Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The weather news has been harsh all year long in many parts of our world. This country has seen some bad stuff, no? Floods, drought, tornadoes, scorching heat waves, wildfires. The other night, in anticipation of the cold front breaking the back of our heat wave, we had [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I will be away from my computer for a few days, so I wanted to leave on the home page here something reflective of this magical time of year in the Midwest. Forget for a moment that Southern Wisconsin, from the Mississippi to Lake Michigan, is suffering under [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Yesterday I went for a viewing of “Waterlife: The Story of the Last Great Fresh Water Supply on Earth.” It was hard to get out of my seat when it was over – 90 mins of unrelentingly bleak news about the Great Lakes, one of the world’s [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: With all the bad news, today I want to celebrate Spring — because it surely is coming. We bask in glorious sunshine and warmer temps today, knowing that March still has plenty of roar left in it. It is a month of great weather contrasts in this part [...]