Noise-Making Goop and the Carrying Capacity of the Earth
By Donella Meadows
–April 30, 1998–
It was a gorgeous April day, and I was hurrying home, heading for my garden. I stopped for gas, paid inside, walked out, opened the car door, stopped dead, wondered if I had really seen what I had just seen, turned around and walked back in.
There it was on the counter. “FLARP! Noise-Making Goop!” said the [...]
Dear Folks: April 26, 1998
Dear Folks,
Such a difference a month makes in New England in April! Especially this April, which has been as warm and sunny and sweet as any I can remember.
Because of the lovely weather, we’re two weeks ahead of schedule. Boy, does THAT ever feel good — and rare in our hectic spring! Stephen and Kerry have their whole two acre [...]
Monsanto and Fox and Consumers’ Right to Know
By Donella Meadows
–April 23, 1998–
Well here’s a howdy-do. TV station in Florida prepares hard-hitting series questioning safety of grocery-store milk. Large biotech company threatens station with libel suit. Station cancels broadcast, orders reporters to rewrite series. Reporters refuse. Station fires reporters. Reporters sue station.
It’s easy to post one of two well-worn headlines over this story — CORPORATION AND MEDIA CONSPIRE [...]
CSA Farms Can Help Our Health, Our Land, and Our Farmers
By Donella Meadows
–April 16, 1998–
On average, 65 cents out of every dollar you spend for food at the supermarket go for packaging, delivery and marketing. Thirty cents go to chemical companies that make fertilizers, pesticides and genetically altered organisms. That leaves five cents for the farmer.
If you wonder why farms are failing (over 20,000 a year go under in the [...]
Getting Rid of the IRS — or the Payroll Tax — or the Sales Tax
By Donella Meadows
–April 9, 1998–
Right around income tax time all the political bombast about getting rid of the IRS begins to sound good. Possible even. A booklet called “Tax Shift,” which handily arrived on my desk just before April 15, tells how we could replace existing taxes and improve both the economy and the environment in the process.
As the title [...]
