The Story of Change
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: July 18th, 2012
By Annie Leonard
I used to think the truth would set us free. Like many who care about the environment, I spent years thinking that information would lead to change. If only people realize the mess our planet is in, I thought, things will change. So I wrote reports, gave speeches, even testified before Congress.
I’ve come to see that we have two parts [...]
Global Voices: Land, Loss, Limits, and a Love of Words
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: July 12th, 2012
By Erik Esselstyn
The following essay on the powers that shaped a life–including Donella Meadows’s Limits to Growth–was written by Erik Esselstyn for his Yale 50th Reunion, October 2008.
The Esselstyn family photographed in Blue Hill, Maine, 1978.
A thousand guiding values thread through our lives. In searching for a theme, some linking thread, that flows through my entire life and ties together my many careers, [...]
Global Voices: Luigi Piccioni and The Limits to Growth
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: July 3rd, 2012
By Sarah Parkinson
July 3, 2012
Dr. Luigi Piccioni describes The Limits to Growth as “a seminal lecture in [his] life.” Last year, he wrote the essay “Forty Years Later. The Reception of the Limits to Growth in Italy, 1971-1974“. In it, Dr. Piccioni, a research fellow in the Department of Economy and Statistics at the University of Calabria, Italy, describes the roots of The Limits study and [...]
For Rio+20: A Charter for a New Economy
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: June 20th, 2012
By Gus Speth
The following article is reposted from Solutions Online.
The overarching goal at the upcoming Rio+20 summit must be achieving sustainable prosperity for all. Within this broad objective, the subject is bracketed, if you will, by two of the greatest challenges faced by the international community: the greatest social challenge, world poverty, and the greatest environmental challenge, climate change. There can be [...]
“What if…?” The C-Learn Climate Simulation Tool
Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: June 14th, 2012
By Sarah Parkinson
If we halt deforestation, will we ensure a healthy future planet? If we cut fossil fuel emissions by a quarter, can we maintain a steady global temperature and keep sea levels from rising? If we reduce carbon emissions by half, will we be on track for a sustainable tomorrow?
When dealing with a system as large and complex as planet Earth, it can [...]
