Donella (Dana) Meadows inspired countless individuals with her pioneering work in systems thinking, her strong voice in support of a just and sustainable world, and her undefeatable optimism. Her ideas and writing remain as influential today as ever. The Global Citizens blog is an ever-growing collection of reports, reflections, commentaries, thoughts, and stories by people striving to fulfill Dana's vision of a world that aligns environmental, social, and economic systems. Read on to learn more about this vision and what it means at all scales.

Tribute to Dana Meadows

Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: April 22nd, 2001

By John M. Richardson Jr. ~Professor of International Development, American University~ Global modelling has been described as a science, struggling with problems too large for the participants, but too important to ignore. Global modelers, however, were often seen as a fractious bunch of academics, more preoccupied with making each other wrong than addressing the threats faced by a vulerable human species, living [...]

Reflection on Dana

Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: April 22nd, 2001

By Dennis Meadows ~University of New Hampshire Faculty~ I have had over two months to accept the reality of Dana’s passing; I have not managed it yet. I have had two months to find appropriate words to share on this day who all those who have gathered in her memory. I have not managed to do that either. There is just too [...]

Dana the Teacher — Unearthing our Visions and Driving us Nuts

Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: April 22nd, 2001

By Andrew Jones ~Former Student and Current Sustainability Institute Staff~ My name is Drew Jones. I was a student of Dana’s here at Dartmouth back in the late 80s and now work at Sustainability Institute, the organization she founded three years ago. I want to tell you a story about Dana and share something she wrote about her students. Overall, I want to [...]

Tribute to Dana Meadows

Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: April 22nd, 2001

By Priscilla Sears ~Professor, English Department, Dartmouth College~ I am Priscilla Sears from the English Department. Dana was my colleague, my friend, and often my sustainer. After the publication of Beyond the Limits Dana told me that the editors had insisted that she shorten the comments about love as a sina qua non of sustainability. She comments about love on the cover [...]

Tribute to Dana Meadows

Posted by Kindle Loomis, Published: April 22nd, 2001

By Vicki Smith ~Upper Valley Community Planner~ Greetings. I work as a community planner, currently for the town of Hanover and live on a beautiful south facing hillside where Spring has arrived. I was asked to talk about the early days of the Upper Valley Land Trust, a regional land trust, started here in the Upper Valley 15 years ago with Dana leading the [...]

About The Donella Meadows Project

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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