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 [...]
Tags: Appalachian Mountains, Catholic Bishops of Appalachia, earth spirituality, ilovemountains.org, mountaintop removal coal mining, mtr, sacred earth
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 [...]
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:
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 [...]
Tags: climate change, dirty coal, ecological collapse, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, economic collapse, global warming, great lakes compact, mountaintop coal mining, mtr, water wars