Dear Folks: April 20, 1987
Dear Folks,
It’s changed a lot around here since the last time I wrote. The transformation from March to April is hard to believe in this North Country. One month ago everything was white and frozen. Now the snow is gone, the grass is beginning to green up, and the forests have taken on the subtle pinky-brown color of the maple [...]
Good Environmental News From All Over
By Donella Meadows
–January 15, 1987–
If you pay attention to the environmental news, you can easily get the impression that the waters and air and soils of the earth are deteriorating and that nobody’s doing much of anything about it.
You can also conclude that protecting the environment is a tough, expensive job. There’s a choice — a healthy environment or a [...]
Dear Folks: December 20, 1986
Dear Folks,
It’s Saturday morning and Foundation Farm is humming. John is downstairs vacuuming his rooms (the living and dining rooms are his to keep clean). Kate is in the kitchen making bread (Suzanne and I clean the kitchen; we’ll do it whent he breadmaking is done). Suzanne has just gone out to pick up the mail at the post office [...]
Good News in the East, Bad News in the West
By Donella Meadows
–June 12, 1986–
The Chernobyl accident was a story about nuclear power and also a story about how both East and West distorted the story, each in a different direction.
Western news reports of Chernobyl began with exaggerated estimates of the number of deaths. Later the big story was the refusal of the Soviet Union to release information about the [...]
