Doug Erwin speaks about the challenges of preserving biodiversity on our planet as part of the symposium to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Limits to Growth held in Washington DC in March 2012.
Doug Erwin is a paleobiologist and evolutionary biologist. He works as a Senior Scientist in the Department of Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural History and as [...]
Lester Brown speaks about his ideas to sustain civilization through cutting carbon emissions, stabilizing the global population, eradicating poverty, and restoring our resource bases at the 40th anniversary celebration of Limits to Growth. Lester Brown is the founder of both the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute and the author of many books on sustainability, agriculture, economics, and society.
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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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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