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Your Money or Your Life
By Donella Meadows
–December 23, 1993–
There’s a subversive little book on the best-seller list, a how-to book with the normal upbeat, chatty, you-can-do-it, here-are-the-stories-of-folks-who-did, how-to tone. If everyone followed this book’s advice, economic life as we know it would be transformed. The nation would be swept by an almost unacceptable wave of happiness. And the world would go a long way [...]
Going Too Far
By Donella Meadows
–December 16, 1993–
When she was 16, Breezy Osborne suggested that her father Jennings string up some Christmas lights on their million-dollar house in Little Rock, Arkansas. He had fun doing it. So the next year he added more lights. And the next year still more.
Seven Christmases later the two-acre Osborne yard featured angels, a 60-foot tree, a Micky [...]
Great Gollups of Opinion, For Those Who Have the Stomach
By Donella Meadows
–December 2, 1993–
I wonder if I’m the only person in America who subscribes to both the Conservative Chronicle (which is advertised on the Rush Limbaugh Show) and the Liberal Opinion Week (which isn’t).
Admittedly, you have to be an opinion-page freak to read even one of these weekly papers. They bring together most of the syndicated columns of the [...]
Bovine Growth Hormone–Not the Only Choice
By Donella Meadows
–November 25, 1993–
Now that the Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of bioengineered bovine growth hormone (bGH), dairy farmers — and consumers — have some decisions to make.
The risks and possible payoffs of the bGH decision are laid out in detail in a remarkable new book called The Dairy Debate (edited by William C. Liebhardt, available [...]
What You Pay Up Front Isn’t All You Pay
By Donella Meadows
–November 18, 1993–
The good citizens of Greenfield, Massachusetts, recently voted down a zoning change that would have brought a Wal-Mart to their town. For that act of commercial backwardness they were scolded in Newsweek magazine. Two intrepid Newsweek reporters went shopping in downtown Greenfield and reported “high prices, little service, and less charm than one might have expected.” [...]
