Posted May 28th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The Bush administration has been ridiculed for so long for challenging the science behind climate change, and then for its efforts to undermine international efforts to reduce the offending carbon dioxide emissions, that the very fact that our government would issue a stark, scary report on the impacts [...]
Tags: climate change, earth spirituality, ecological hope, environmental disasters, fossil fuel dependency, greenhouse gas emissions
Posted May 23rd, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [Friends and Visitors: just a warning that this is a longish post, not quick reading. I hope you will ponder this reflection and share your thoughts with us.] We are not a humble nation, and we are certainly not used to the idea that U.S. America may not [...]
Tags: climate change, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, fossil fuel dependency, inspiration and reflection, population growth
Posted April 18th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: What I want to talk about today is how we are going to live in a world like the one we have made and keep our integrity. I feel completely overwhelmed by the week’s news on rising global hunger, the energy supply crisis that is driving up the [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, fossil fuel dependency, inspiration and reflection, justice
Posted April 13th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: They are eating mud cookies in Haiti. Haiti has been poor, desperately poor, for a very long time. Last week, the desperation reached a boiling point as the price of food rises across the globe. Haiti has always been a unique example of all that can go wrong [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, earth spirituality, ecological hope, fossil fuel dependency, inspiration and reflection, justice