Dear Folks: May 23, 1999
Dear Folks,
Twenty-seven years ago today Dennis and I moved to Foundation Farm. Now it is for sale. And I am soaking up my last May here.
May! I swore long ago never to leave this farm in May, never to miss a moment of this wonderful, magical month. (When the black flies appear and the crabgrass seeds germinate by the gazillion [...]
Never Mind Paper vs. Plastic Bags, How Did You Get To The Grocery Store?
by Donella Meadows
— May 20, 1999 —
Finally! A sensible list of things we can do to save the planet!
Discussion on this topic has been muddled since the Fifty Simple Things book came out years ago. It was a well-meant list and a very popular one. Its sales showed that millions of folks, especially young folks, are willing to change their [...]
A Tale of Two Fisheries
by Donella Meadows
— May 13, 1999 —
At the beginning of this millennium the Norse began to fish what is now called the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland. In 1501 the Company of Adventurers to the New Found Lands was chartered in England to make summer expeditions to that rich fishing ground. For the next 500 years, the Grand [...]
Amory Lovins Sees the Future and it is Hydrogen
by Donella Meadows
— May 5, 1999 —
For 25 years energy guru Amory Lovins has been seeing farther and farther into the energy future. He has been labeled a dreamer, but by now he’s accumulated enough of a record to qualify as an oracle. At a recent meeting of the National Hydrogen Association he (with colleague Brett Williams of Rocky Mountain [...]
The Great North American Carbon Sink – Maybe
by Donella Meadows
— April 29, 1999 —
“Aha! We knew it!” a number of conservative columnists have been crowing lately. “Greenhouse, schmeenhouse, go right on driving those sports utility vehicles.”
The cause of their excitement is an article published in Science magazine, one of the most prestigious places a scientific article can be published, claiming that the North American continent is a [...]
