The Catbox Guide to Business Success
by Donella Meadows
— June 1, 2000 —
Half awake, with an early morning NPR broadcast in the background, I think I heard, though I hope I did not, the author of the latest business book telling CEOs the great lessons to be learned from kids playing in a sandbox.
Is that frightening or what? Am I the only one who’s both amused [...]
Beautiful World: A Bridge Between the Arts and Sustainability
By Melita Rogelj
What is the role — and the potential — of the arts in bringing about sustainability? That was the question pursued by Sustainability Institute intern Melita Rogelj as her Master’s thesis for the School for International Training in Vermont (graduated in 2000).
Melita, also a graduate of the prestigious LEAD program (www.lead.org), set out to answer the following questions [...]
Dear Folks: May 28, 2000
Hello, Dear Folks!
It’s Memorial Day Monday, early morning, cool and beautiful outside. I wouldn’t be inside except that I’ve been out the last two days solid, I’ve put this letter off too long, and I have a minute before Marsha calls me for chicken-coop building.
We have our nice gypsy-mobile chicken house for the layers, but our brood of this year’s [...]
What To Do With Your Single, Precious Presidential Vote?
by Donella Meadows
— May 25, 2000 —
Russell Peterson, former governor of Delaware, ardent environmentalist, lifelong Republican until a few years ago when he switched to being a Democrat, was appalled when I told him I couldn’t bring myself to vote for Al Gore.
He gave me the undeniably rational argument. George W. shows no sign of either knowing or caring about [...]
Ecological Destruction and a Vermont Farm in May
by Donella Meadows
— May 19, 2000 —
The timing is unbearable. Here on my desk in the middle of the blooming, buzzing month of May is the best report yet on the state of the world’s ecosystems. Best not because it contains good news — it doesn’t — but because it’s short and clear and blunt.
The report evaluates the health of [...]
