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System Dynamics Meets The Press: A few good concepts can make a big difference
By Donella H. Meadows
–Fall 1989–
Donella H. (Dana) Meadows, co-author of The Limits to Growth, now writes a self-syndicated newspaper column called “The Global Citizen” that appears in 20 papers and occasionally gets national syndication through the Los Angeles Times. With this, her fifth consecutive contribution to IN CONTEXT, she takes on a title – Contributing Editor – that describes what [...]
Harvesting One Hundredfold: Key Concepts and Case Studies in Environmental Education
By Donella H. Meadows
United Nations Environment Programme, 1989
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword
Author’s Acknowledgements
I. INTRODUCTION
II. ABOUT THIS BOOK
III. WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT
A. What is Environmental Education?
B. Why Environmental Education?
IV. THE KEY CONCEPTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
A. Levels of Being
B. Cycles
C. Complex Systems
D. Population Growth and Carrying Capacity
E. Ecologically Sustainable Development
F. Socially Sustainable [...]
Who Needs Florida, Anyway? Scientists need to help us prevent climate change, not adapt to it
By Donella Meadows
–Summer 1989–
The urgency of climate change calls for leadership from some unusual quarters. Environmental author and columnist Dana Meadows comments here on the role scientists – a group generally not known for activism – need to play in averting global climate change. Her writing has been appearing regularly in IN CONTEXT, and she also writes a weekly column [...]
Thoughts While Cleaning The Living Room: Domestic work is undervalued – but it doesn’t need to be
By Donella Meadows
–Spring 1989–
Families are work, and most of the work gets done by women. In his classic book Home, Inc. (Doubleday, 1975), Scott Burns concluded that the total value of goods and services produced in households (but neither sold nor compensated with wages) was about one-third the value of the entire market economy. His prediction that the “household economy” would [...]
The Future of the Army: Military institutions could be on the front lines in a very different kind of battle
By Donella Meadows
–Winter 1989–
The borders between differing groups do not always fall on national frontiers. Donella (Dana) Meadows, author of the classic Limits to Growthand a weekly newspaper column called “The Global Citizen,” ventured over one of these borders to meet a group of military planners charting the future for the U.S. Army. The result of this novel collaboration was a [...]
