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Showing posts with label hope mongers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hope mongers. Show all posts
19 May 2019

Faith Rather Than Hope

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We "countryfolk" are housesitting for friends and getting an extended "city fix," which is always fascinating. City stre...
16 December 2018

When You're Depleted and Defeated, Turn to Leonard Cohen and "Ring the Bells that Still Can Ring"

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The climate talks (COP24) in Katowice, Poland have wrapped up with as little accomplished and as much left undone as expected ... but we a...
20 November 2016

I Think Permaculture Can Save the World (or At Least Delay Our Demise)

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I finally found it. In the least expected place! I was listening to a wonderfully inspiring webinar yesterday morning called Regenerati...
30 October 2016

Looking for Hope in All the Wrong Places

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"Beyond sad," said the friend who sent me these headlines Hopemongering. I don't know if I'm right or wrong on this...
30 June 2013

"A Torrent of Hope"

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This has to be a short post as I'm in the midst of an environmental education and communication conference. My days are filled with spee...
11 August 2012

When Lack of Hope Meets Self-Doubt...

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… the result is not pretty. The result is how I'm feeling these days, just a week before I head to San Francisco, by train, to be trai...
17 July 2011

Is Forgiveness the Key?

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This morning, in a local magazine, I read an article on forgiveness. Written by Linda Kavelin-Popov (of The Virtues Project fame), it's ...
12 September 2010

How to Make Change

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I'm reading Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (authors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Su...
14 March 2010

Good Grief, Why Aren't More People Talking About the Risk of Catastrophe?

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When Peter presented at the climate change conference this past week, he talked about how we have to do everything we can to eliminate all r...
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17 October 2009

50 Days - A GUEST BLOG "Hope…or Action?"

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A friend I've made online, Janet McNeill , recently posted something on hope in the face of the climate crisis that really resonated for...
11 October 2009

56 Days to Copenhagen - We've Got to Feel the Pain

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We shared dinner the other night with favourite friends we hardly ever see and their beautiful, smiling baby boy. And the topic of conversat...
05 October 2009

62 Days - "Ramp Up the Fear Factor"

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I've had a strong sense all along that toning down the global warming bad news was a bad idea. It started at the very first IPCC meeting...
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20 September 2009

77 Days - Where Has All the Courage Gone? (How I Have Wimped Out)

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No sense harping on climate scientists (see yesterday's post) when I often find myself standing at a moment when some courage (or at lea...
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10 July 2009

149 Days - The Power of Threatening Messages

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In a sense, this carries on from yesterday's blog about the role that children can play in stimulating some climate change heart, soul a...
02 July 2009

157 Days - Random Thoughts on What Activists Should Be Doing

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••• I watched (or rather, was subjected to) a series of short internet advertisements for an oil company last night. At the end of each ad, ...