By Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows
The following piece is a short synopsis of Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. The full length book is available at Chelsea Green’s website.
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A Synopsis: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
The signs are everywhere around us:
Sea level has risen [...]
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A Synopsis: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
By Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows
The following piece is a short synopsis of Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. The full length book is available at Chelsea Green’s website.
Chelsea Green (United States & Canada)
Earthscan (United Kingdom and Commonwealth)
Diamond, Inc (Japan)
Kossoth Publishing Company (Hungary)
A Synopsis: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
The signs are everywhere around us:
Sea level has risen [...]
Dancing With Systems
By Donella Meadows
–Versions of this piece have been published in Whole Earth, winter 2001 and The Systems Thinker, Vol. 13, No. 2 (March 2002).–
The Dance
1. Get the beat.
2. Listen to the wisdom of the system.
3. Expose your mental models to the open air.
4. Stay humble. Stay a learner.
5. Honor and protect information.
6. Locate responsibility in the system.
7. Make feedback policies [...]
Le Monde n’est pas une Marchandise. Moi Non Plus. (The World is not For Sale. Me Neither.)
By Hal Hamilton and Donella Meadows
–July 13, 2000–
Jose Bove milks 250 sheep in the Larzac region of France, a rocky, windswept place where you would think no farmer could produce anything. But Bove turns sheep milk into one of the gastronomical treasures of the world, Roquefort cheese. Bove is a leader of the local Roquefort producers association and of the [...]
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
By Donella Meadows~
Folks who do systems analysis have a great belief in “leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything.
This idea is not unique to systems analysis — it’s embedded in legend. The silver bullet, [...]
Indicators and Information Systems for Sustainable Development
By Donella Meadows~
Indicators are natural, everywhere, part of everyone’s life. Intuitively we all use indicators to monitor complex systems we need to care about or control. We have many words for indicator – sign, system, omen, signal, tip, clue, grade, rank, data, pointer, dial, warning light, instrument, measurement. Indicators are a necessary part of the stream of information we use [...]
