Posted December 18th, 2007 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Congress is about to have the U.S. embark on a foolhardy alternative fuel journey, because it is much easier to try to replace oil in our engines and keep the economy slumping along than it is to alter the logic of production based on consumption of oil, whatever [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, earth spirituality, ecological hope, fossil fuel dependency, justice, renewable fuels
Posted December 5th, 2007 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: We learn this as children — we are responsible for our actions. When they have bad consequences, conscience tells us that we must take responsibility for that. And then there are the rich nations of the world… There are countries that have benefited from pollution, and we are [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, earth spirituality, ecological hope, fossil fuel dependency, greenhouse gas emissions, justice
Posted November 30th, 2007 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The world is ready for big lifestyle changes in response to the human warming of the planet — not everyone, but a large majority of us, this according to the BBC. This is very good news. But it makes all the more woeful the lack of leadership from [...]
Tags: climate change, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, ecology of war and peace, fossil fuel dependency, greenhouse gas emissions, inspiration and reflection, justice, population growth
Posted November 28th, 2007 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: “We are seeing a transfer of wealth of historic dimensions.” That’s one change. It has been coming for some time now, riding the wave of escalating oil prices. Those petrodollars have to go somewhere, after all. Excess wealth must be invested somewhere. When wealth shifts, so does power. [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, fossil fuel dependency, inspiration and reflection, justice, population growth