Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
Do the Math Tour: We Are Greater Than Fossil Fuels
Posted by Sarah Parkinson, Published: November 29th, 2012
By Sarah Parkinson
2,500 people came to Boston to hear Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein speak (Image credit: 350.org)
If Bill McKibben ever gets tired of the author/activist life, he should consider becoming a math teacher. I’ve certainly never seen anyone else create as much interest as he has in three simple integers.
This past July, McKibben introduced the world to these three numbers in [...]
Voting: A Flawed System, but an Important One
Posted by Sarah Parkinson, Published: November 6th, 2012
By Sarah Parkinson
Donella Meadows’s writing showed that the American election system is far from perfect, but the privilege of voting is still too important to pass up.
Today, Americans vote to decide the next President in the White House. The voting system is imperfect, but our participation is important. (Image credit: MCS@flickr)
Voting, democracy, elections, and campaign reform were all common themes in Donella [...]
Low Tech Yields High Returns in Solving Sustainability Issues
Posted by Sarah Parkinson, Published: November 1st, 2012
By Rolf Huber
High technology can only go so far in resolving the social, health and structural problems that individuals and communities are faced with across the globe, and that’s why the Siemens Stiftung’s “empowering people. Award” aims to get back to the basics. Throughout the world, according to the World Health Organization, 884 million people still lack access to clean water —and [...]
The Sustainability Leaders Network
Posted by Sarah Parkinson, Published: May 30th, 2012
By Sarah Parkinson
Congratulations to Edie Farwell and Dominic Stucker of the Sustainability Leaders Network (SLN) for carrying on the leadership trainings and sustainability work they started through the Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program! The SLN continues to connect and engage with each of DMI’s 74 Fellows to deepen their impact as they address today’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.
In addition to [...]
Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) in the USA!
Posted by Sarah Parkinson, Published: April 17th, 2012
Sterling College, Craftsbury, Vermont
August 15 – September 1, 2012
Last call for applications! Deadline is May 14, 2012
The Donella Meadows Institute (Norwich, Vermont), in collaboration with ACTIS and the Alliance for Global Sustainability (a university partnership between the ETH Zürich, MIT, University of Tokyo, and Chalmers University), is pleased to announce our 2012 Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) course for the first time in [...]
