Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Two paths diverge. That’s how we ended yesterday, and I just wanted to follow up, because there was more news today about these choices in front us, other dramatic examples of what I mean. First, this thought towards the end of Thomas Homer-Dixon‘s book, The Upside of Down, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The project I am involved in deals with hope — and I’m telling you, some days I know what that phrase from scripture means where it says, hope against hope. There is such force of momentum in global dynamics right now — population growth, economic growth in developing [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Sorry for not posting all week — some emergencies that had to be dealt with. You know how life is, what John Lennon once sang: “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” Not a bad lesson for us to learn as we confront the multi-layers of [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: So the Feds will do the unprecedented thing — they will bail out Wall Street. We will pay dearly for this decision. One take on this, The end of Wall Street as we know it, from CNN. Another from today’s NY Times: Rescue Tests the Fed’s Credibility. The [...]