Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The other day, Thomas Friedman wrote another Op-Ed regarding ethanol [with apologies to the NY Times, but they make you pay to view this article unless you are a subscriber, so I have copied it at the end of this post]. This time, it was about the dumbness [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: With all the cheer-leading going on regarding plunging oil prices, and therefore the price at the pump, it is difficult to ring the alarm bell and get any serious attention. Who wants to be told this is not a good thing? It’s such good economic news, freeing up [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: As you may know, there is a fierce argument about nuclear energy raging among those concerned about the rise in greenhouse gases that are threatening the Earth’s atmosphere by heating it up rapidly (gently referred to as global ‘warming’). Nuclear energy does not emit greenhouse gases and so [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Among the resources that we humans are seriously depleting is water. Population stresses, overuse and waste in rich developed countries, contamination, and growing areas of drought are exacerbating a problem already critical in some parts of the world. Some Middle East experts will tell you that much of [...]