Posted March 12th, 2007 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I just want to share an article with you from today’s Financial Times. It certainly caught my attention. It’s about the oil industry and how the so-called ‘seven sisters,’ now merged into the big oil companies we’ve all grown to know and love — ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, and [...]
Tags: consumer culture, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecology of war and peace, fossil fuel dependency, justice
Posted March 7th, 2007 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Is it a coincidence that the Bush war escalation in Iraq comes at the same time as the government we manipulated into being is about to finish writing the new law for the Iraq oil industry? We don’t think so. Recent articles make this clear, and I have [...]
Tags: consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecology of war and peace, fossil fuel dependency, inspiration and reflection
Posted February 17th, 2007 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Not news today, just a poem from Denise Levertov: —————————————————– It Should Be Visible If from Space not only sapphire continents, swirling oceans, were visible, but the wars – like bonfires, wildfires, forest conflagrations, flame and smoky smoulder — the Earth would seem a bitter pomander ball bristling [...]
Tags: deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecology of war and peace, environmental disasters, inspiration and reflection
Posted December 7th, 2006 in
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Fostering Ecogical Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I guess we just have to keep putting out the bad news, the results of more and more studies, in the hope that this news eventually reaches critical mass in the consciousness of the nation. Here’s one: the oceans are in big trouble. The rising CO2 levels are [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, ecology of war and peace, environmental disasters, fossil fuel dependency, greenhouse gas emissions, justice, population growth