Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Last year nearly 1 in every five people here in the US lacked the money at some point to buy food, according to a Gallup survey released in January carried out on behalf of the Food Research and Action Center.
One in every five. Think about that – in a country [...]
Tags: concentration of wealth, ecological hope, ecology and justice, economies of growth, elizabeth warren, gap between rich and poor in u.s., hunger in the u.s., job satisfaction at record low, poverty increasing in u.s., unemployment rate, wealth generation
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
…we westerners have lost our ancestral knowledge of how to survive on the Earth. — Chellis Glendinning
The more I delve into the underpinnings of our ecological crisis, the larger, deeper, more profound the picture becomes. Now I’m reading a book that takes me right back to the original alienation, the [...]
Tags: chellis glendinning, collapse of civilization, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, ecology and justice, end of empire, food crisis, industrial agriculture, jared diamond, peak oil, planetary crisis, resilient communities, sedentism, technological society
Well, Friends, there is a lot to talk about here at our project, lots of catching up to do and things to tell you about. When I returned to my home town of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2 1/2 years ago, after 26 years in the DC area, the question for me was whether or not this [...]
Tags: biocapacity, center for new creation, ecological hope, ecological limits, ecological overshoot, justfaith ministries, living beyond the end of the world, living beyond the end of the world: a spirituality of hope, margaret swedish, spirituality and ecology
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
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In our last post we reflected on what it means to be part of one round finite world, a beautiful globe that we share with 6.8 billion people and millions of other species, [...]
Tags: arctic melting, china air pollution, earthweek, eco-communities, ecological hope, fabric of life, global warming, inupiat sue exxonmobil, kivalina, one round world, we are one