Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Have you seen this commercial? This is Reality. I absolutely love this! Congratulations to the creators. I just want to add that there will never, ever, be such a thing as ‘clean coal,’ even if ‘capturing and sequestering’ carbon dioxide emissions actually worked, even if we could bury [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Well, as they say, the future is with the young. Depending on which young we are experiencing, that old saying can make us bash our heads against the wall — or infuse our life with hope, vigor, exuberance — and a memory of a lost zeal, battered and [...]
Tags: earth spirituality, ecological hope, great turning, hope is with youth, namaste
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [I GO TO ST. LOUIS THIS WEEK FOR A COUPLE OF SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, SO THIS WILL BE MY ONLY POST UNTIL MONDAY. THANKS FOR VISITING.] Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Hope we all had a little quiet time to think about those things for which we ought [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: This week we give thanks for the gifts of life, the generosity of our Planet Earth, which has provided us such abundance — flowing waters, rich soils, air to breathe, diversity of life, and the experience, uniquely human, of beauty. All of this now endangered by this one [...]
Tags: earth spirituality, ecological hope, gratitude, human solidarity, prodigal son, thanksgiving