Posts Tagged ‘ecological hope’

Copenhagen: what else?

Posted December 7th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 7 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Copenhagen has center stage for a couple of weeks – for good or ill, right? — hosting the international conference on climate change.   I resist those who say that the planet lives or dies by Copenhagen.  If that’s the case, get ready for death.
But it’s not the case.  It [...]

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We are really hurting now, Part III

Posted November 23rd, 2009 in Blog, Featured 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The title of my second book was certainly intended to get attention: Living Beyond the ‘End of the World:’ A Spirituality of Hope.
End of the world?  Hope?  How do these things go together?
It is uncomfortable, perhaps sad, certainly frightening, but an end of a world is coming, even has already [...]

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We are really hurting now – Part II

Posted October 12th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 0 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Please forgive the silence.  Last week was very busy and I didn’t get a chance to do a thoughtful post — and I don’t like to post if it is not thoughtful.
Really hurting… yes, we are.
The Philippines, American Samoa, Indonesia…  there in those places are our brothers and sisters.  They [...]

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I could just weep today

Posted September 30th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 2 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Yesterday I went for a viewing of “Waterlife:   The Story of the Last Great Fresh Water Supply on Earth.”   It was hard to get out of my seat when it was over – 90 mins of unrelentingly bleak news about the Great Lakes, one of the world’s natural wonders.  [...]

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