Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: For my best replenishing, I head north. That direction has always been healing and sacred to me. As a kid, my family used to go ‘Up North’ (a term that is part of our Wisconsin and Upper Michigan culture) every other year to be near a lake in [...]
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 [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: NOAA has reported that, globally, the first 6 months of this year were the hottest Jan.-June period ever recorded. Arizonans are dealing with a deadly combination of high temps and high humidity (triple digit temps, dew points around 60), the mid-Atlantic is sweltering, many areas are dry as [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Well, friends, I’m going to be offline for about 9 days, time for reconnecting and replenishing. But I wanted to share some thoughts here and challenge us to do some radical new thinking about our predicament. Tomorrow ESPN will have a one hour special built around LeBron James’ [...]