Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Let me just say this one more time because we need to understand this: as the Earth warms, the atmosphere holds more energy. That is one of the things that warm air does. It’s why thunderstorms are more prevalent on a hot humid summer day. As global warming [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I have so much on my mind today. The drivers behind all these dramatic changes in our world — changing climate, collapsing economies, millions of newly unemployed, millions of home foreclosures, ecosystem depletion, changes in behaviors of species, of flora and fauna, rapid population growth, overconsumption, and on [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [This is a guest post from Dr. Richard Schwartz, a founder of Jewish Vegetarians of North America. We don't usually promote films as blog posts, but we consider the expansion of industrial livestock agriculture to be one of the biggest threats to the well-being of the planet. In [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: New Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson has reversed a decree by the outgoing Bush administration, saying the EPA will once again consider regulating carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants as a form of air pollution under the Clean Air Act (see this Wash. Post article). Keep in [...]