Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Had to go to NYC for a funeral on Friday and Saturday so I missed a few days with my blog. Now it is time to catch up. I want to post today about the woeful state of our government under this Bush administration, or lack-of-administration, basically the give-away [...]
Fostering Ecogical Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I guess we just have to keep putting out the bad news, the results of more and more studies, in the hope that this news eventually reaches critical mass in the consciousness of the nation. Here’s one: the oceans are in big trouble. The rising CO2 levels are [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The project I am starting, in collaboration with many others, is called Spirituality and Ecological Hope, sponsored by the Center for New Creation (click on “About Margaret Swedish” to read about the project). Its intent is to examine the challenge of the ecological crisis to US society, and, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Browsing the NY Times Business section today, I found this article about the growing gap between rich and poor globally and in this country. The facts are disturbing: the richest 1% of the world’s population holds 40% of the world’s assets. Meanwhile, 50% of the population holds a mere [...]