Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: As we noted in our Monday post, we are needing to adjust to living in a world in which there will be shocks upon shocks, unsettling catastrophes, sudden shifts in our reality – to go along with the steady pace of change that defines our unfolding global reality [...]
Tags: 2003 northeast blackout, earth regeneration, ecology and community, ecology and spirituality, Eyjafjallajokull, gulf of mexico oil spill, iceland volcano, stock market plunges 1000 points, sustainability
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Okay, here’ some good news from the economic crisis — we’re throwing away less trash. Landfills are facing economic stress. This is a good thing, and we hope it lasts — also that anyone laid off from jobs at landfills can get a another job. This story was [...]
Tags: biocapacity, culture of consumption, economic crisis, economies of growth, landfills, limits to growth, logic of capitalism, sustainability, trash, waste levels in united states
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: With all the bad news, today I want to celebrate Spring — because it surely is coming. We bask in glorious sunshine and warmer temps today, knowing that March still has plenty of roar left in it. It is a month of great weather contrasts in this part [...]
Tags: earth cycles of life, earth spirituality, gaia, ides of march, lake michigan, south shore park, spring on lake michigan, sustainability
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: [LOOK FOR THE FIRST EDITION OF OUR ONLINE ZINE EARLY NEXT WEEK!] Many people are talking about how the new administration coming to Washington in January presents a real opportunity to gets some things done. Yesterday saw a real positive sign in the ousting of Rep. John Dingell [...]
Tags: balance of life, bottled water, bounty of earth, ecological hope, energy policy, industrial livestock farming, reinvent human, Rep. Henry Waxman, Rep. John Dingell, sustainability, thanksgiving