Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Sorry if you’ve been waiting for the latest post. Last week got out of hand. I will continue to attempt to post twice per week, but now and then, things come up. Gave a talk yesterday for the Sunday Forum at the First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee, a [...]
Tags: Big Bang, Creation, ecological footprint, ecological hope, First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee, jared diamond, possibility of a brand new world, Spitzer Space Telescope, we are made for wonder
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: If you’re paying attention to the news, you’ve seen reports from the Madeira Islands, Portugal – the massive floods, the torrential rains that caused torrents of water to wash away hillsides, homes, whole communities. This morning’s figures: 42 dead, 120 injured, many unaccounted for. Then this morning, I [...]
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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 – [...]
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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 [...]
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