Archive for the ‘Favorite Dana Quotes’ Category
New Year’s Resolutions for the Environment
Posted by Sarah Parkinson, Published: January 2nd, 2013
The following piece was written by Donella Meadows and published December 29, 1988. Twenty-four years later, her simple, practical suggestions for what we as individuals can do to contribute to the health of our planet still ring true. The year 2012 was marked as a year of unprecedented environmental disasters, but we can all work to make 2013 the year [...]
Let’s Take Back Christmas: Donella Meadows on the Holiday Season
Posted by Sarah Parkinson, Published: December 14th, 2012
Donella Meadows enjoyed many of the same things during the holidays that so many of us look forward to–time with family and loved ones, good music and good company, giving and sharing, warmth and light. As she wrote to her friends in December 1996, “I’m looking forward to it, the slowdown, the quietness. I light white candles and play beautiful [...]
Voting: A Flawed System, but an Important One
Posted by Sarah Parkinson, Published: November 6th, 2012
By Sarah Parkinson
Donella Meadows’s writing showed that the American election system is far from perfect, but the privilege of voting is still too important to pass up.
Today, Americans vote to decide the next President in the White House. The voting system is imperfect, but our participation is important. (Image credit: MCS@flickr)
Voting, democracy, elections, and campaign reform were all common themes in Donella [...]
Speak the truth
Posted by Sarah Parkinson, Published: January 19th, 2012
Though I didn’t grow up on a farm…
Posted by Sarah Parkinson, Published: January 19th, 2012
“Though I didn’t grow up on a farm, I’ve been attracted to them all my life. When in 1972 I finally came to buy my own home, it was a farm. My psychological roots grew instantly into its cold, rocky soil. I have tried several times to leave it, reasoning that I could write more if I didn’t spend so [...]
