Posts Tagged ‘ecological overshoot’

How agriculture gave rise to the ecological crisis – and a host of other human crises as well

Posted February 13th, 2010 in Blog, Featured 6 Comments

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 original alienation, the [...]

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News: Something’s happening here – Feb. 2010 update

Posted February 1st, 2010 in Blog, Featured, News 0 Comments

Well, Friends, there is a lot to talk about here at our project, lots of catching up to do and things to tell you about.  When I returned to my home town of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2 1/2 years ago, after 26 years in the DC area, the question for me was whether or not this [...]

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Haiti

Posted January 13th, 2010 in Blog, Featured 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I’m sorry for not posting for several days.  It has been a very busy time.
But I must post today.  I must.  Like the tsunami that struck Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka several years ago, some natural disasters stun the brain, shatter the heart.  They are some of the most devastating reminders [...]

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War just doesn’t help

Posted December 2nd, 2009 in Blog, Featured 3 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
War is the great Anti-Hope.  And we have more than enough of that in the world. Did we need more, or bigger? Will that finally gives us the illusion of security in a very volatile world?
Because illusion is all it will give us — like the death penalty, or bigger [...]

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