Urban Growth Means Lower Taxes – And Other Myths
by Donella Meadows — February 25, 1999 — We need to bring in business to bring down taxes. This development will give us jobs. Environmental protection will hurt the economy. Growth is good for us....
View ArticleIf We Don’t Like Sprawl, Why Do We Go On Sprawling?
by Donella Meadows — March 4, 1999 — We have planning boards. We have zoning regulations. We have urban growth boundaries and “smart growth” and sprawl conferences. And we still have sprawl....
View ArticleSo What Can We Do – Really Do – About Sprawl?
by Donella Meadows — March 11, 1999 — In my mind St. Louis is the poster city for sprawl. It has a glittering, high-rise center where fashionable people work, shop and party. Surrounding the center...
View ArticleSocial Security Is No Problem, Unless We Make It One
by Donella Meadows — April 7, 1999 — Overshadowed by the agony of Kosovo, outshouted by the Dow crossing ten thousand, a surprising news item appeared on page 6 or 15 or so of most American newspapers...
View ArticleThere’s What They Tell Us – And What They Don’t Tell Us
by Donella Meadows — September 9, 1999 — What they tell us: The income tax is unfair. The top one percent of income earners pay one-third of all income tax. What they don’t tell us: The reason the top...
View ArticleRhetoric About Taxes, Facts About Taxes
by Donella Meadows — April 27, 2000 — I’m not sure how or when our political arena became so infested with dubious “facts.” However it happened, we ordinary citizens don’t have time to separate the...
View ArticleThe Death Tax Does Not Deserve To Die
by Donella Meadows — September 21, 2000 — Last month the Republican Congress nearly managed to wipe out the inheritance tax — which Republicans call the “death tax,” as if it were a severance tax on...
View ArticleElectricity Restructuring and Faith in the Market
By Donella Meadows –January 18, 2001—- As blackouts roll through California, the New Hampshire Supreme Court just cleared the way for electrical restructuring, while a Vermont utility assures...
View ArticleSustainable Agriculture for Midsized Farms
by Hal Hamilton — August 2003 — How can sustainable agriculture gain greater traction, particularly for midrange farmers? Although small farms, particularly those around metropolitan regions, are...
View ArticleBuilding a Green Economy
By Paul Krugman The following article was originally published in the New York Times Magazine on April 7, 2010. If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to discredit...
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