Posted March 19th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [Good friends - this is a longer-than-usual post. Think of it as added reflection for this sacred week.] I want to talk a bit about the hard times coming, how important it will be for us to prepare — not just in material terms, but also, and perhaps [...]
Tags: climate change, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, environmental disasters, greenhouse gas emissions, inspiration and reflection, justice, population growth
Posted March 9th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Right? It’s hard not to describe what developers often do to trees as a form of hatred, utter disregard, a complete detachment from any relationship with nature — just a quick track to the bottom line, the quick buck, the profit margin. So my heart sank as I [...]
Tags: consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, inspiration and reflection, justice, population growth
Posted March 5th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Longish post – couldn’t help myself. So, I go away a few days and now there is so much to talk about. I have many articles strewn all around me, indications of the world of hurt impacting so many people right now. Amidst all the election hoopla, lots [...]
Tags: deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, fossil fuel dependency, greenhouse gas emissions, justice, population growth, renewable fuels
Posted February 18th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today form Margaret Swedish: [WARNING: a longish post] Visitors to this blog know that we are not big fans of ethanol, and most especially corn ethanol, the favorite of giant US agribusiness and grain farmers. You can put ‘ethanol’ into our search engine and find posts about this with lots of links [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, earth spirituality, ecological hope, fossil fuel dependency, greenhouse gas emissions, justice, population growth, renewable fuels