Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: So what do climate change, rising risk of heart disease, and Jimmy Carter’s concerns about racism embedded in the attacks on Prez Obama all have in common? Yesterday’s front page of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had these two headlines: Warming in Wisconsin: A rise in average annual temperatures [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Sometimes when probing the newspapers, I run into something that jumps off the page at me, that reveals something about what is wrong with us, how we have gotten ourselves into multiple crises, both ecological and economic, until now we don’t have a clue how to get ourselves [...]
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