I’m Dreaming of A Solar Powered Christmas
by Elizabeth Sawin
— November 30, 2001 —
This Christmas season, we’re bombing Afghanistan, and perhaps contributing to mass starvation there. We stand apart from the rest of the world on climate change, ignoring the melting ice at the North Pole and the rising global temperature. The killing and bombing and starving are bad enough, but we’re not just at war with [...]
Systems Thinking Primer for Natural Capitalism: The Four Basic Shifts
By Peter Senge, Don Seville, Amory Lovins, and Chris Lotspeich~
Overview and Goal of Primer
The aim of this primer is to develop a common “systems language” for thinking, communicating, and building shared knowledge for building environmentally sustainable enterprises and industries. As societies and organizations around the world gradually shift to seeing environmental sustainability as a strategic imperative, there is a growing [...]
Beautiful World: A Bridge Between the Arts and Sustainability
By Melita Rogelj
What is the role — and the potential — of the arts in bringing about sustainability? That was the question pursued by Sustainability Institute intern Melita Rogelj as her Master’s thesis for the School for International Training in Vermont (graduated in 2000).
Melita, also a graduate of the prestigious LEAD program (www.lead.org), set out to answer the following questions [...]
Trying to Measure Which Nations Are Sustainable
by Donella Meadows
— February 17, 2000 —
Every year at the peak of the Alpine ski season the world’s movers and shakers, the heads of the largest corporations and wealthiest governments, head for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This year an event occurred there that was largely unreported but possibly historic. The attendees were presented with a ranking of [...]
The World’s Top Five Consumers in Many Categories
by Donella Meadows
— August 5, 1999 —
Singapore, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, United States, Norway. Those are the world’s five top nations, in descending order, in — well, what category would you guess?
If you say income per capita, you’re close, but no cigar. Since the 1985 oil price crash, the Middle East no longer dominates the list of the world’s richest [...]
