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 [...]
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: So it turns out that the fossil fuel industry-funded science studies looking at the impact of carbon dioxide emissions on climate were suppressed. Turns out that these studies pretty much indicated the same results as those done by the thousands upon thousands of independent scientists — that human-induced [...]
Tags: carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, ecological crisis, global climate coalition, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, moral implications of climate change, suppress climate science, unsustainable way of life
Posted September 19th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Okay, one last post before we launch the new website on Monday. Not to worry, the blog will still be there. Nothing lost. But now it will be one of a few features on the site, along with a new online magazine, news features, suggestions for things we [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, earth spirituality, ecological hope, fossil fuel dependency, greenhouse gas emissions
Posted August 20th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [WARNING: a fairly longish post.] High gas prices have become a central election issue, and some politicians are playing a dangerous game with it. Promising less expensive oil through off-shore drilling and, once again, endless supply if we just keep on drilling is a deception of vast proportions. [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecology of war and peace, fossil fuel dependency, greenhouse gas emissions, justice