Donella Meadows
Donella Meadows
Donella H. "Dana" Meadowswas a pioneering American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer. She is best known as lead author of the influential book The Limits to Growth and Thinking in Systems: a Primer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEnvironmentalist
Date of Birth14 March 1941
CountryUnited States of America
parks glaciers national-parks
Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park
sides jury prosecutor
A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor
cutting issues tree
You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.
tasks forests politician
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
cutting netherlands denmark
Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.
trying topics procedures
I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
vision pages path
A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]
trust-no-one reason lied
What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.
light appreciate perfect
How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?
climate climate-change nations
The European nations take climate change very seriously.
spiritual moving mean
I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains itself unchanged. I mean a world that evolves, as life on earth has evolved for three billion years, toward ever greater diversity, elegance, beauty, self-awareness, interrelationship, and spiritual realization.
diversity earth gone
Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?
people vision credit
The sustainability revolution will be organic. It will arise from the visions, insights, experiments and actions of billions of people. The burden of making it happen is not on the shoulders of any one person or group. No one will get the credit, but everyone can contribute.
moving goal leader
A good leader sets the right goals, gets things moving, and helps us to discover that we already know what to do.