Romania Still Stands — And so do Other Dictatorships
By Donella Meadows
–November 30, 1989–
Until a few weeks ago if you’d asked me whether I’d ever visited a country so unpleasant that I would never want to go back, I would have answered yes, three — Romania, Czechoslovakia and East Germany.
In those places the air was thick with fear day and night, inside and out, in schools, homes and workplaces. [...]
Dear Folks: November 26, 1989
Dear Folks, Well, I was hoping the next adventure I would get to share with you would be a mad love affair, or maybe a surprise trip to Tahiti, or a Pulitzer Prize, or at the very least the triumphant completion of my book — but life has its way of serving up adventures that are not the ones you hope [...]
Solar Hydrogen — A Fuel for Avoiding a Greenhouse Future
By Donella Meadows
–November 23, 1989–
If George Bush were an environmental leader, he would not have blocked an international agreement this month to curtail emissions of greenhouse gases.
He would see that the greenhouse problem is in fact an opportunity — to move beyond fossil fuels, oil spills, air pollution, and enthrallment to the Middle East, toward clean, renewable energy we can [...]
Overdue Thanks to the Soil Bugs
By Donella Meadows
–November 16, 1989–
With a Thanksgiving feast spread before you, it’s easy to be thankful — for the food, for those who produced it from the farmers to the cooks, for all the blessings of life, including the unexplainable gift of life itself.
I bet it has never occurred to you, though, to be thankful for the most invisible contributors [...]
Bad and Good Environmental Marks for McDonald’s
By Donella Meadows
–November 9, 1989–
McDonald’s, like all fast-food purveyors, is one of the great garbage producers of the world. McDonald’s is also working as hard at reducing its contribution to the garbage problem as any company I know. It’s coming up with all sorts of bright ideas. Some of them are really bright. Some are smokescreens and diversions.
There’s a handy [...]
