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Events Aren't Important to the Environment
The most important environmental event of the 1980s? There's such a rich list to choose from, mostly disasters. Chernobyl? Certainly high on the list...
score:9, 12/26/1989, ,
Good News in the East, Bad News in the West
The Chernobyl accident was a story about nuclear power and also a story about how both East and West distorted the story, each in a...
score:9, 06/12/1986, ,
Gary Hart -- the Hound is Brother to the Fox
It's awful to watch the pack close in on the fox right in your own back yard. Until Gary Hart arrived in Hanover last...
score:9, 05/14/1987, ,
Information on Energy America Can't Count on
You've seen the ad. An elongated cartoon man in green holds a candle and faces imposing stacks of OPEC oil barrels. The headline reads...
score:9, 06/11/1987, ,
Every Goliath Has His David
The following message was brought to you by the U.S. Committee for Energy Awareness (USCEA) -- for awhile. Then ABC and NBC decided to stop...
score:9, 06/18/1987, ,
Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine
The Fairness Doctrine is gone. Most people don't even know for sure what the Fairness Doctrine was, much less that it has been repealed...
score:9, 11/12/1987, ,
A Guide to American Campaign Language
My European friends are watching our election with mystification. They see a young, powerful country with a massive deficit, a negative trade balance, a quarter...
score:9, 10/13/1988, ,
Let's Do the Environment Story Better This Time
The media are buzzing with ecological consciousness. Garbage barges and the greenhouse effect are on Page One. PBS and CNN are making documentaries on the...
score:9, 12/15/1988, ,
To Save the Environment Start by Saving Landsat
Over the next decade the world will critically need an eye on itself. We will need to keep track of greenhouse warming, forest damage from...
score:9, 02/16/1989, ,
A Nation Hyped on News-Jazz
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, there was a place one could turn in this world of relentless, 24-hour, super-hyper...
score:9, 10/26/1989, ,
Is There Such a Thing As Too Much Glasnost?
The outbreak of freedom in Eastern Europe can be traced directly to just one cause: glasnost, truth-telling. A new openness about the activities of...
score:9, 12/28/1989, ,
Wage a Quiet War Against War
"Why aren't you writing columns to oppose this war?" my peace-activist friends are asking me. Because this is a time of rampant misinformation...
score:9, 01/03/1991, ,
Environmental News Proves No One Right or Wrong
You may have seen the recent and ominous headlines: SCIENTISTS FIND OZONE DISAPPEARING FASTER THAN EXPECTED. OZONE LOSS RAISES RISK OF CANCER. Is this news...
score:9, 04/18/1991, ,
Nancy and the October Surprise
I have watched for ten years as rumors about the October surprise have started up and disappeared and started up again. Over the same time...
score:9, 04/25/1991, ,
Corporations Tell Us All About the Environment
The friendly folks at the U.S. Fertilizer Institute are waging a campaign against manure. The word "manure" has a wholesome connotation that is simply...
score:9, 08/01/1991, ,
He Who Frames the Question Determines the Answer
The central question last week was, for awhile: why did the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee dismiss so lightly a charge of sexual harrassment? Then...
score:9, 10/17/1991, ,
The Corporate Citizens' Council for Mom and Apple Pie
Many, probably most, large corporations have done a lot in the last few years to clean up their environmental act. No sector of the U...
score:9, 01/02/1992, ,
My Three Minutes of Fame
The television people offered to pay my $400 plane fare to New York. Better come the night before, they said, in case there's a...
score:9, 02/20/1992, ,
Traumas to the Planet That Have and Haven't Happened
Last January scientists warned that the Northern Hemisphere was about to be visited by a massive ozone hole. The hole never appeared. The community of...
score:9, 06/25/1992, ,
Ok Kids, Time to Turn to Your Snickers Lesson
The scariest article I have read in a long time appeared in the September 21 issue of The Nation. It was written by Jonathan Kozol...
score:9, 10/01/1992, ,
The Nuclear Power Industry Helps Women Sort out the Issues
The U.S. Council for Energy Awareness has finally figured out how to sell nuclear power to women. Women have always been a problem to...
score:9, 01/07/1993, ,
Saving the Planet Starts with Doing Your Homework
Kids who want to do something to help the environment get a lot of advice from the media, much of it wrong. For example, in...
score:9, 04/29/1993, ,
Who Will Tell the People
Whatever you do, don't read the book Who Will Tell the People by William Greider. Especially not now, while the powers-that-be are...
score:9, 06/03/1993, ,
How the Ozone Story Became a Volcano Story
F. Sherwood Rowland was surprised by all the volcano questions. As a distinguished atmospheric chemist, the discoverer of the cause of the ozone hole, he...
score:9, 09/01/1993, ,
Resisting the Advent of Ads
In the Western world we've built up resistance to the visual, aural, and mental pollution of advertising. We doubt, we laugh, we turn off...
score:9, 10/14/1993, ,
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THINKING IN SYSTEMS – THE BOOK
"In Dana Meadows's brilliantly integrative worldview, everything causes everything else; cause and effect loop back on themselves. She was the clearest thinker and writer co-creating the art and science of systems dynamics, and Thinking in Systems distills her lifetime of wisdom. This clear, fun-to-read synthesis will help diverse readers everywhere to grasp and harness how our complex world really works."
—Amory B. Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
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