Posts Tagged ‘ecological overshoot’

What is wrong with us

Posted January 17th, 2008 in Blog Comments Off

Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: That’s what I want to talk about today — what is wrong with us. When I think about how dire our situation is — ecological overshoot combined with climate change and the widespread toxic contamination of the planet — and with 2-3 billion more people about to join [...]

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Early year reflections on our planetary crisis

Posted January 9th, 2008 in Blog 2 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Sorry for the several days’ silence. It has been a busy time, including many hours spent on the final proofreading of my book on this whole topic of spirituality and ecological hope — due out this year. More on that soon. I’m pretty excited about it, to say [...]

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Does the ‘New Year’ mean anything?

Posted December 29th, 2007 in Blog 5 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: It’s only we humans that make such a big deal out of midnight on the last day of our measured calendars. Other cultures have or have had different calendars with different new year’s days. Animals, the weather, nature, could care less about our human measurements. Maybe if we [...]

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Climate change will change our lives — and most say they are ready

Posted November 30th, 2007 in Blog Comments Off

Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The world is ready for big lifestyle changes in response to the human warming of the planet — not everyone, but a large majority of us, this according to the BBC. This is very good news. But it makes all the more woeful the lack of leadership from [...]

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