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 [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: It is my job right now to search out the ecological condition of our world. That is the work of this project — that, and then working with all sorts of people and communities to figure out how we live in that, what we are called to do, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Can you say the headline with an Aussie accent? The quote comes from Michael (??? couldn’t make out the last name), one of many people being interviewed this week on the Today Show‘s week-long series, Ends of the Earth. Michael is a lawyer in Australia who has taken [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: We bask in a new political moment here in the U.S. We bask in a new moment — for a moment. Because we know how difficult the days ahead will be. President-Elect Barack Obama, to our relief, did not take a triumphant tone in his victory speech. The [...]