Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
How’s that title for a little alliteration? Try to say it ten times real fast.
Okay, but seriously: sometimes it feels like my main job here is to grab up pieces of the picture, fragments that come from this source and that, and then put them together into a frame that [...]
Tags: climate change, coal fired power plant, earth spirituality, energy use, environmental refugees, global warming, good samaritan, greenhouse gas emissions, humanitarian disasters, hurricane season, intergovernmental panel on climate change, oxfam america
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Dealing with a deadline for a project, so I haven’t had time to post yet this week. While I work through that, however, I still follow the significant news regarding our ecological predicament. So I just want to cite some articles that, gathered together, remind us of the fact that [...]
Tags: california groundwater, climate change, colorado river, draining aquifer, drought, global warming, receding northern lakes, western drought
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Breathtaking, these scenes of the fires outside Santa Barbara. Mesmerizing. Awe-striking. Leaves me speechless, without words — and yet I attempt the words, because that is what I do. I write. I give presentations. I talk — to and with others. I try to find words, images, that express what [...]
Tags: california dream, climate change, complex basin fire, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, faith economy ecology, finding beauty in a broken world, global warming, Jesusita fire, living beyond the end of the world, Santa Barbara wildfires, southwest drought, terry tempest williams
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
So I’m headed back from the Faith, Economy, Ecology Forum in DC and checking my email. Someone sends this: Climate chaos predicted by CO2 study: World will have exceeded 2050 safe carbon emissions limit by 2020, scientists say, an article in the UK’s The Independent. So much for my relaxing [...]
Tags: carbon budget, carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, earth spirituality, faith economy ecology, global warming