An Endangered Species Can Be Fun
By Donella Meadows
–July 10, 1986–
I couldn’t believe it when I saw the item on the town meeting agenda: “Article 26. To see if the town will vote to designate the Cobblestone Tiger Beetle, an endangered species that inhabits Plainfield’s own Burnap Island, the Plainfield Town Insect.”
“Some environmentalist has gone off the deep end,” I thought, uncharitably. I could imagine the [...]
Hands Across White River Junction
By Donella Meadows
–May 29, 1986–
The official Hands Across America line passed 200 miles south of Vermont, but people up here wanted to express their concern for the homeless and the hungry too. Somehow they found each other and formed their own lines—2000 people in Burlington, 6000 in Barre-Montpelier, 250 in Strafford—and about 50 in White River Junction.
Katy Chaffee called me [...]
