Donella Meadows Archives

The Laws of the Earth and the Laws of Economics

By Donella Meadows –December 12, 1996– The first commandment of economics is: grow.  Grow forever. Companies must get bigger.  National economies need to swell by a certain percent each year.  People should want more, make more, earn more, spend more, ever more. The first commandment of the Earth is: enough.  Just so much and no more.  Just so much soil.  Just so much [...]
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Going Too Far

By Donella Meadows –December 16, 1993– When she was 16, Breezy Osborne suggested that her father Jennings string up some Christmas lights on their million-dollar house in Little Rock, Arkansas.  He had fun doing it.  So the next year he added more lights.  And the next year still more. Seven Christmases later the two-acre Osborne yard featured angels, a 60-foot tree, a Micky [...]
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Donella Meadows Legacy

About The Donella Meadows Project

The mission of the Donella Meadows Project is to preserve Donella (Dana) H. Meadows’s legacy as an inspiring leader, scholar, writer, and teacher; to manage the intellectual property rights related to Dana’s published work; to provide and maintain a comprehensive and easily accessible archive of her work online, including articles, columns, and letters; to develop new resources and programs that apply her ideas to current issues and make them available to an ever-larger network of students, practitioners, and leaders in social change.  Read More

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