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 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 [...]
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 [...]
What Would the World Be if There Were No Hunger?
By Donella Meadows
–December 17, 1987–
About one out of every eight persons on earth is chronically hungry. The daily death toll from hunger is around 35,000 people, equivalent to 100 fully-loaded jumbo jets crashing EVERY DAY. Most of the victims are children.
Suppose we put a stop to that devastation. What would happen? I don’t mean what process would we go through [...]
