Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [NOTE: I'm away a few days and won't post again until next Tuesday.] It’s that incapacity to feel any connection with our fellow creatures, with Nature, to have any integrity, any sense at all, about the significance of our relationships with the natural world, that seems so scary [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Still full of yesterday’s thoughts, I want to add this post for our weekend reflection. Earth Day approaches, a good time to ponder the true nature of our relationship with our planet. Spirituality encompasses many things. It is an orientation to life, an inner attitude that determines our [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [Good friends - this is a longer-than-usual post. Think of it as added reflection for this sacred week.] I want to talk a bit about the hard times coming, how important it will be for us to prepare — not just in material terms, but also, and perhaps [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The world must bring carbon emissions down to near zero to keep temperatures from rising further… …if global emissions continue on a ‘business as usual’ path for the rest of the century, the Earth will warm by 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100. If emissions do not drop to [...]