Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [This post is longer than usual but stuff I've been thinking about a lot lately. I hope you will take time to read it, comment, and share it with others. And then please consider a donation to keep this project moving along.] Are we really coming to the [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The front page of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Sunday front section was nearly covered by a stunning photograph that made me gasp with horror. It’s a picture of the Empire Mine, an iron ore mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Check it out here. As the headline reads (talk [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I didn’t make up that headline. I know I am often grim, but this one is not mine. However, it is about a story that backs up what I try to communicate in some of my speaking and writing and retreat work: The world is changing. We have [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I often tell people not to look to hope for that other thing, optimism. And don’t look to me for optimism. The trends are not looking good for us in terms of a future without a lot of suffering, without the necessity of huge choices carrying enormous significance, [...]