Dear Folks: January 23, 1994
Dear Folks,
Thank heaven for Mount Washington! Any time we begin to feel oppressed by our winter down here in the valley, we can always hear (because the weather reporters are assiduous about reporting to us) what it’s doing at the top of Mount Washington. Then we feel MUCH better.
On Foundation Farm last Monday (Martin Luther King Day all over the [...]
Great Gollups of Opinion, For Those Who Have the Stomach
By Donella Meadows
–December 2, 1993–
I wonder if I’m the only person in America who subscribes to both the Conservative Chronicle (which is advertised on the Rush Limbaugh Show) and the Liberal Opinion Week (which isn’t).
Admittedly, you have to be an opinion-page freak to read even one of these weekly papers. They bring together most of the syndicated columns of the [...]
Dear Folks: August 16, 1992
Dear Folks,
It’s Sunday morning, gray and misty. The summer continues cool. The garden is in slow motion. Only a handful of cherry tomatoes have ripened. The pepper plants have not even set fruit. The melons sit and shiver. Some of the cucumbers are molding on the vine — something I have never seen before. The sweet corn has been on [...]
System Dynamics Meets The Press: A few good concepts can make a big difference
By Donella H. Meadows
–Fall 1989–
Through my work as a systems scientist, I have met the press in continuous and often dramatic confrontation for twenty years. My experiences have sometimes been frustrating, sometimes fruitful, and sometimes funny. Playboy, of all publications, was the first to do an article about our world modeling work (The Limits to Growth, Meadows et al., 1972). [...]
