Fostering Ecological Hope This week from Margaret Swedish: We’re not posting much over the holidays, but I wanted to send a little reflection as we mark this artificial measure of time – end of a year, end of a decade. …a decade with some pretty terrible horrors within it. I remember like yesterday my train [...]
Tags: 9/11, cancer epidemic, ecological hope, ecosystem collapse, happy new year, human population stresses, lost habitats, new creation, warmest decade on record
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: A new study indicates that the Colorado River will suffer such losses from climate change and human demand that by 2057 western states could lose their primary water source. As the West warms, a drier Colorado River system could see as much as a one-in-two chance of fully [...]
Tags: american way of life, california dream, choose life, colorado river, earth spirituality, ecological economics, ecological hope, gospel of luke, lake powell, new creation, steady state economics, western water supply threatened 2057
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Sorry for going a week without a post. I am at the deadline for a big project, which I will tell you about soon, and have had trouble keeping up with the site. And while that is still true today, this news that came by way of Facebook [...]
Tags: carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, climate crisis, copenhagen climate change conference, ecological hope, el nino, global warming, greenhouse gases, intergovernmental panel on climate change, la nina, new creation
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [This will be my only post this week. I will be attending Imago's EarthSpirit Rising gathering this weekend. More on that next week.] Look, what is being debated in Congress matters a lot — legislation about our energy future, how to tackle global warming, mind-busting deficits looming in [...]
Tags: consumer society, earth spirituality, ecological hope, live simply, new creation, spirituality of ecological hope