Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [DON'T MISS CBS's '60 MINUTES' FROM SUNDAY, INCLUDING AN INTERVIEW WITH AN OIL RIG SURVIVOR. BP IS RUNNING A CRIMINAL OPERATION IN THE GULF OF MEXICO. SEE WHY EVEN GREATER DISASTERS AWAIT US. DEMAND STRONGER ACTION FROM THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.] Look, it really is no comfort to say [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [NOTE: this will be my only post this week. Next post next Monday.] In the past couple of weeks in just two incidents, we have lost 40 lives to the drilling and mining of fossil fuels. Others are injured, scarred for life, traumatized by sudden, devastating explosions from [...]
Tags: clean coal, ecological hope, fossil fuel industry, gulf oil rig disaster, massey energy company, oil slick spreading, upper big branch mine
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Think we’re moving out of recession? They tell us that to cover over the fact that we are not, actually, moving out of recession, or that this is just a particularly deep and lasting recession that will end one day, maybe in 2011. But in reality, much, much [...]
Tags: corporate debt coming due, debt economy, ecological economics, ecological hope, economic collapse, extreme inequality, gap between rich and poor, growth economy, recession
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Folks who have read my book, heard my talks, or visit this website know that one of my favorite things to do is to put together seemingly disparate pieces of our ecological puzzle, connect seemingly separate dots, to try to present a more accurate picture of the human [...]
Tags: childhood depression, E.P.A., earth spirituality, Earthweek a diary of the planet, ecological hope, global warming, mexico oil, oil dependency, peak oil, pemex, south american heat wave, toxic waters