Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: In my last post, I wrote about goodness and how we will know when the culture is arriving there – when we value human life and dignity, when we value the life-giving eco-community in which we are embedded, more than we value affluence, acquisition of things we don’t [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Just a reminder: fostering ecological hope is not about fostering false hope about our situation on the planet right now. It is not about fostering denial or trying to assure us that life can go on as it is without a lot of inconvenience or, to be honest, [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [Friends and Visitors: just a warning that this is a longish post, not quick reading. I hope you will ponder this reflection and share your thoughts with us.] We are not a humble nation, and we are certainly not used to the idea that U.S. America may not [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: On the day after Christmas in 2004, millions of us sat glued to our TV screens as we watched the horror left by the great tsunami unfold in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and elsewhere. It was one of those great tragedies the magnitude of which the mind and [...]