Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Look, I’m as relieved as anyone that Barack Obama is our president and I think he is a thoughtful and serious guy, though we here have always known that he was a centrist, not a true progressive. That said, we have to get serious about challenging him on [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: First of all, an apology for not posting for a week to all you fans who have missed us! I have been in a very intense family time, as we go through an enormous transition of letting go our family home 0f 61 years. Some readers remember that [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: If you want, and in a hurry. If you want a liveable world, if you want your kids to grow up not in catastrophe but rather in difficulty that contains hope for a future, live differently – –if you want, as we said in our previous post, and [...]
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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 [...]
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