Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [Care about what you read here? Help support this project of ecological hope with a tax deductible donation. Stay tuned for news of our 2012 project priorities coming later this week!] What are we to make of the UN climate conference in Durban? It started out looking like [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: First question for this post: should the word ‘hope’ still be in the title of this project? I’m not kidding: I really want your thoughts on that. Given the long string of ecological disasters and diminishments in recent years, given our cultural incapacity to address the causes which [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I hate being terrified without company, so thought I’d share. A few days ago, my brother, who teaches at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (the one who wrote on the Laws of Thermodynamics for this website), sent me a link to an article at MSNBC describing a new [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: No, no more, no more this business about ‘clean coal.’ Coal-powered energy is brought to you at the cost of human lives and vast ecological destruction. This issue is not just about CO2, though coal is the largest single source of CO2 emissions and that must end. But [...]