Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Last evening, the Catholic peace organization, Pax Christi USA, gave its Teacher of Peace 2007 award to Glenmary priest, Father John Rausch. Fr. Rausch is director of the Catholic Committee of Appalachia, an organization with a long history of defending worker rights, economic justice, and the environment in [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: We continue our cautionary tales regarding biofuels. While the Western world goes about looking for crops it can turn into fuels for our cars and trucks, questions continue about the impact the biofuels industry will have on the world’s ability to feed itself. Yesterday, the NY Times had [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Yesterday, we reflected on the ravages of mountaintop removal for coal extraction. Today, I was going over some old emails from various organizations I subscribe to, and I found this moving and enraging talk by Clayton Thomas-Muller, member of the Cree nation in northern Canada, entitled, Stopping the [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: President George Bush and his coal company cronies hate mountains, I guess. They especially hate the inconvenience of mountains that sit annoyingly on top of coal seams. They especially hate Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, Kentucky, and parts of Virginia, rich in coal as they are. Sen. Byrd [...]