Lindisfarne Tape Series
Donella Meadows and Dennis Meadows both served on the faculty at Dartmouth College for almost thirty years. In the recordings below, they discuss their roles as teachers, their approach to education, and their work and ideas at that time. The recordings were made in 1976 at the Fellows meeting at Lindisfarne in New York, which focused on “Economics and the [...]
The History of The Limits to Growth
By Jørgen Stig Nørgård, John Peet, Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir
Introduction
A pioneering report, The Limits to Growth, published in 1972, marked a turning point in thinking about the environment, selling some 30 million copies in 30 languages.1 The two-year study behind the report took place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the request of the Club of Rome, an international group of distinguished business people, state [...]
Thirty Years Later the Idea of Limits to Growth Is More Important Than Ever
by Elizabeth Sawin
— September 2, 2004 —
Pick up the newspaper on any day and you are likely to find plenty of bad news about humanity’s impact on the Earth. From the global to the regional to the local, if you are feeling pessimistic you can find all sorts of “proof” that humanity is well on the way to self-destruction.
If you [...]
The Balaton Bulletin
Newsletter of the Balaton Group, April 2001
Special Memorial Edition for Donella “Dana” Meadows, 1941-2001
Table of Contents
Editors’ Introduction, by Nanda Gilden and Niels Meyer
How The Limits to Growth Happened, by Dana Meadows
Close Friends — Distant Lives, by Joan Davis
“Love, Dana”, by Alan AtKisson
The Brightest Star in the Sky, by Alan AtKisson
Letter to Dana, by Aromar Revi
Dana Meadows: The Second-to-Last Chapter, by [...]
Tools for the Transition to Sustainability
Chapter 8 of Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2004)
By Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows
We must be careful not to succumb to despair, for there is still the odd glimmer of hope.
-Edouard Saouma, 1993
Can we move nations and people in the direction of sustainability? Such a move would be a modification of society comparable in scale [...]
