Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Think we’re moving out of recession? They tell us that to cover over the fact that we are not, actually, moving out of recession, or that this is just a particularly deep and lasting recession that will end one day, maybe in 2011. But in reality, much, much [...]
Tags: corporate debt coming due, debt economy, ecological economics, ecological hope, economic collapse, extreme inequality, gap between rich and poor, growth economy, recession
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: You know, in this economic meltdown, you look at the signposts to see if there is any direction in terms of where we are headed. I have a few for us today. Goldman Sachs — stunning profits JP Morgan Chase — stunning profits Citigroup — terrific profits Bank [...]
Tags: cap-and-trade, Citigroup profits, concentration of wealth, ecological crisis, ecological economics, ecology and economy, economic collapse, Goldman Sachs profits, government bailout, jp morgan chase profits, matt taibbi, paul krugman
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, [...]
Tags: climate change, dirty coal, ecological collapse, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, economic collapse, global warming, great lakes compact, mountaintop coal mining, mtr, water wars