Posts Tagged ‘ecological hope’

Our gadgets increase chances of ecological doomsday – yes, I mean your iPod, too

Posted September 21st, 2009 in Blog, Featured 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Oh, we love our high tech gadgets, don’t we?  Plasma TV screens, iPods, video game consoles, all those batteries plugged in for recharge, and on and on. We have little lights shining all through our houses, along the baseboards, on our power strips, on our appliances, our sound systems, our [...]

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9/11 comes around again – are we better for it?

Posted September 11th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
If ever we should have learned that we are part of a world, not able to live isolated and secure from turbulence and tumultuous change, without consequences for actions and behaviors, Sept. 11 8 years ago should have been one of those moments.
We all have our stories of how that [...]

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We are really hurting now – Part One

Posted September 8th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 5 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I am struck by the enormous transition taking place in our world.  This is not a sudden occurrence with last year’s financial collapse, this year’s recession, and the beginnings of climate catastrophes.  This has been unfolding for some time.
But until it hurts, we seem not to want to notice.
Economically, we [...]

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We can live differently – it really is possible

Posted August 26th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 2 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
We insist often here that it is possible to live differently.  We are not bereft of ideas for how to get ourselves out of this industrial/post-industrial mess we have made and to begin to create a new way of life that puts the human back into balance with the ecosystems [...]

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