Posted August 8th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: What would your Mother say if you walked through her house disposing of trash on the floors and furniture, leaving your body waste in her sinks and shower stalls, filling it with clutter, making an unhealthy mess of the place, disease and germs feasting on your waste, fouling [...]
Tags: consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, environmental disasters, greenhouse gas emissions
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 [...]
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 life and [...]
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, [...]
Tags: deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, greenhouse gas emissions, inspiration and reflection