Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: With all the bad news, today I want to celebrate Spring — because it surely is coming. We bask in glorious sunshine and warmer temps today, knowing that March still has plenty of roar left in it. It is a month of great weather contrasts in this part [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The end of the infinite, or the end of the capitalist myth of the infinite — infinitely expanding economies, infinitely expanding wealth generation, infinitely expanding consumption of goods, infinitely expanding production of those goods… Oops. We just crashed into the wall. Never mind. The thing about circles and [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Sums up the daily news, daily. Always this mixture of good news and bad news, news to scare us to death about our future, signs of hope right in the midst of it, evidence of the ‘great turning.’ Will we turn in time? Ecological grief and ecological hope [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [WARNING: this is a longish post, a meditation, if you will. I welcome your comments.] Can the economic crisis be perceived as an opportunity to change how we live? Of course it can. And whether one sees that as scary, or with relief, or with an “about time,” [...]