Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: We all know this. I imagine there are few people who, when questioned, would not acknowledged that everything is somehow connected to everything else. What we do has an impact. What you do has an impact on me and vice versa, always and forever, an inescapable truth about [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: So you probably already heard this, that 2010 tied with 2005 for the warmest year on record globally, and broke records for the wettest. There is certainly some connection in that, really. A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, while warmer, moister air holds more energy for storm systems. [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: War is the great Anti-Hope. And we have more than enough of that in the world. Did we need more, or bigger? Will that finally gives us the illusion of security in a very volatile world? Because illusion is all it will give us — like the death [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: We insist often here that it is possible to live differently. We are not bereft of ideas for how to get ourselves out of this industrial/post-industrial mess we have made and to begin to create a new way of life that puts the human back into balance with [...]