Posts Tagged ‘mtr’

“We’ve destroyed the very place that we love” – Tennessee coal miner

Posted July 23rd, 2009 in Blog, Featured 0 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Okay, regular readers and visitors know how we feel about mountaintop removal coal mining.
We don’t like it.  It must stop.  It must stop NOW!
I come back to this over and over: first, because we have to stop living off this destruction, we must break our cheap coal/cheap energy habit by [...]

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Obama reality check

Posted July 7th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 3 Comments

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 some of his [...]

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I’m worried about big things

Posted February 15th, 2009 in Blog, Featured 0 Comments

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, what our [...]

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