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 [...]
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 [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: We are in an amazing time. Many of our problems are quite grave. In the midst of that, this resurgence of hope. Check out the one-minute YouTube video on our home page. It will make you feel really good — a welcome from the world to Obama. It’s [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: We bask in a new political moment here in the U.S. We bask in a new moment — for a moment. Because we know how difficult the days ahead will be. President-Elect Barack Obama, to our relief, did not take a triumphant tone in his victory speech. The [...]