Dear Folks: March 20, 1994
Dear Folks,
TRIPLETS!!! Born on the hour of the equinox! What a way to start the lambing season!
The lambs are not due for two more days. I turned Wally in with the girls on October 23, and it’s a 150-day gestation period. The ewes that are in heat when the ram arrives usually pop precisely 150 days later. The others all [...]
Dear Folks: February 20, 1994
Dear Folks,
WOW! It’s PLUS FIFTY out! The snow is still piled high, but it’s MELTING! It’s dripping off the roof and trickling down the driveway and sounding like tiny streams running everywhere. The SUN is shining! We in this valley, who can barely remember a day above zero, who automatically pull on three layers before venturing outside, who thought the [...]
Power to the Planners or to the People?
By Donella Meadows
–August 5, 1993–
We had spent two days indoors, talking, talking, talking, and not agreeing. We had to go out into the community of Guarari before we saw that both sides of the argument were right.
It was a conference on human settlements in Latin America, held in San Jose, Costa Rica. The argument was about who should shape cities, [...]
Seattle Citizens Define Their Own Dow-Jones Average
By Donella Meadows
–May 20, 1993–
Last June an unlikely bunch of people got together in Seattle — a Boeing executive, an Episcopal priest, a city councilman, citizen activists for everything from the environment to minority rights, a high school teacher, a union representative, a local television personality, and about 100 more. They called themselves the Sustainable Seattle Civic Panel. Sustainability for [...]
Another Fight for the NIMBYs
By Donella Meadows
–May 2, 1991–
There’s an environmental fight brewing in my valley that has all the NIMBYs scrambling. You know — NIMBYs — the Not In My Back Yard folks, often looked upon as selfish obstructionists who try to stop progress by opposing somebody else’s idea of development.
In the current case the “development” is an electric power plant that will [...]
