Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
This will be our one post for the week. Following the Labor Day holiday, we’ll be back to our 2-3 posts per week pace. Lots to think about, but there is nothing like a fire of historic proportions to focus the mind.
Regular visitors know that we have written several times [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
In my book, Living Beyond the ‘End of the World,’ a Spirituality of Hope, I focus a chapter on the growing links between our ecological crises and the threat of wars and other forms of social violence. If we think oil has something to do with going to war in [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today form Margaret Swedish:
This story makes me so sad — and angry. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) just released a report indicating that 1.02 billion people are hungry in this world right now — 100 million more than last year.
The most recent increase in hunger is not the consequence of [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Breathtaking, these scenes of the fires outside Santa Barbara. Mesmerizing. Awe-striking. Leaves me speechless, without words — and yet I attempt the words, because that is what I do. I write. I give presentations. I talk — to and with others. I try to find words, images, that express what [...]