Archive for the ‘Thinking in Systems’ Category
Video: Sustainable Systems Lecture
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: June 26th, 2017
Learning about sustainable systems from writings and video lectures of Donella (Dana) Meadows is greatly inspiring, uplifting, and enriching. On YouTube, there is video of Dana presenting a lecture on sustainable systems at the University of Michigan. I believe that this talk was a part of the University of Michigan’s Sustainability Lecture Series on March 18, 1999. The following is [...]
Coming Back to Our Systems Roots
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: April 1st, 2015
We live in a world of remarkable, adaptable, complex systems. They are inside of us and all around us, from the tiny system of a single cell to the vast systems of the world’s oceans and our global communications networks.
Systems can be examined by zooming in to look closely at their stocks and flows and other component parts, or by [...]
Putting the New Economy in Context
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: October 7th, 2014
Three weeks ago I joined more than three hundred thousand people at the People’s Climate March in NYC. As we anxiously waited to start marching, a wave of silence spread from person to person up 60 blocks from the front of the crowd. Our thoughts went out to people from the Andes, arctic regions, and island nations who already have [...]
Food Sovereignty: Solutions are as Interconnected as Problems
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: July 1st, 2014
“People are not hungry in this rich country because there is too little food or money or organization. They are hungry because food, money, and organizations are not used for the purpose of once-and-for-all ending hunger. What is lacking is public commitment, or as some call it, political will.”
–Donella Meadows, 1986, Hands Across White River Junction
Kylie gleaning carrots with Willing [...]
Last Call: The complicated story of a study’s simple findings
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: April 8th, 2014
By Sarah Parkinson
Challenging the Existing Paradigm—
The message of Limits to Growth is disarmingly simple: we cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet. Earth’s supplies of habitable land, fresh water, arable soil, mineral resources, and more will not be able to continuously satisfy the needs of a rapidly expanding global population and its increasing material demands.
Dennis Meadows addresses the audience [...]
