Dear Folks: April 25, 1999
Dear Folks,
Maybe we won’t need to put a “for sale” sign on Foundation Farm.
Maybe it will sell itself.
As soon as I started talking about putting it on the market, I got three expressions of interest, one from my next-door neighbor Peter Whybrow, one from a nice family in Meriden who have been eyeing it for some time. So this week [...]
Song for the Bluefin Tuna
by Donella Meadows
— April 22, 1999 —
Carl Safina is a fanatic fisherman. He’s especially fanatic about ocean fish, which got him interested in seabirds, which got him into serious biology, which got him infuriated about what he was seeing in the fisheries, which got him to found the Audubon Society’s Living Oceans Program.
All of which prompted him to write Song [...]
Living Green isn’t a Scarifice, it’s an Adventure
By Donella Meadows
–April 19, 1999–
I’m one of those tedious people who try to “live green.”
I’m no beginner. I’ve been at it 30 years, since I lived in the toxic air of northeast New Jersey, watched suburbs munch up farmland, traveled to India where eroded soil blew against my skin and hunger looked me in the face.
When I see change is [...]
Living Green Isn’t A Sacrifice, It’s An Adventure
by Donella Meadows
— April 19, 1999 —
I’m one of those tedious people who try to “live green.”
I’m no beginner. I’ve been at it 30 years, since I lived in the toxic air of northeast New Jersey, watched suburbs munch up farmland, traveled to India where eroded soil blew against my skin and hunger looked me in the face.
When I see [...]
The Dow Passes Ten Thousand – Hooray?
by Donella Meadows
— April 15, 1999 —
Wow! The Dow-Jones average is over ten thousand! And still, as of this writing, rising. Judging from the media celebration, here is proof positive that America is thriving.
But who or what is actually thriving?
There are two ways to answer that question. One is to travel around America — all of it, the inner cities [...]
