High-Tech Garbage Recycling Makes Jobs and Saves Money
By Donella Meadows
–July 30, 1987–
American municipalities will spend $35-50 billion over the next four years for trash incinerators, but incinerators are not the best solution to the garbage problem, says Neil Seldman. They cost too much, they pollute, they waste resources, and they funnel money away from the community instead of back into local jobs and businesses.
Neil Seldman is President [...]
The Philippines After the Revolution — One Step at a Time
By Donella Meadows
–July 23, 1987–
This year we’re celebrating the 200th anniversary of our constitution a full eleven years after the 200th anniversary of our revolution. It took the new USA that long to come up with a constitution and a bill of rights. You might argue, listening to the Iran/contra hearings, that we are still working at being a democracy.
But [...]
Dear Folks: July 19, 1987
Dear Folks,
It’s Sunday morning, bright and clear, fairly warm but not as bad as the pressure cooker we were living in all last week.
Last week we had a rare Bermuda High, sweeping air from the southeast up to us relentlessly for five straight days. Southeast of us is a large ocean, of course, and also the biggest megalopolis in the [...]
E. B. White the Skeptic and Ollie North the True Believer
By Donella Meadows
–July 16, 1987–
Last week while I was watching Oliver North testify before Congress, I was also reading a biography of the great American writer E.B. White. I lived alternately in the worlds of North the True Believer and White the Eternal Skeptic.
North said, “I am going to walk out of here with my head up and my shoulders [...]
Ronald Reagan in the Shadow of Thomas Jefferson
By Donella Meadows
–July 9, 1987–
When a President summons the image of a great predecessor to cast a gleam of glory onto a present action, watch out. The current incumbent is probably trying to pull off something the historical one would have detested. Richard Nixon used a portrait of honest Abe Lincoln as the backdrop for his prevarications about Watergate. And [...]
