Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Some weather we’re having, right? Okay, we repeat the less-than-reassuring mantra one more time: weather is not the same as climate. A few extreme weather events prove little in regard to how global warming may be impacting global climate patterns. Still, this is looking pretty troubling. As one [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]