Posts Tagged ‘greenhouse gases’

Turning our sights to where change really happens

Posted December 18th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 0 Comments

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 [...]

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It could not be more serious…

Posted August 22nd, 2009 in Blog, Featured 0 Comments

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 [...]

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If you thought climate crisis a future event…

Posted July 31st, 2009 in Blog, Featured 1 Comment

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 [...]

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EPA considers regulating CO2 emissions: what a difference an election makes…

Posted February 17th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 0 Comments

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 [...]

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