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IW: Donella Meadows was a hero of mine. She was brilliant, and very human. She was taken from us way too soon. The Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System essay that this article talks about is a breath-taking introduction to systems thinking.
Donella Meadows was one of my great mentors. She, Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers were authors of the revolutionary 1974 Limits to Growth Report. These MIT early systems thinkers had the audacity to reveal the results of their computer modeling of resource flows – to wit, sometime early in the next millennium we’d hit multiple resource walls and systems could start crashing. They were lauded and vilified. Now they are being proven right – unfo … Read More
via Your Money or Your Life – Official Website – Vicki Robin
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Thanks for the link. I am following your blog now. systems thinking and sustainability are a fascinating subject