Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: So Sen. Russ Feingold is in a supposedly tight race. I’m not able to take sides in elections in the context of this project, but I do think it important to educate on what candidates are saying. Feingold believes we must act now to address climate change. His [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [NOTE: this will be my only post this week. Next post next Monday.] In the past couple of weeks in just two incidents, we have lost 40 lives to the drilling and mining of fossil fuels. Others are injured, scarred for life, traumatized by sudden, devastating explosions from [...]
[FLASH - On March 31 Amy Goodman broadcast an interview on the topic of mountaintop removal coal mining for Democracy NOW! The timing is critical. Scroll down our home page to view the video.] Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: What an unhappy surprise!! This one seems to have blindsided just about everyone. “Drill, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The National Academy of Sciences [NAS] just released a study showing that the environmental costs in the US as a result of the burning of fossil fuels is some $120 billion a year. The main cause is air pollution leading to premature deaths. Okay, the dollar figure is [...]