A Nasty Campaign Against Organic Food
by Donella Meadows
— March 9, 2000 —
The strangest news items about organic food have been popping up. It isn’t good for you after all. It’s full of bacteria and insect parts. You folks who pay a high price for it are not only suckers, you’re risking your health.
ABC’s John Stossel recently interviewed Dennis Avery, “a leading critic of organic produce,” [...]
Dear Folks: January 22, 2000
Dear Folks,
They say it might get up to +5 degrees today. It was -20 last night and will be again tonight. We’ve gone from one of the warmest Decembers ever to a January that is about to break the all-time record for the number of successive days in which the temperature drops below zero.
There is a lot of wind to [...]
How Campaign Reform Could Clean up a lot of Hog Manure
By Donella Meadows
–January 20, 2000—-
“Campaign reform” is much too polite a phrase. “Ending corruption” is more like it. I could — and maybe I will –write a column a week from now till next fall’s election counting the ways campaign contributions corrupt our government, destroy our public assets and rob taxpayers.
Today’s example is industrial hog farming.
As recently as 20 years [...]
Dear Folks: August 30, 1999
Dear Folks,
What a painful month it has been! And what a beautiful month it has been! I guess that means it’s been a month of up and down emotions.
UP — August around here is always so lovely. The midsummer heat is tempered but not gone. The sun rises a full hour later and sets a full hour earlier, and the [...]
Seven-Plus Wonders of Sustainability
by Donella Meadows
— August 26, 1999 —
A couple of years ago, while I was doing something else, I heard snatches of a radio program in which Alan Durning, the director of Seattle’s Northwest Environment Watch, talked about the “Seven Sustainable Wonders of the World.” Clever concept, I thought, but afterward I could only remember three of his wonders:
The bicycle — [...]
