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  Donella Meadows
Donella Meadows (March 13, 1941 Elgin, Illinois, USA - February 20, 2001, New Hampshire) was a pioneering environmental scientist, a teacher and writer.
In 1981, Donella Meadows founded the International Network of Resource Information Centers (INRIC[?]), a global process of information sharing and collaboration among hundreds of leading academics, researchers, and activists in the broader sustainability movement.
She was the founder of the Sustainability Institute[?], combining research in global systems with practical demonstrations of sustainable living, including the development of an ecovillage and organic farm.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/do/Donella_Meadows.html   (349 words)

  
 Donella Meadows (1941-2001) (Features) Jay Walljasper, Jon Spayde, and editors of Utne Reader
At age 30, just two years out of grad school, Donella Meadows mounted a full-scale assault on the conventional wisdom confidently espoused by politicians, business leaders, economists, and the scientific establishment.
Reflecting on that experience, Meadows recalled how she was caught off guard by the ferocity of attacks from business, universities, and government.
Meadows and two of her co-authors updated their work in 1992 using advanced computer models that created future scenarios based upon current trends in 249 ecological, economic, and demographic variables.
www.utne.com /issues/2001_105/features/2029-1.html   (305 words)

  
 Donella Meadows - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Donella "Dana" Meadows (March 13, 1941 Elgin, Illinois, USA - February 20, 2001, New Hampshire) was a pioneering environmental scientist, a teacher and writer.
Meadows was the founder of the Sustainability Institute, combining research in global systems with practical demonstrations of sustainable living, including the development of an ecovillage and organic farm.
Meadows was honored both as a Pew Scholar in Conservation and Environment and as a MacArthur Fellow.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donella_Meadows   (650 words)

  
 Dr. Dennis Meadows Seminar
Meadows is perhaps best known for his work with the MIT team that produced the global computer simulation model "World3" in 1972.
Meadows holds a Ph.D. in management from M.I.T. in addition to honorary doctorates from three European universities acknowledging his contributions to international environmental policy analysis and computer-aided education.
Meadows, Donella H., Meadows, Dennis L., Randers, J. & Behrens III, W.W. The limits to growth : a report for The Club of Rome's project on the predicament of mankind.
www.ec.gc.ca /seminar/meadows_e.html   (1139 words)

  
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Professor Meadows, known as "Dana" to friends and colleagues, was a leading voice in what has become known as the "sustainability movement," an international effort to reverse damaging trends in the environment, economy, and social systems.
Donella Meadows was born March 13, 1941 in Elgin, Illinois, and educated in science, earning a B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College in 1963 and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University in 1968.
Donella Meadows is survived by her mother, Phoebe Quist of Tahlequah, Oklahoma; her father, Don Hager of the Chicago area; a brother, Jason Hager, of Wisconsin; cousins and nephews; and a large community of colleagues and friends, both international and local, in the organizations that she founded and assisted.
www.albany.edu /cpr/sds/newsletters/apr01newsletter/apr01donella.html   (656 words)

  
 Society for Organizational Learning
Donella Meadows was born March 13, 1941 in Elgin, Illinois, and trained as a scientist, earning a B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College in 1963 and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University in 1968.
Donella Meadows served on the Board of Directors of the Hunger Project, the Winrock International Livestock Research Center, and the Trust for New Hampshire Lands.
Donella Meadows is survived by her mother of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, her father, Don Hager of Palatine, Illinois, a brother, Jason Hager, of Waterford, Wisconsin, and cousins and nephews.
www.solonline.org /Meadows/MeadowsDartmouthObit.html   (938 words)

  
 21 Feb 01 - Donella Meadows
Donella (Dana) Meadows, one of the leading voices of the sustainability and simplicity movements, died on Tuesday, Feb. 20, from bacterial meningitis.
Dana Meadows was a professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College, director of the Sustainability Institute in Vermont, and the author of several books and hundreds of essays and columns.
In 1972, Donella Meadows was on the team at MIT that produced the global computer model "World3" for the Club of Rome.
www.nwpcarchive.org /postings/00200.html   (1498 words)

