Dear Folks: November 23, 1992
Zierenberg, Germany
Dear Folks, It’s a Saturday morning and I’m sitting in the cozy study Hartmut and Rike (pronounced “Reeka”) Bossel have let me take over in their house. I’m looking out the window at sleet coming down on the bare branches of the apple and nut trees in the back yard. One mountain ash is laden with drooping clusters of red [...]
Dear Folks: October 16, 1992
Johannesburg airport
Dear Folks, I watched the first presidential debate at the farm, the debate of the vice-presidents in the waiting lounge of the Boston airport, and the second presidential debate at 3 this morning (Johannesburg time) in my hotel. CNN is making me feel close to home!
I am becoming a political junkie. Even at 3 AM after two nights on airplanes, [...]
OK Kids, Time to Turn to your Snickers Lesson
By Donella Meadows
–October 1, 1992–
The scariest article I have read in a long time appeared in the September 21 issue of The Nation. It was written by Jonathan Kozol, and it is about the plan George Bush, Lamar Alexander, and Chris Whittle are hatching for America’s schools.
You know who George Bush is. Lamar Alexander is his Secretary of Education. Chris [...]
Rio’s Success: Asking the Right Questions
By Donella Meadows
–Fall 1992–
Last issue, we promised a wrap-up on the long awaited “Earth Summit” – the UN’s huge Conference on Environment and Development that was held this June in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
We liked this (excerpted) analysis by IC contributing editor Donella (Dana) Meadows. Her weekly column, “The Global Citizen,” is one of the most reliable places we know for holistic [...]
Enclosure in an Eco-Boomerang Produces a New Way of Seeing
By Donella Meadows
–September 24, 1992–
The first media reports were glowing. There was Biosphere 2, a huge greenhouse in the Arizona desert, containing a miniature ocean, a rainforest, a savanna, a desert, a farm, and eight people who will live there, sealed in, for two years. A gee-whiz, hi-tech, Green experiment. All air, water, and food cycling and recycling through natural [...]
