Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Found a special report in the Pulse section of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel this morning regarding the imminent flooding of our coastal communities because of rising sea levels. The expected rise by the end of the century is at least one meter, a bit over three feet. These articles [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The NY Times got it right today regarding ethanol, editorializing about its real costs “ to the environment and to the global food supply. It’s expensive to produce, they write, it distorts agricultural production, drives up the price of food across the globe leading to social unrest, damages [...]
Fostering Ecologicl Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Yesterday, oil prices broke a threshold, ending the day above $80 per barrel, a record. Markets were reacting to the surprise hurricane that hit Texas and some of the oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Humberto indeed raised eyebrows among scientists. The storm went from a tropical [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Last evening, the Catholic peace organization, Pax Christi USA, gave its Teacher of Peace 2007 award to Glenmary priest, Father John Rausch. Fr. Rausch is director of the Catholic Committee of Appalachia, an organization with a long history of defending worker rights, economic justice, and the environment in [...]