Posted February 13th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Does this kind of information have an impact — that the water source for 22 million people out West is rapidly disappearing? A new study shows that that’s exactly what could happen — that as soon as 2021, the fake, human-created Lake Mead, reservoir and water source for [...]
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Posted February 6th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: And then there are the moments when we cannot help but notice that Nature is more powerful than us, that we humans remain subject to its impressive forces. What a rampage across the eastern half of this country! In the Southeast, it includes tragedy, the destructive power of [...]
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Posted February 1st, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: A quick post to cite an article from this morning’s Washington Post front page. As if we didn’t know this already, a new study shows that the snowpack in the western mountains of the U.S. is diminishing and that the reason is global warming — and that this [...]
Tags: climate change, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, greenhouse gas emissions, inspiration and reflection, population growth
Posted January 19th, 2008 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: As our economy begins to unravel and the hurt sinks in, it might be a good time to ponder the craziness of the economic system that creates this kind of crisis — where investors pour money into fake economies that eventually crash, taking an enormous toll on lives [...]
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