Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Well, friends, thousands and thousands of folks are preparing themselves for “The Great Disappointment” in Copenhagen. In the end, world leaders may make some substantive pledges, and we emphasize the word pledges, to begin, that is, begin, making reductions in CO2 emissions — not much to start with, but more [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Who needs bad news on a late summer weekend? It is deliciously cool here along Lake Michigan, like early October. Summer will be back, but this brief interlude is one of those moments that reminds us of seasonal changes to come, that embedded within this August cool spell is anticipation [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Sorry for going a week without a post. I am at the deadline for a big project, which I will tell you about soon, and have had trouble keeping up with the site. And while that is still true today, this news that came by way of Facebook compels me [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
New Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson has reversed a decree by the outgoing Bush administration, saying the EPA will once again consider regulating carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants as a form of air pollution under the Clean Air Act (see this Wash. Post article).
Keep in mind – she [...]