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    YES Comes to Vermont
    YES, the internationally recognized training course designed to help young sustainability leaders create a more just, equitable and sustainable society comes to Vermont this summer. Apply today - applications are due by May 14! Read more...
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    "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." —Donella Meadows Read more...
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    Our Mission
    “To bring economic, social and environmental systems into closer harmony with the realities of a finite planet and a globally powerful human race by using the disciplines of systems thinking, system dynamics and collaborative learning that were pioneered by our founder, Donella Meadows.”   Read more...
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Global CitizensDana’s Friends, Fellows, Colleagues, Students & Collaborators

Dana Meadows Fellows

The Donella Meadows Fellowship Program was created with the goal of accelerating the shift to global sustainability by increasing the effectiveness of well-positioned, mid-career sustainability leaders. While the Fellowship Program itself is not now accepting applications for future cohorts, the Institute is proud of its work and our extraordinary group of Fellows. The Institute intends to re-launch the Fellowship program in the not-too-distant future and is now developing the likely precursor to its next phase: training youth for sustainability leadership. Read More

Global Citizens Blog

To honor its founder, Donella (Dana) Meadows, the Sustainability Institute adopted her name and committed the organization to preserving, promoting and broadly disseminating her legacy. One of Dana’s greatest legacies is the vast network of friends, students, and colleagues that influenced, and were influenced by, her life and work. If you are one of those folks, we want to hear about you, your work and, if you’re willing, the story of how Dana’s life and work impacted your own. We begin the blog by featuring Tributes to Dana and by recognizing the individuals who kept the Sustainability Institute alive and growing after her death... Read More

Fellow Travelers

Donella Meadows sometimes used the term “Fellow Travelers” to describe friends and colleagues who shared her vision of a just and sustainable path for humanity. The term also aptly describes the many organizations that are, like the Institute, working to achieve that goal. We begin by featuring some of the organizations that were directly influenced by Donella’s life and work and hope you’ll help us discover and strengthen the connections ... Read More

Donella Meadows Legacy

About DMI

Amidst the proliferation of sustainability institutes around the world today one name is recognized virtually everywhere. Consequently, during 2011 – ten years after Dana died – we decided to change our name from the Sustainability Institute to the Donella Meadows Institute. In doing so we took time to reflect on her mission and recommit to her qualities of careful listening, truth telling and systems analysis. Like the golden rule, from which these qualities derive, her methods have a universality that will not fade.  Read More

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