Dear Folks: March 25, 1990
Dear Folks, “Uterus — no evidence of tumor. Adenocarcinoma — no residual tumor.”
Dr. S. came in triumphantly waving the pathology report ten minutes before I checked out of the hospital. I felt like laughing and crying at the same time. I knew the report would say that, but to hear it, finally, actually, after four months of working so hard toward [...]
The Grass Doesn’t Pay the Clouds for the Rain
By Donella Meadows
–March 22, 1990–
“In the current vocabulary of condemnation there are few words as final and conclusive as the word ‘uneconomic’,” wrote E.F. Schumacher in Small is Beautiful. “Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you [...]
Our GNP is up; Our Welfare is Down
By Donella Meadows
–March 8, 1990–
Are you better off than you were ten years ago?
The government says you are — or at any rate the average American is. The per capita GNP (Gross National Product), our most widely watched and quoted economic index, rose every year during the 1980’s except the recession year of 1982.
But two researchers, Herman Daly, Senior Economist [...]
Ashoka: Innovators For The Public
Program provides fellowships for more than 200 “public-service entrepreneurs” in Latin America and Asia
By Donella Meadows
–Late Winter 1990–
Every now and then the air in Mexico City gets so bad that flocks of migrating birds flying overhead rain down dead on the city.
A million children in Mexico City are permanently condemned to be slow learners because they have been poisoned by gasoline lead [...]
The Story of an Incinerator — So Far
By Donella Meadows
–March 1, 1990–
Consider the following true story the next time someone tells you a trash-burning incinerator is the answer to your community’s solid waste problem.
October 1982 — Project Manager Ted Siegler tells the 25 towns in the New Hampshire Vermont Solid Waste District that they can dispose of their garbage with a trash-to-energy incinerator for a cost of [...]
