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Many Kinds of Giving
By Donella Meadows
–December 21, 1989–
Every now and then come times in life when you have to change your give/take ratio — when you have to be more of a taker. Such a time has come to me.
I’m not good at taking (too many complicated sub-thoughts about my own worthiness). But it’s always useful to be forced to see life from [...]
Ashoka Fellows: Enterprises for a Better World
By Donella Meadows
–December 14, 1989–
Every now and then the air in Mexico City gets so bad that flocks of migrating birds flying overhead rain down dead on the city.
A million children in Mexico City are permanently condemned to be slow learners because they have been poisoned by gasoline lead in the city smog.
Neither the public nor the leaders of Mexico [...]
A Week’s Trash is Heavy Burden
By Donella Meadows
–December 7, 1989–
It was the students’ idea to carry their trash around for a week.
They had worked with the Dartmouth building and grounds staff to create one of the most successful college recycling programs in the nation. By the end of the first year the college had reclaimed 500,000 aluminum cans, 48 tons of white paper, 45 tons [...]
Romania Still Stands — And so do Other Dictatorships
By Donella Meadows
–November 30, 1989–
Until a few weeks ago if you’d asked me whether I’d ever visited a country so unpleasant that I would never want to go back, I would have answered yes, three — Romania, Czechoslovakia and East Germany.
In those places the air was thick with fear day and night, inside and out, in schools, homes and workplaces. [...]
Solar Hydrogen — A Fuel for Avoiding a Greenhouse Future
By Donella Meadows
–November 23, 1989–
If George Bush were an environmental leader, he would not have blocked an international agreement this month to curtail emissions of greenhouse gases.
He would see that the greenhouse problem is in fact an opportunity — to move beyond fossil fuels, oil spills, air pollution, and enthrallment to the Middle East, toward clean, renewable energy we can [...]
