Posted January 17th, 2008 in
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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 [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, justice
Posted January 9th, 2008 in
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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 [...]
Tags: climate change, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, inspiration and reflection
Posted December 29th, 2007 in
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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 [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, ecology of war and peace, inspiration and reflection, justice
Posted November 30th, 2007 in
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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 [...]
Tags: climate change, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, ecology of war and peace, fossil fuel dependency, greenhouse gas emissions, inspiration and reflection, justice, population growth