Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Yesterday’s juxtaposition of two articles in the NY Times was distressing and revealing, buried on page 13, two headlines side-by-side:
Environment Blamed in Western Tree Deaths, by Mireya Navarro.
Environmental Issues Slide in Poll of Public’s Concerns, by one of my favorite writers, Andrew Revkin.
We have a problem. The Pew Research [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
[LONG POST AGAIN. I promise to shorten them from here on out!]
Okay, we get going again now in the new year. And, friends, we face some pretty stark choices, choices that need to be made immediately if we are going to reverse the course we are on — you know, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
[Warning: this post is a bit on the long side. But please read on through, email it to friends and networks, copy it and share it in discussion and reflection groups. We have got to relearn how to live on this precious planet!]
I am preoccupied now with two stories. I [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
In one of the more promising moves from Pres-elect Obama on the climate crisis, tomorrow he will announce that Prof. John P. Holdren is to become the presidential science advisor. Holdren, whom we much admire here, is a physicist and Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government [...]