Posted by Dominic
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:44:00 GMT
On May 29, 1990, Donella Meadows published a text titled “State of the Village Report.”
The text starts off with “If the world were a village of 1000 people:….”
It takes you through a tale of how those 1000 people would be divided up, rich and poor, various nationalities, religion, political power, et cetera.
Ms. Meadows passed away in February of 2000, but her concept is still alive.
Sustainability Institute, through Donella’s Foundation. has released the third version (with updated figures) of her idea.
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Posted by Dominic
Sat, 03 Nov 2007 04:28:00 GMT
I suppose some of you might wonder what the deal was with the whole “Screw the world” topic yesterday….
Yeah, I wondered that myself. All I remember, was that the name of the brilliant blog entry that I lost (may it’s soul rest in peace), was “Screw the world” - and that it marginally had something to do with an IM conversation with Rebecca.
Aha! After sufficient digging around in my history, I figured out what the reference was from. I was grumbling about the nablopomo site not having an easy way to import/rss-suck-in your real blog posts, instead providing a means to post blog entries (thus requiring you to double-post, in essence).
To which my response was: Maybe I’ll just blog… and screw the world :)
So yeah, I’m not double-blogging - heavens know I am having enough trouble keeping up with this blog, I don’t need yet another blog to worry about.
So keep watching this spot, people. It might actually get interesting. :)
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