Donella Meadows Archives

Perspectives on Limits to Growth: It is too late for sustainable development

Dennis Meadows speaks about the contributions of Limits to Growth, the changes in his understanding of those limits over the past 40 years, and his proposal that we should now shift the focus of our energies from sustainability to resilience. Dennis Meadows is one of the original authors of the Limits to Growth study. Roberto Peccei, a member of the Executive Committee [...]
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Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Remarks

Katherine Lorenz, President of the Cynthia and George Mitchell Family Foundation, provides opening remarks for the 40th anniversary celebration of Limits to Growth held in Washington DC on March 1, 2012.
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Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Remarks

Ian Johnson’s opening remarks at the symposium to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Limits to Growth. Johnson is the Secretary General of the Club of Rome, the group to which Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, and Jørgen Randers first submitted their groundbreaking report.
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Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Opening Remarks

The Smithsonian Institution’s Secretary Wayne Clough provides the opening remarks for the Limits to Growth 40th anniversary celebration. The talk was part of the event Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Challenges to Building a Sustainable Planet hosted by the Smithsonian Institution and the Club of Rome.
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Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Welcome and Introduction

John Kress provides the welcome and introduction to the 40th anniversary celebration of the book’s publication. The event, hosted by the Club of Rome and the Smithsonian Institution’s Consortium for Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet, took place on March 1, 2012.  
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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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