Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I spent Tuesday in Green Lake WI presenting to three school groups and then a public keynote in the evening, sponsored by the Green Lake County UW-Extension and the Green Lake County Energy Independence Committee. My evening topic was “Global Markets & Earth’s Limits,” an oxymoron if ever [...]
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 [...]