Freedom, stewardship, fidelity, family, community…
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: June 3rd, 1999
Biotech companies love to talk about feeding the world…
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: March 25th, 1999
“Biotech companies love to talk about feeding the world, but their products must pay off in the market, which measures dollar demand, not human need. The effort has gone into the potato that makes McDonald’s fries, not the yam eaten by folks with no cash. The corn that feeds America’s pigs and chickens, not the dryland millet that feeds Africa’s [...]
… on vision
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: February 12th, 1996
“If we haven’t specified where we want to go, it is hard to set our compass, to muster enthusiasm, or to measure progress. But vision is not only missing almost entirely from policy discussions; it is missing from our culture. We talk easily and endlessly about our frustrations, doubts, and complaints, but we speak only rarely, and sometimes with embarrassment, [...]
I could see myself with fully gray hair…
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: October 26th, 1993
In 1993 Dana did a visioning exercise in which she envisioned herself 10 years later:
“I could see myself with fully gray hair, looking vibrantly healthy. I was speaking in public. I was a constant presence in public discourse. I was calm and quiet, not flashy, not charismatic. My purpose was to insert into the discussion as much perspective, as broad [...]
… on a sustainable world
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: October 19th, 1993
“I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains itself unchanged. I mean a world that evolves, as life on earth has evolved for three billion years, toward ever greater diversity, elegance, beauty, self-awareness, interrelationship, and spiritual realization.”
—“Beyond the Limits”, speech given in Spain, Fall 1993
