Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Almost everything seems to be going wrong for the American economy at once. People are buying less, but most things are costing more. Mortgage rates are rising, the dollar is falling and prices of key commodities like oil are leaping from one record high to the next. A [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Longish post – couldn’t help myself. So, I go away a few days and now there is so much to talk about. I have many articles strewn all around me, indications of the world of hurt impacting so many people right now. Amidst all the election hoopla, lots [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today form Margaret Swedish: [WARNING: a longish post] Visitors to this blog know that we are not big fans of ethanol, and most especially corn ethanol, the favorite of giant US agribusiness and grain farmers. You can put ‘ethanol’ into our search engine and find posts about this with lots of links [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Today, I just want to note a contrast in terms of how we might look at the energy challenges ahead of us. That said, it was really nice to see my long-time hometown of Takoma Park, Maryland, and a group of ‘green citizens’ there, featured in the NY [...]