Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Please forgive the silence. Last week was very busy and I didn’t get a chance to do a thoughtful post — and I don’t like to post if it is not thoughtful. Really hurting… yes, we are. The Philippines, American Samoa, Indonesia… there in those places are our [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: In my book, Living Beyond the ‘End of the World,’ a Spirituality of Hope, I focus a chapter on the growing links between our ecological crises and the threat of wars and other forms of social violence. If we think oil has something to do with going to [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Breathtaking, these scenes of the fires outside Santa Barbara. Mesmerizing. Awe-striking. Leaves me speechless, without words — and yet I attempt the words, because that is what I do. I write. I give presentations. I talk — to and with others. I try to find words, images, that [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Yesterday’s juxtaposition of two articles in the NY Times was distressing and revealing, buried on page 13, two headlines side-by-side: Environment Blamed in Western Tree Deaths, by Mireya Navarro. Environmental Issues Slide in Poll of Public’s Concerns, by one of my favorite writers, Andrew Revkin. We have a [...]