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 tornadoes, surely [...]
Tags: climate change, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, inspiration and reflection, population growth
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 is a result [...]
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 and the [...]
Tags: consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, inspiration and reflection, justice, population growth
Posted November 30th, 2007 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The world is ready for big lifestyle changes in response to the human warming of the planet — not everyone, but a large majority of us, this according to the BBC.
This is very good news. But it makes all the more woeful the lack of leadership from political, religious, [...]
Tags: climate change, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, ecology of war and peace, fossil fuel dependency, greenhouse gas emissions, inspiration and reflection, justice, population growth