Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: It’s a bold move in today’s economy, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the German government are committed to bringing an end to nuclear energy in Germany. In an announcement yesterday, May 30, the government said it will close all its nuclear plants by 2022. The announcement follows [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [Action ends: see below for update] For four days, Wendell Berry and 13 others have been holed up in the Frankfort office of KY Gov. Steve Beshear demanding an end to mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR). They refuse to leave until he commits to ending the practice of [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today form Margaret Swedish: On Sunday I offered a presentation for a conference organized by Milwaukee’s Interfaith Earth Network. The title of the conference: “Faith Encounters the Energy Crisis: Transitioning to Reduced Energy Consumption.” By now, many folks know I always come armed with a lot of grim news — but also [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Oil is a finite resource. We don’t act like it. We pretty much focus on its price and its location as the problems we need to deal with, but there is this other reality we don’t like to admit: the biggest oil problem confronting us in the not-so-long [...]