earth spirituality, ecological hope, energy efficiency, global warming, Great Lakes, the great turning
Posted September 19th, 2008 in
Blog
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Okay, one last post before we launch the new website on Monday. Not to worry, the blog will still be there. Nothing lost. But now it will be one of a few features on the site, along with a new online magazine, news features, suggestions for things [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, earth spirituality, ecological hope, fossil fuel dependency, greenhouse gas emissions
Posted September 15th, 2008 in
Blog
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
What a remarkable couple of weeks since I last posted. Drawing close to the dying and death of a loved one is a life-changing experience. How can it not be?
Especially in such a death-denying culture as this one?
When my Father died 20 years ago, my family first encountered home hospice. [...]
Tags: consumer culture, death and dying, deep ecology, denial of death, diminishment of earth, earth spirituality, ecological hope, home hospice, inspiration and reflection, regeneration of life, spirituality of dying