  
 AlterNet: Author: Donella H. Meadows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Donella Meadows thinks she should be writing about how the grinches in Congress are trying to eviscerate the Endangered Species Act, or about their latest tricks for stomping on the poor while handing the nation's resources to the rich, or about their lack of interest in hearing public comment on these depredations.
Donella Meadows on the limits of the free market: "The market is not a cure-all, not a religion, not endowed with wisdom or a conscience or a soul.
Donella Meadows on the mood of America: "The voices of intolerance, cruelty, and greed are increasingly fashionable.
www.alternet.org /authors/2009/?pos=2   (3458 words)

  
 State of the Village Report Sources - ODT
The article was written by Dartmouth professor, Donella Meadows, in her weekly column entitled "The Global Citizen." Reaching out on a grassroots level to local readers, Donella Meadows presented a very accessible framework for understanding the world as a fabric of physical, economic, or social relationships that determine world development.
Donella worked to shift mindsets and to help build the awareness and educate others about what an individual could do to help manage complex environmental, social and economic systems of which we are all a part.
Donella's statistics describing the world as 1000 people were subsequently published and distributed on 50,000 posters during the 1992 Earth Summit.
www.odt.org /popvillagesources.htm   (1331 words)

  
 Conscious Choice: Remembering Donella Meadows
Donella Meadows (1941-2001), the co-author of Limits to Growth, was an influential champion of sustainability.
Meadows didn’t just dream about a sustainable world, she created a prototype of it at Cobb Hill, an ecovillage where she lived near Hartland, Vermont.
It’s also the home of Meadows’ Sustainability Institute, where she wrote, researched, and taught about an alternative vision of the future.
www.consciouschoice.com /2001/cc1404/citizen1404.html   (901 words)

  
 Donella Meadows Tribute - Policy Development, Inc.
Donella Meadows collaborated with two other scientists and wrote a ground-breaking book in 1972 called The Limits To Growth.
Meadows and her colleagues place hope in a combination of ever advancing technologies that help us use resources more efficiently, and a cultural change in behavior - a spiritual sea change.
Meadows explains telling a friend about the polar bear at the top of the food chain at the top of the world.
www.policy-development.com /donellameadows.aspx   (1139 words)

  
 AmeriScan: February 21, 2001
Meadows was best known as the lead author of the 1972 international best seller, "The Limits to Growth." The book, which reported on a study of long term global trends in population, economics and the environment, sold millions of copies and was translated into 28 languages.
Meadows was also the lead author of the 20 year follow up study, "Beyond the Limits", published in 1992 with original co-authors Dennis Meadows and Jørgen Randers.
In 1997, Professor Meadows founded the Sustainability Institute, which she described as a "think-do-tank." The Institute combines research in global systems with practical demonstrations of sustainable living, including the development of an ecological village and organic farm in Hartland Four Corners, Vermont.
www.ens-newswire.com /ens/feb2001/2001-02-21-09.asp   (2349 words)

  
 Donella Meadows, Lead Author of The Limits to Growth, Has Died
This is one of those occasions as Nancy notes the death of Donella Meadows.
In her weekly column, the Global Citizen, Donella Meadows reported on the large and small events around us, the trends and potentialities of human actions and natural forces, and reminded us of our role in sustaining this planet and our own lives.
We counted Donella Meadows as a neighbor, living in the next town.
comm-org.wisc.edu /pipermail/colist/2001-February/001391.html   (487 words)

  
 Donella Meadows Tribute - Policy Development, Inc.
Donella Meadows collaborated with two other scientists and wrote a ground-breaking book in 1972 called The Limits To Growth.
Meadows and her colleagues place hope in a combination of ever advancing technologies that help us use resources more efficiently, and a cultural change in behavior - a spiritual sea change.
Meadows explains telling a friend about the polar bear at the top of the food chain at the top of the world.
www.goodgroupdecisions.com /donellameadows.aspx   (1139 words)

