Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I often tell people not to look to hope for that other thing, optimism. And don’t look to me for optimism. The trends are not looking good for us in terms of a future without a lot of suffering, without the necessity of huge choices carrying enormous significance, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Right? I mean, Missouri, Arkansas, western Texas – it really is the end for some folks, homes, whole communities, burned, torn apart by tornadoes, flooded out by rain totals of 15 inches or more over 4 days and more to come. In inundated and damaged areas of Missouri, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish Yes, back to the basic question of this project, the climax of the book out of which it emerged (see sidebar): What kind of human beings will we be as we go through the crisis? What I wrote a week ago has stayed with me, and with some [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Yesterday evening I had the privilege to present to a graduate class at Marquette University. The class is called, ‘Models of Sustainability,’ taught/led by Dr. Robert Pavlik, Ph.D. Dr. Pavlik is assistant director of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning in the College of Education at Marquette. [...]