Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: So here’s a good one with which to start off. The topic of the High Plains (or Ogallala) aquifer is something I bring to most of my talks – this singular source of water for 8 states of the Great Plains – because it is such a fine [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I spent Tuesday in Green Lake WI presenting to three school groups and then a public keynote in the evening, sponsored by the Green Lake County UW-Extension and the Green Lake County Energy Independence Committee. My evening topic was “Global Markets & Earth’s Limits,” an oxymoron if ever [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I could also title this post, fighting for the right to eat – because it looks more and more like this will be one of our epic struggles of the future. Last March I collaborated with the Peace and International Issues Committee of the Interfaith Conference of Greater [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Or not. It’s certainly something to get excited about – but not in a good way. The Global Footprint Networkis one of the sources I like to cite in my presentations and workshops because they do such a great job of explaining in terms easy to comprehend the [...]