Posts Tagged ‘environmental disasters’

Preparing for the hard times

Posted March 19th, 2008 in Blog 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
[Good friends - this is a longer-than-usual post. Think of it as added reflection for this sacred week.]
I want to talk a bit about the hard times coming, how important it will be for us to prepare — not just in material terms, but also, and perhaps especially, within.
Our [...]

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Oceans as trash dumps

Posted March 7th, 2008 in Blog 0 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The NY Times Science Times section is one of my favorites. Comes every Tuesday. I missed my paper the other week, but then it appeared amidst the melting snow, quite wet. So before I could read it, I had to dry it out for a couple of [...]

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Humans are ruining the oceans

Posted February 15th, 2008 in Blog 2 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
This is not a small thing; this is a huge thing. A new study shows that we humans, our wasteful, toxic, fossil-fuel burning, greedy, over-consuming activities are negatively impacting the oceans in every corner of the planet.
The story is reported in today’s Washington Post (Study Finds Humans’ Effect on [...]

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The ecological lessons of Lake Mead

Posted February 13th, 2008 in Blog 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
There are lessons in abundance from the new study showing that Lake Mead is shrinking and may not have the capacity to support the water needs of 22 million people within the next 13-15 years. Last night, I linked to the MSNBC article. Today, there is more coverage [...]

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