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Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and Trust Your Common Sense
By Donella Meadows
–March 3, 1994–
Out there in readerland some folks live at an amazingly high level of environmental consciousness. For example, here’s part of a letter I got recently from a concerned Vermonter named Gretchen.
“I live on a steep hillside that no one wants to mow, and I’m using sheep to keep the land open. They fertilize the land as [...]
All Tied Up in Environmental Snits
By Donella Meadows
–February 24, 1994–
A few weeks ago a bill giving the Environmental Protection Agency cabinet-level status came before Congress. The House, in a fit of pique, refused to consider it unless amendments could be added weakening the EPA’s powers.
In a similar rambunctious mood, Republicans in Vermont’s Senate have blocked appointments to the Environmental Board that administers the state’s land-use [...]
Greening the White House is a Big Job
By Donella Meadows
–February 17, 1994–
“Before I ask you to do the best you can in your house,” said President Clinton last Earth Day, “I ought to make sure I’m doing the best I can in my house. We’re going to identify what it takes to make the White House a model for efficiency and waste reduction. Then we’re going to [...]
Need the Coming Anarchy Come?
By Donella Meadows
–February 10, 1994–
It is unacceptable to be terminally pessimistic in public. The media like to picture a bright future of global trade and information superhighways, and that’s what many of us want to hear. But Robert D. Kaplan, a reporter who travels by bus and bush-taxi in the seamier parts of the world, cannot contain his pessimism. He [...]
A Farewell Address by the World Bank’s Most Outrageous Economist
By Donella Meadows
–February 3, 1994–
Six years ago, when the World Bank hired Herman Daly, those who knew his work were amazed. Daly is, depending on your point of view, either the most dangerous economist in the world, or the most visionary. For years he taught economics at Louisiana State and quietly wrote articles that stood much of economics on its [...]
