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 [...]
Tags: carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, climate crisis, copenhagen climate change conference, ecological hope, el nino, global warming, greenhouse gases, intergovernmental panel on climate change, la nina, new creation
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
How’s that title for a little alliteration? Try to say it ten times real fast.
Okay, but seriously: sometimes it feels like my main job here is to grab up pieces of the picture, fragments that come from this source and that, and then put them together into a frame that [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Let me just say this one more time because we need to understand this: as the Earth warms, the atmosphere holds more energy. That is one of the things that warm air does. It’s why thunderstorms are more prevalent on a hot humid summer day. As global warming continues, there [...]
Tags: climate change, extreme weather, Fargo floods, global warming, intergovernmental panel on climate change, james hansen, mitigation and adaptation, national weather service, red river flood, wisconsin renewable energy summit
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I have so much on my mind today. The drivers behind all these dramatic changes in our world — changing climate, collapsing economies, millions of newly unemployed, millions of home foreclosures, ecosystem depletion, changes in behaviors of species, of flora and fauna, rapid population growth, overconsumption, and on and on [...]
Tags: andrew revkin, climate change, dr. george stone, earth spirituality, ecological hope, global warming, heartland institute, interfaith conference of greater milwaukee, intergovernmental panel on climate change, james hansen, matc, united nations climate change conference