Dear Folks: August 20, 1989
Dear Folks, Well, it’s the time when the garden wells up in a flood of vegetables. The overabundance is worse this year than usual. What with the horse manure Sylvia put on the garden over the winter and the reliable rains this summer, we are up to our necks in veggies and flowers. We haul in daily baskets — zucchini, broccoli, [...]
Allergic to the Twentieth Century
By Donella Meadows
–August 17, 1989–
Until she was 26 Annie Berthold-Bond had never had a medical problem. That year her husband Daniel was a graduate student at Yale, and she had just finished art school and was working as a waitress. One day there was a gas leak at work. “Lots of people passed out. I didn’t, but now I see [...]
The Dilemna of Dursban and Dartmouth’s Elms
By Donella Meadows
–August 10, 1989–
Skeletons of elm trees still stand in the valley where I live. They have succumbed to Dutch elm disease so recently that they haven’t yet been cut down. The dead branches hold their curving V shapes, like huge elegant vases, reminders of a beauty that is now only a memory.
Only a memory, except on the Dartmouth [...]
Seeing Ourselves as our Neighbors See Us
By Donella Meadows
–August 3, 1989–
Lots of Canadians read Time every week, but few Americans read Maclean’s, and that’s a shame. If we took the time to see the world as our northern neighbors see it, we could learn something. We could learn how we ourselves look to our closest and most sympathetic, but independent and sometimes critical, observers. We could [...]
A Call for Environmental Success Stories
By Donella Meadows
–July 27, 1989–
For the past three years a Washington-based group called Renew America has published an annual report card on the environmental progress (or regress) of the 50 states. The “State of the States” report ranks the states on the strictness and completeness of their policies on such matters as water quality, air quality, waste disposal, energy conservation.
I [...]
