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Building a Green Economy
By Paul Krugman
The following article was originally published in the New York Times Magazine on April 7, 2010.
If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. If we continue with business as usual, they [...]
The History of The Limits to Growth
By Jørgen Stig Nørgård, John Peet, Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir
Introduction
A pioneering report, The Limits to Growth, published in 1972, marked a turning point in thinking about the environment, selling some 30 million copies in 30 languages.1 The two-year study behind the report took place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the request of the Club of Rome, an international group of distinguished business people, state [...]
Can Love Change the Wording of Laws? Can Concern For the Future Change the Outcome of Votes?
Keynote address to the 2008 Sustainable Energy Summit, Amherst, MA
by Elizabeth R. Sawin
— June 20, 2008 —
Tonight I would like to talk about acceptance and the kind of action that flows out of acceptance.
In particular, I would like to talk about accepting the reality of climate change, the size and scope of what we must accomplish to address it, and [...]
A Mother, a Daughter, a Graph
by Elizabeth Sawin
— December 19, 2007 —
My friend Diana told me a story once about the woman who was a teacher to both of us, Donella Meadows. Dana, as we called her, was working on a book chapter about food and hunger, and Diana, her research assistant, had just provided her with a stack of graphs about grain yields and [...]
Overdosing the Earth
by Elizabeth R. Sawin
— 29 August, 2007 —
Not long ago I lived through a few minutes of very deep fear, thinking it possible that I had accidentally given my six-year-old an overdose of an over-the-counter medication.
I filled the little plastic measuring cup with a teaspoon of the viscous liquid and handed it over to my daughter, who drank it down, [...]
