Posted September 22nd, 2006 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The other day, Thomas Friedman wrote another Op-Ed regarding ethanol [with apologies to the NY Times, but they make you pay to view this article unless you are a subscriber, so I have copied it at the end of this post]. This time, it was about the dumbness [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, ecological overshoot, environmental disasters, fossil fuel dependency, renewable fuels
Posted September 21st, 2006 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Well, global warming and climate change filled page two of the NY Times business section today. I wanted to make note of that — the business section — though these items deserve more prominence than that. Still, it says something important — the business community is ahead of [...]
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Posted September 19th, 2006 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Al Gore is determined to save the planet. In a speech yesterday, he began to lay out a plan for reducing the carbon emissions that are leading to the heating of the planet, global warming that threatens the future of civilizations around the world. He also gave a [...]
Tags: climate change, consumer culture, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, environmental disasters, fossil fuel dependency, renewable fuels
Posted September 16th, 2006 in
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: More evidence of the Bush administration going in the wrong direction in terms of energy, now the Dept. of Energy wants to cut the paltry amount of government funding for geothermal and hydropower. This is stupid, but consistent. This one can be fought on the Congressional level. Hint, [...]
Tags: climate change, deep ecology, earth spirituality, ecological hope, fossil fuel dependency, renewable fuels