Dear Folks: July 23, 1989
Dear Folks, The hay’s in the barn, all’s right with the world!
Sometimes I think I make the hay a drama every year, by worrying about it too much. Sometimes I think it actually is a drama. I can’t remember putting up hay when it wasn’t darkening in the west, with a few preliminary raindrops falling — just enough to get the [...]
What are we Really Fighting About?
By Donella Meadows
–July 20, 1989–
Twenty years ago I was legally forbidden, as a married woman living in Massachusetts, to have an abortion or to use contraceptives. I was a low-income but privileged member of society (a graduate student), and I obtained the Pill with no trouble. My university health service dispensed it quietly, as did many doctors throughout the state.
I [...]
A Letter, Anguish, and a Rubber Band
By Donella Meadows
–July 13, 1989–
I suppose everyone who writes a regular newspaper column gets an amazing stream of letters from readers — I do, anyway. They scold me and praise me. They contain jokes, stories, clippings, leaflets, occasional obscenities, and all sorts of questions. Often a letter will go straight to my heart — because it comes straight from someone [...]
Harvesting One Hundredfold: Key Concepts and Case Studies in Environmental Education
By Donella H. Meadows
United Nations Environment Programme, 1989
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword
Author’s Acknowledgements
I. INTRODUCTION
II. ABOUT THIS BOOK
III. WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT
A. What is Environmental Education?
B. Why Environmental Education?
IV. THE KEY CONCEPTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
A. Levels of Being
B. Cycles
C. Complex Systems
D. Population Growth and Carrying Capacity
E. Ecologically Sustainable Development
F. Socially Sustainable [...]
The Richest Ten Percent, The Poorest Forty Percent
By Donella Meadows
–July 6, 1989–
The 1989 World Bank Development Report came out last month, an event that created excitement nowhere except in the hearts of statistics freaks like me. No sooner had my copy arrived than I turned to my favorite table — Table 30, Income Distribution. I like to keep up with how the top 10 percent lives.
To my [...]
