Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
This is what happens when the human attempts to dominate, control and manipulate the natural world with hubris and pride:
New Mexico City Could Become a Sinkhole — brought to you by the oil drilling industry. Gee, we’re sorry.
Unusual early heavy snow fall is result of Chinese government seeding clouds. Oops, [...]
Tags: china seeding clouds, consumerism and ecology, drug resistant superbugs, earth spirituality, earthweek, freshwater fish mercury contamination, human hubris, industrial livestock agriculture, new mexico sinkhole, overuse of antibiotics, plasma screens
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
[This is a guest post from Dr. Richard Schwartz, a founder of Jewish Vegetarians of North America. We don't usually promote films as blog posts, but we consider the expansion of industrial livestock agriculture to be one of the biggest threats to the well-being of the planet. In addition, [...]
Tags: A Sacred Duty, climate change, Dr. Richard Schwartz, factory farm, global warming, goveg.com, industrial livestock agriculture, james hansen, jewish vegetarians of north america, jvna
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I hope we save newspapers. They are crucial as a lens to our world.
So, this morning, on the front page of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, we were confronted with one of those contrasts that clarifies the larger picture. We face choices in how we are going to live on the [...]
Tags: A Sacred Duty, dan egan, earth spirituality, ecological hope, great lakes ballast, industrial livestock agriculture, lee berquist, methane and global warming, rosendale dairy farm, vegetarianism and ecology
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Sums up the daily news, daily. Always this mixture of good news and bad news, news to scare us to death about our future, signs of hope right in the midst of it, evidence of the ‘great turning.’
Will we turn in time?
Ecological grief and ecological hope – that’s where we [...]
Tags: brown pelicans dying, coal ash spill, Dr. Richard H. Schwartz, earth spirituality, ecological grief, ecological hope, gaia, great turning, industrial livestock agriculture, tva, vegetarian kids, widow's creek fossil plant