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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [I will be away from my computer for a few days. Next post: June 11.] Just what I needed this week. After viewing ABC’s special, Earth 2100, I badly needed a jolt of hope. It’s not that I don’t agree with the bleak portrayal of life in this [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: So, spring is in full flourishing mode and, if you care about what you eat, or if you love the soil, how could you not be thinking about farming, about farmers’ markets, about vegetable gardens and the feel, smell, and taste of a warm tomato picked ripe under [...]
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