Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Back from a week in New England. It was a great trip — met many folks who care about the same things we do. New England is very sensitive to things like global warming. Here it was, typical late March — cold nights, cool-ish days, the old snow [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Well, I guess the Bush administration is a bit on the defensive regarding global warming and climate change since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its dire report on the extent and acceleration of warming as a result of the human spewing of greenhouse gases (GHGs) [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [This is a longish reflection today -- just a warning. But I really wanted to share these thoughts with you on this important national holiday.] On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I think about the legacy of long political, principled, social, and cultural struggle, of dedicated and [...]
Fostering Ecogical Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I guess we just have to keep putting out the bad news, the results of more and more studies, in the hope that this news eventually reaches critical mass in the consciousness of the nation. Here’s one: the oceans are in big trouble. The rising CO2 levels are [...]