Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Look, I’m as relieved as anyone that Barack Obama is our president and I think he is a thoughtful and serious guy, though we here have always known that he was a centrist, not a true progressive. That said, we have to get serious about challenging him on [...]
Tags: climate change, dirty coal, ecology, ecosystems under threat, global warming, mountaintop coal mining, mtr, obama environmental policy, robert f. kennedy jr
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Regular visitors and subscribers to this blog know I have an intense pet peeve with the practice of blowing up magnificent, ancient Appalachian Mountains to get to coal seams. If you don’t know about the practice yet, or aren’t moved by it yet, click on our Resources tab [...]
Tags: Appalachian Mountains, clean water act, clean water protection act, mountaintop coal mining, mountaintop removal
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: It is my job right now to search out the ecological condition of our world. That is the work of this project — that, and then working with all sorts of people and communities to figure out how we live in that, what we are called to do, [...]
Tags: climate change, dirty coal, ecological collapse, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, economic collapse, global warming, great lakes compact, mountaintop coal mining, mtr, water wars