Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I know that my headlines do not always bolster my ‘ecological hope’ theme, or the fostering of it, but there it is. I still believe we have to confront reality or else our hope is based in fantasy. So Saturday, the NY Times had this amazing 3-page spread, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Recently I launched a conversation with colleagues in the Milwaukee area about my work, about this project, about new searches, about trying to chart a path for work like this in a world reeling with change, transitioning into something we can’t know or see, the fear that the [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: My robin is still singing. In the late winter, he decided to nest just outside my little beat up flat and early in the morning, and then late in the day, he goes high in a tree or on the wires out back of my house and sings [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Tough to reconcile that headline with the mantra with which I begin each post – fostering ecological hope. The fact is, and I really believe this, that hope rests firmly on clarity of vision about our predicament. If we don’t see what’s wrong with the way we humans [...]