Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Back to posting for a while, and here we are with the big news still focused on the Gulf of Mexico. If you view the live BP stream on the Home page, you see this startling thing – no oil gushing, that steady eruption that has become iconic [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Well, friends, I’m going to be offline for about 9 days, time for reconnecting and replenishing. But I wanted to share some thoughts here and challenge us to do some radical new thinking about our predicament. Tomorrow ESPN will have a one hour special built around LeBron James’ [...]
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Well, Friends, there is a lot to talk about here at our project, lots of catching up to do and things to tell you about. When I returned to my home town of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2 1/2 years ago, after 26 years in the DC area, the question for me was whether or not this [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Well, friends, thousands and thousands of folks are preparing themselves for “The Great Disappointment” in Copenhagen. In the end, world leaders may make some substantive pledges, and we emphasize the word pledges, to begin, that is, begin, making reductions in CO2 emissions — not much to start with, [...]
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