Posted August 5th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
So, then, why don’t we wake up?
It’s like those alarm clocks that keep getting louder and louder the more they are ignored. When they annoy us, we hit the button, but a few minutes later, it starts all over again.
Our ecological crisis. Alarms going off all over [...]
Tags: climate change, earth spirituality, ecological hope, greenhouse gas emissions, renewable fuels
Posted June 28th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Have you seen the fires at Big Sur? CNN has been reporting them all day. I’m headed out that way in a couple of weeks. Was really looking forward to it, too. I have been along the Pacific Coast highway a couple of times in my [...]
Tags: climate change, earth spirituality, ecological hope, greenhouse gas emissions, inspiration and reflection
Posted June 24th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Threatened, endangered, abused, battered, exploited, degraded — all those things, yes.
But also – so beautiful, this planet of ours.
My niece sent me this photo — a rainbow over the Chicago lake shore at Lincoln Park:
Wow, no? It’s a “wow!” for sure.
So much difficult news, so many concerns I could [...]
Tags: deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, greenhouse gas emissions, inspiration and reflection
Posted June 20th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
One person reading my book commented that what I’m saying sounds like, “The sky is falling, the sky is falling!! Except that it’s really falling.”
That’s how some see the scenario laid out in the book (Living Beyond the ‘End of the World’) in the context of this year’s weather disasters, [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, greenhouse gas emissions, inspiration and reflection