Fostering Ecological Hope This week from Margaret Swedish: If we have learned anything by dint of our ecological crisis, surely it is the title of this post. If any mirrors can honestly reflect the human predicament, they are those that hold up before us the images of this damaged planet. For as we have damaged [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Folks, we just published a new edition of our online Zine. Topics: 1) Thermodynamics of Everyday Life, 2 essays written by Michael J. Swedish, professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering; 2) a new statement from religious groups, A Call to Integrate Faith, Ecology and the Global Economy. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]