Subject: Donella Meadows archives

Posted by Lees Stuntz on 5/31/2004

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>Press Release - May 25, 2004
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>Donella Meadows Archive Goes Public On-Line
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>Educators and others interested in sustainability have a new
>resource - the Donella Meadows Archive. The Archive is an on-line
>library containing nearly 800 sort essays written by the late
>Donella H. Meadows.
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>Donella Meadows was a systems analyst, journalist, college
>professor, international coordinator of resource management
>institutions, and a farmer. She authored or co-authored eight books
>on global systems and environmental and human problems, including
>the newly updated Limits to Growth. In 1985, she began a weekly
>newspaper column, "The Global Citizen," commenting on world events
>from a systems point of view. The column was awarded second place in
>the 1985 Champion-Tuck national competition for outstanding
>journalism in the fields of business and economics. It also received
>the Walter C. Paine Science Education Award in 1990 and was
>nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1991. The column appeared in more
>than 20 papers every week for 15 years.
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>Donella Meadows was extraordinarily productive and inspiring, and
>her influence continues to be felt in many ways. She helped people
>understand global systems with long delays and complex feedbacks,
>while also inspiring many to think about individual choices in our
>daily living. Both of these themes are reflected in her Global
>Citizen columns - engaging short essays filled with insights into
>how the world works now and how it might work better. These columns
>remain immensely useful in helping frame issues and understand the
>complexities of current human and natural systems.
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>That is why Sustainability Institute has established the Donella
>Meadows Archive which now provides public access to a collection of
>15 years worth of Global Citizen columns. In the future the Archive
>will house other writings and speeches of Donella Meadows, plus
>teaching resources developed from her work.
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>To visit the Donella Meadows Archive, go to:
>http://www.sustainer.org/dhm_archive/search.php
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>About The Sustainability Institute
>The Sustainability Institute (SI) was founded by Donella Meadows in
>1996 to apply systems thinking and organizational learning to
>economic, environmental and social challenges. Staff at SI conduct
>research on natural resource systems and provide training and
>consulting in system dynamics to dozens of organizations and
>companies working toward sustainability.
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>Contact
>Diana Wright, DWright@sustainer.org
>Sustainability Institute
>3 Linden Road
>Hartland, VT 05048
>(802) 436-1277