Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Well, friends, I’m going to be offline for about 9 days, time for reconnecting and replenishing. But I wanted to share some thoughts here and challenge us to do some radical new thinking about our predicament. Tomorrow ESPN will have a one hour special built around LeBron James’ [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Well, Congress will be teeing off in the great cap-and-trade debate this week (see also, Climate Bill Seeks a Broad Coalition), with many Democrats struggling to get meaningful carbon dioxide reductions written into law, while Dems from big fossil fuel producing states join with Republicans to struggle for [...]
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