Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
It is my job right now to search out the ecological condition of our world. That is the work of this project — that, and then working with all sorts of people and communities to figure out how we live in that, what we are called to do, what our [...]
Tags: climate change, dirty coal, ecological collapse, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, economic collapse, global warming, great lakes compact, mountaintop coal mining, mtr, water wars
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Fire. One of the four elements. A frightening power.
According to ancient Greek philosophers, Water and Earth, two other essential elements, draw us downward and within. They are our bodies, the stuff of which we are made. Within them we plant what nurtures us, within them teeming life dwells.
Fire and Air [...]
Tags: australia wildfires, climate change, drought, earth spirituality, four elements, global warming
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The other day just after I posted, I received an email from one of my brothers with the MSNBC link regarding a discussion among NATO military leaders about the looming threats up there in the Arctic, threats of international conflict, an issue that, frankly, I would not have anticipated emerging [...]
Tags: Arctic Ocean, climate change, global warming, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, melting arctic, millennium ecosystems assessment, NATO, sustainable living
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
[Isn't our world beautiful?!?! How I wish I could have seen this annular eclipse with my own eyes. Now I wonder if there will be future generations of us still on the planet to witness the beauty of our solar system, to gasp in awe. We are in trouble in [...]
Tags: carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, ecological hope, global warming, james hansen, national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa, obama environmental policy