Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: We are facing some painful and prolonged difficulties here in the U.S. as the true nature of the economic downfall begins to sink in. We have written before – this is not just a cyclical recession, but rather capitalism is going through a major restructuring, a new phase. [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The title of my second book was certainly intended to get attention: Living Beyond the ‘End of the World:’ A Spirituality of Hope. End of the world? Hope? How do these things go together? It is uncomfortable, perhaps sad, certainly frightening, but an end of a world is [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Okay, here’ some good news from the economic crisis — we’re throwing away less trash. Landfills are facing economic stress. This is a good thing, and we hope it lasts — also that anyone laid off from jobs at landfills can get a another job. This story was [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Sometimes when probing the newspapers, I run into something that jumps off the page at me, that reveals something about what is wrong with us, how we have gotten ourselves into multiple crises, both ecological and economic, until now we don’t have a clue how to get ourselves [...]