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Why Dana Meadows as the mother of Integral Permaculture?
Dana Meadows was a pioneering environmental scientist, a great system thinker & educator, a leading voice in the environmental movement. She is best known for being the lead author of Limits to Growth, a milestone which alerted the world to the unsustainable course the western model of development was taking, back in 1972. The book, which reported on a study of long-term global trends in population, economics, and the environment, sold millions of copies and was translated into 28 languages & inspired the birth of permaculture, amongst its many of other important influences. A long-time organic farmer, professor & journalist, Meadows had a unique insight, passion & ability for translating the complexities of systems dynamics into practical action-points, some of this we will explore during this class.
We met Dana previously & briefly in Module 1, under Pioneers & Thinkers
Donella Meadows is co-author of Limits to Growth, with Dennis Meadow (her husband), amongst others.
This is a clip from the documentary "Earth Days (2009)" in which Dennis Meadows explains exponential growth, overshoot and collapse of society- from the 1972 study/book "The Limits to Growth"
Leading voice in the sustainability movement, Mac Arthur Fellow, Pew Scholar, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Honoree
Professor & Farmer
Professor & Farmer
Dr. Donella H. Meadows (Ph.D. in biophysics, Harvard University), the founder of the Sustainability Institute, was a professor at Dartmouth College, a long-time organic farmer, a journalist, and a systems analyst. She was honored both as a Pew Scholar in Conservation and Environment and as a Mac Arthur Fellow.
Writer
Writer
For 16 years Donella wrote a weekly column called "The Global Citizen," commenting on world events from a systems point of view. It appeared in more than twenty newspapers, won second place in the 1985 Champion-Tuck national competition for outstanding journalism in the fields of business and economics, received the Walter C. Paine Science Education Award in 1990, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1991.
Donella was the author or co-author of nine books, including:
The Limits to Growth (1972)
The Electronic Oracle: Computer Models and Social Decisions (1983)
The Global Citizen (1991)
Beyond the Limits (1992)
The Limits to Growth - the 30 Year Update (2004)
Limits to Growth
Limits to Growth
Systems Analyst, Journalist, Writer, Teacher, Farmer
System Analyst
System Analyst
The Mother of Integral Permaculture
Donella H. "Dana" Meadows (March 13, 1941 Elgin, Illinois, USA - February 20, 2001, Hanover, New Hampshire) was a pioneering American environmental scientist, teacher and writer.
She is best known as lead author of the influential book The Limits to Growth, which made headlines around the world.
Places to Intervene in a System
This is a public collection of the work of Donella (Dana) Meadows. Through her writing and speaking, Dana helped people understand global systems with long delays and complex feedbacks, while also inspiring many to think about individual choices in daily living.
Here you will find 15 years worth of essays published as the award winning weekly Global Citizen column.
Check out all of her articles here.
Summer 2001, YES Magazine
Meadows applies what she has learned about systems to the human spirit.
20 quotes from Donella Meadows
Just So Much and No More - Economics vs. the Earth
Just So Much and No More, by Donella Meadows. We don't get to choose which laws, those of the economy or those of the Earth, will ultimately prevail.
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Important Articles by Donella Meadows
Visioning Lecture
Visioning Lecture
A classic video.. the only one in youTube of Dana Meadows (so far..)
See the Visioning page for why this is so important in designing anything effectively,
and the Collective Visions page for the challenges ahead of us in terms of making truly permacultural mass-visioning even possible...
Recorded by Peter Gressinger in October of 1994
at the International Society of Ecological Economics Conference in Costa Rica.
~ Courtesy of Griesinger Films
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From the Squidoo page
Scientist, Global Citizen and Earth Missionary
Scientist, Global Citizen and Earth Missionary
Welcome to my page honoring Donella "Dana" Meadows, founder of the Sustainability Institute(now the Donella Meadows Institute) and lead author of the books, 'Limits to Growth' and 'Beyond the Limits'.
With a passion for the earth and an amazing intellect, she was a pioneer in applying systems thinking to critical issues such as poverty, population growth and consumption, and ecological degradation.
Meadows also helped author the State of the Village Report, also called The Miniature Earth Project, where the world was pictured as a village of 1,000 people. See the video below.
Besides being a brilliant scientist, she was also a poetic writer. Read on to learn more about this amazing woman, whose life was cut short by cancer.
What is sustainability?
It is like a three-legged stool.
Environment, economy, and society
all need to be in balance.
The Miniature Earth Project
The Miniature Earth Project
inspired by Donella Meadows
Donella Meadows was the original author of "The State of the Village Report", where the world was pictured as a village of 1,000 people. The following video by the Miniature Earth Project" was inspired by this report.
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“opinionated columnist,
perpetual fund-raiser,
fanatic gardener,
opera-lover,
baker, farmer,
teacher”
A Beautiful, Poetic Writer
One of Meadows' articles is my favorite of all time. It begins ...
"The earth was formed whole and continuous, without lines." And ends with ...
"Even between you and me, even there, the lines are of our own making."
Download the entire article here.
"Your paradigm is so intrinsic
to your mental process that you
are hardly aware of its existence,
until you try to communicate with
someone with a different paradigm."
~ Donella Meadows
The Donella Meadows Institute
The Donella Meadows Institute
The The Donella Meadows Institute was founded in 1996 to apply systems thinking and organizational learning to economic, environmental and social challenges.
Their mission is to help shift mindsets and restructure systems that are out of step with the realities facing a limited planet. Services include workshops and courses, consulting, and Dana Meadows Fellows. Resources include the complete Donella Meadows archive, papers, columns, games, and models.
Beyond the Limits
Beyond the Limits
Recommended Book by Donella Meadows
Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future
by: Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows
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More Books
More Books
by or about Donella Meadows
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
by: Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows
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by: Donella H. Meadows
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Toward Global Equilibrium: Collected Papers
by: Donella M. Meadows
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by: Donella Meadows, Donella H. Meadows
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Videos Inspired by Donella Meadows
Videos Inspired by Donella Meadows
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The Earth Says:
Rejoice! You have been born into a world of self-maintaining abundance and incredible beauty.
Feel it, taste it, be amazed by it.
Who's Blogging?
Who's Blogging?
... about Donella Meadows
Donella Meadows; Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress
A List of Blogs on Wordpress about Donella Meadows
Donella Meadows’ Leverage Points :: Dan Lockton
How do people use products, systems and environments? How can designers influence interaction? How can we design for sustainable behaviour?
Dennis Meadows & Updates to "Limits to Growth"
Dennis Meadows & Updates to "Limits to Growth"
Economics & Limits to Growth (video title in YouTube): Dennis Meadows was Dana's husband & co-author of Limits to Growth, here he talks about the 30year-update,
Part 2
Part 3
Learning to Live within Limits
Learning to Live within Limits
Japan Prize, 2009 Commemorative Lecture by Dr. Dennis L. Meadows
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