Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: As we wrote last time, changing a culture ain’t easy, but it needs to be done. While political leaders (or anti-leaders) continue pushing the agenda of economic growth to get us back on track to making the American Dream available to everyone – if they just work hard [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Have you seen Venus and the crescent moon of the past 2 nights?! I gasped out loud last evening just after sunset when the clouds parted and revealed these magnificent lanterns in the early night sky following each other to the horizon. Now Jupiter is high in the [...]
Well, okay, not the end of the world. Mayans smile on we poor westerners who interpret their calendar – which indicates that we are transitioning from one era into the other – to mean that next year is some sort of apocalyptic end times. But you know, thinking of the political year coming (and if [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I awoke today to two disturbing front page headlines: State median income plummets, and Poverty numbers spike in Milwaukee. The news is appalling as more people in my city and state fall into a the growing mire of unemployment, home foreclosure, declining neighborhoods, a seemingly intractable path of [...]