Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Recently I launched a conversation with colleagues in the Milwaukee area about my work, about this project, about new searches, about trying to chart a path for work like this in a world reeling with change, transitioning into something we can’t know or see, the fear that the [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Hope I haven’t lost anyone here. It has been a long time since I posted, and this will be the only one this week because I’m leading a little weekend retreat in South Carolina. I have been very distracted by what is going on here in my home [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Since Tuesday, these are the two images I can’t get out of my head. They just keep accompanying each other, dialoguing with each other, arguing back and forth in a stark dissonance that wants resolution: Credit (recommend this link highly): University Corporation of Atmospheric Research (UCAR) And then [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I want to put a couple of important trends together here. One we write about often – that the human species is living far beyond the Earth’s biocapacity. This we already know, and the graphic right here shows exactly how dire this situation is – we are overshooting [...]