It Will Be A Great Adventure
by Elizabeth Sawin
— 1 May, 2002 —
Just now despair lives close to the surface in many of the people I know. It leaps out at surprising times.
Walking up a hill with my neighbor Phil, a bottle of milk in his arms, my daughter on my back, I’m thinking how warm the spring day feels when he stops suddenly and speaks. [...]
The Trouble with Attractiveness – Raising Quality of Life Amidst Complex Urban Systems
by Andrew Jones
— December 5, 2001 —
Over the past year, hundreds of citizens in my home town of Asheville, North Carolina, have come together to create a list of goals for our region. Higher wages, more affordable housing, cleaner environment, better schools – the vision for our small mountain city is appropriately ambitious.
I applaud this important effort. But the experiences [...]
So Everyone Wants Peace, So What?
by Donella Meadows
— September 23, 1999 —
Recently I invited friends around the world to ask their friends and neighbors a simple question: “What would the world be like if it were what you REALLY WANT, not what you’ve learned to settle for or what you think is possible? What do you REALLY WANT the world to be like for your [...]
Dear Folks: November 26, 1995
Dear Folks,
Nearly always when I sit down to write this monthly letter to you, it’s a Sunday. I have been immersed in farm activities, and I am suffused with happiness — my normal state when I’ve spent a day or two putzing around outside. So I usually start off with farm stuff, descriptions of nature and animals and gardens and [...]
Politicians Have No Idea What People Really Want
By Donella Meadows
–October 5, 1995–
I should be writing about how the grinches in Congress are trying to eviscerate the Endangered Species Act, or about their latest tricks for stomping on the poor while handing the nation’s resources to the rich, or about their lack of interest in hearing public comment on these depredations.
But I get tired of being outraged. No [...]
