Donella Meadows Archives

Robert Johnson, Strategies for a New Economy Conference

June 9, 2012 “Water and air are priced at zero, meaning in order to breathe, I don’t have to pay a tollgate. On the other hand, if you cut off my air and my water, I would be willing to pay to get it turned back on. So there’s something amiss in the theory of value that doesn’t value these common [...]

Alisa Gravitz, Strategies for a New Economy Conference

June 9, 2012 Alisa Gravitz, the long-time Executive Director of Green America, was invited to give a workshop and speak at a plenary session at the New Economics Institute’s Strategies for a New Economy conference. In the video below, she discusses how families and businesses can take action to shift their involvement from the conventional, “falling apart” economy to the vibrant [...]

Bob Massie, Strategies for a New Economy Conference

June 9, 2012 In this video from the Strategies for a New Economy Conference, Bob Massie, President and CEO of the New Economics Institute, discusses what individuals, businesses, and communities can do to further the New Economy movement.

Life Beyond Growth

By Alan AtKisson Alternatives and Complements to GDP-Measured Growth as a Framing Concept for Social Progress 2012 Annual Survey Report of the Institute for Studies in Happiness, Economy, and Society — ISHES (Tokyo, Japan) Table of Contents Preface A Note on Sources and References Introduction Chapter 1: The Historical Foundations of Economic Growth Chapter 2:The Rise (and Possible Future Fall) of the Growth Paradigm Chapter 3: The Building Blocks [...]

Upper Valley 20/20 – Why a Vision and Why Now?

Using Systems Thinking to Engineer a New Economic Model Talk by William Bittinger January 6, 2012 – Thayer School of Engineering – Dartmouth College

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