Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Friends, I wanted to share something as we move into the Memorial Day weekend. Lacking the time for a thoughtful essay before the weekend begins, I then came upon an article referenced in a post on Andrew Revkin’s DotEarth blog. It appeared in the journal, The Economist, not [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Yesterday evening I had the privilege to present to a graduate class at Marquette University. The class is called, ‘Models of Sustainability,’ taught/led by Dr. Robert Pavlik, Ph.D. Dr. Pavlik is assistant director of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning in the College of Education at Marquette. [...]
This year began with more disturbing news about our mounting ecological crisis, with a new political dynamic in Washington DC, and some exciting new possibilities for this project. So here’s the news update: First of all, our world will cross another population threshold this year. In 2011 we will surpass the 7 billion mark, adding [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: This morning I received an email from a friend and colleague taking issue with one sentence from my previous post. In writing about how we are not prepared to address our multiple ecological crises, I note that one reason is this: “We aren’t making good decisions about any [...]