Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: It’s Halloween, but who needs the extra fright these days? We have plenty to frighten us, and I, for one, am unnerved by what’s in the print media right now. As recently as a year ago, heck, even a few months ago, we could complain that the mainstream [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The NY Times had a quite good article on Saturday about how people of faith in Appalachia are discovering the extent to which the mountains are being ravaged by coal companies through the controversial practice of mountain-topping. We have addressed this issue before in this blog. Mountain-topping involves [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Thomas Friedman really gets it now. In his column today, he calls for the Western allies to unite around the energy and climate change crisis the way it once did around the “Red Scare.” I personally prefer the analogy of the US commitment to go to the moon back [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The article that I link to below was sent by a colleague earlier this month. It is from the marvelous and entertaining Grist blog. Grist covers environmental news with commentary that is often satirical and ironic, will sometimes make you weep, groan, and giggle at the same time. Anyway, with [...]