Declare War on Escalation
by Andrew Jones and Elizabeth Sawin
— September 15, 2001 —
Which came first, the violence or the retaliation? That is today’s somber version of the old “chicken or the egg” riddle.
On September 11th, it sure felt like the violence came first. But the men who attacked the U.S. almost certainly saw their actions as retaliation for earlier violence. Osama bin Laden [...]
Enlarging Our Definition of Beauty with Some Help from the Neighbors
by Elizabeth Sawin
— September, 2001 —
Everywhere I have lived, I have had neighbors, sometimes in houses just fifteen or twenty feet away. Always I’ve had a garden and woodpile, sometimes bees, chickens, and fruit trees. In each place I have lived, I have given the garden a lot of my love and care, the lawn and shrubs a bit less. [...]
What Does It Take To Say, “Better Safe Than Sorry”?
by Elizabeth Sawin
— August, 2001 —
We were exploring an unfamiliar pond. My four-year-old daughter was out in the water, up to her knees, when I called her back to shore.
“It’s so muddy I can’t see if the pond gets deep quickly, and I couldn’t reach you if you fell in. Better safe than sorry.”
Parents try to give their kids room [...]
Is the Future Our Choice or Our Fate?
By Donella Meadows
–April 19, 2001–
“COMPUTER PREDICTS WORLD COLLAPSE”
I was one of the team of people at MIT who wrote a book that created a worldwide burst of media foreboding. It began as a small report to the Club of Rome. Within a few months we were reading headlines like those above with complete astonishment.
We didn’t think we had written a [...]
The Balaton Bulletin
Newsletter of the Balaton Group, April 2001
Special Memorial Edition for Donella “Dana” Meadows, 1941-2001
Table of Contents
Editors’ Introduction, by Nanda Gilden and Niels Meyer
How The Limits to Growth Happened, by Dana Meadows
Close Friends — Distant Lives, by Joan Davis
“Love, Dana”, by Alan AtKisson
The Brightest Star in the Sky, by Alan AtKisson
Letter to Dana, by Aromar Revi
Dana Meadows: The Second-to-Last Chapter, by [...]
