Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Wow, the climate in the body politic is really getting ugly, isn’t it? So many disturbing signs that we do not have what we need in terms of civil discourse to even think seriously about our many crises, much less come up with ways to address them. I [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: So Sen. Russ Feingold is in a supposedly tight race. I’m not able to take sides in elections in the context of this project, but I do think it important to educate on what candidates are saying. Feingold believes we must act now to address climate change. His [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: NOAA has reported that, globally, the first 6 months of this year were the hottest Jan.-June period ever recorded. Arizonans are dealing with a deadly combination of high temps and high humidity (triple digit temps, dew points around 60), the mid-Atlantic is sweltering, many areas are dry as [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [Don't miss our home page features below the blog post] Like any death, or fatal diagnosis, there comes the time of acceptance, the moment when it really sinks in. It is often accompanied by deep sorrow and depression. You can feel that coming in regard to the Deepwater [...]