Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
We are in a new world. Yesterday’s drama in Washington and on Wall Street was mesmerizing, wasn’t it? When one is witnessing unprecedented events which outcomes are mostly unpredictable, and when nothing works the way it used to — not money or power — then you know that when people say we [...]
Tags: American Dream, depleting the planet, global climate change, national debt, Rosh haShanah, Tel Shemesh, wall street collapse, Yom Kippur
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
What an amazing week in this country — with more drama to come. Won’t it be interesting to see what the markets do on Monday. You feel the meltdown in the air, the comeuppance for these years of profligate spending and profit-making, all based on credit, meaning debt.
That’s been us [...]
Tags: carbon emissions, climate change, earth spirituality, global warming, intergovernmental panel on climate change, ipcc, wall street collapse, white house council on environmental quality
Monday, September 22, 2008:
Now we begin a new journey here, a journey through the chaos and crises of our times to an articulation of a spirituality of ecological hope. We will have to reach deep down for that, down to the heart, the heart of the world, the heart of the human.
Today, markets, candidates, members of [...]
Tags: earth story, ecological economics, government bailout, treasury secretary henry paulson, wall street collapse