Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: NOAA has reported that, globally, the first 6 months of this year were the hottest Jan.-June period ever recorded. Arizonans are dealing with a deadly combination of high temps and high humidity (triple digit temps, dew points around 60), the mid-Atlantic is sweltering, many areas are dry as [...]
[scroll down homepage to view sobering video from Greenpeace] Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: We insist over and over again that hope must be based in reality or else it is false. When we speak of ecological hope, we speak of something urgent and difficult – we must face the extent of the [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Bill and Margaret Swedish: How do you like El Niño so far? Wild isn’t it, the volumes of water falling over this country, some of it in monumental snowstorms. El Niño comes and goes, and is part of what creates weather across the planet. But as the atmosphere and oceans [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Okay, holidays over, back to work. I know so many people reluctant to go back to their jobs and stresses, and that already says something about our world, right? It’s tough out there. I always hate being the purveyor of bad news, but I was really struck by [...]