Definition of Sustainability
By Donella Meadows~
For some months I have owed an answer to one of you, who asked for a definition of the word I probably use more often here than any other — sustainability. It has become an international jargon word, with about as many meanings as there are people who use it. Those of us who have talked about sustainability [...]
Dear Folks: January 20, 1995
Hi, dear folks!
I’m roughly over Cleveland on a TWA jet headed for St. Louis (3 hours late). On my way to Monsanto, about which more later. Late because Boston is foggy. Foggy because the greenhouse effect or El Nino or whatever has brought the warmest, longest January thaw I’ve ever seen. Last Sunday and Monday it was 60 degrees at [...]
Dear Folks: November 27, 1994
Dear Folks,
It’s the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and I’ve just permitted myself to put on the Messiah for the first time this holiday season. I’m alone for the weekend and having a great time. Mostly I like it when this house is full of people and activity, which it very much has been lately. But now and again, I enjoy putzing [...]
Envisioning a Sustainable World Video
Donella Meadows “Down to Earth” speech delivered in 1994 at a Sustainability Conference in Costa Rica
Donella Meadows “Down to Earth” Speech from Donella Meadows Institute on Vimeo.
Envisioning a Sustainable World
By Donella Meadows~
Written for the Third Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Economics, October 24-28, 1994, San Jose, Costa Rica1
Key Words
vision, sustainability, hunger, policy
Abstract
Vision is the most vital step in the policy process. If we don’t know where we want to go, it makes little difference that we make great progress. Yet vision is not only missing almost [...]