  
 LIMITS TO GROWTH: The 30 Year Update by Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
How to seize the opportunity, how to bring into being a world that is not only sustainable, functional, and equitable but also deeply desirable is a question of leadership and ethics and vision and courage, properties not of computer models but of the human heart and soul.
*Donella Meadows, who died unexpectedly in 2001, was a systems analyst and adjunct professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College.
Dennis Meadows is a professor of Systems Management and director of the Institute for Policy and Social Science research at the University of New Hampshire.
www.popco.org /press/articles/2005-1-meadows.html   (5419 words)

  
 Learning-Org Feb 2001: Donella Meadows LO26236
Meadows' which was prepared by her office at Dartmouth.
Donella Meadows was born March 13, 1941 in Elgin, Illinois, and educated
Donella Meadows is survived by her mother, Phoebe Quist of Tahlequah
www.learning-org.com /01.02/0206.html   (771 words)

  
 SI: Donella Meadows Bio.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Dr. Donella H. Meadows (Ph.D. in biophysics, Harvard University), the founder of the Sustainability Institute, was a professor at Dartmouth College, a long-time organic farmer, a journalist, and a systems analyst.
For 16 years Donella wrote a weekly column called "The Global Citizen," commenting on world events from a systems point of view.
It appeared in more than twenty newspapers, won second place in the 1985 Champion-Tuck national competition for outstanding journalism in the fields of business and economics, received the Walter C. Paine Science Education Award in 1990, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1991.
www.sustainabilityinstitute.org /meadows   (165 words)

  
 The Brightest Star in the Sky: A Tribute to Donella H. Meadows
Donella H. Meadows, known as "Dana" to her friends, died on February 21 of this year at the age of 59.
She embodied it in her willingness to take a hard, scientific look at the facts, and to seek understanding of both the trends shaping the world, and the systems that drive those trends.
Dana Meadows, who always preferred to call herself simply "a farmer and a writer," who loved tending her garden as much as she loved designing scientific projects or writing newspaper columns, has left us too early.
www.commondreams.org /views01/0228-04.htm   (3369 words)

  
 ENVIRONMENTALIST DONELLA MEADOWS DIES :: The Memphis Flyer :: the mid-south's news weekly :: News Feature :: Features
Meadows was born March 13, 1941 in Elgin, Illinois, and trained as a scientist, earning a B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College in 1963 and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University in 1968.
Meadows also received the Walter C. Paine Science Education Award in 1990 and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1991.
In 1991 Meadows was selected as one of ten Pew Scholars in Conservation and the Environment.
www.memphisflyer.com /memphis/Content?oid=oid:6758   (620 words)

  
 100 People: A World Portrait   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The article was written by Dartmouth professor, Donella Meadows, in her weekly column entitled "The Global Citizen".
Reaching out on a grassroots level to local readers, Donella Meadows presented a very accessible framework for understanding the world as a fabric of physical, economic, or social relationships that determine world development.
Over the 15 years since Donella Meadows had published the "State of the Village Report," the statistics have appeared on countless websites and, like a folksong, have taken on various incarnations.
www.100people.org /onehundred_history.php   (1214 words)

  
 Remembering Donella Meadows
Donella H. Meadows, 59, a pioneering environmental scientist and writer, died Tuesday in New Hampshire after a brief illness.
In 1981, together with her former husband Dennis Meadows, Donella Meadows founded the International Network of Resource Information Centers (INRIC), also called the Balaton Group (after the lake in Hungary where the group meets annually).
As the Balaton Group's coordinator for eighteen years, she facilitated what grew to become an unusually effective global process of information sharing and collaboration among hundreds of leading academics, researchers, and activists in the broader sustainability movement.
www.newdream.org /about/meadowsobit.php   (629 words)

  
 Limits to Growth: 30 Year Review
And, more devastating, Donella Meadows, our senior author, died unexpectedly of illness in 2001.
The most inspiring parts of the book are hers, and we have recognized her contributions by leaving her as senior author on this third edition.
Donella Meadows, who died unexpectedly in 2001, was a systems analyst and adjunct professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College and wrote the nationally syndicated newspaper column “The Global Citizen.”
www.mnforsustain.org /pop_limits_to_growth_30_year_review_meadows.htm   (2425 words)

  
 David Taub   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 1972 Donella Meadows was on the team at MIT that produced the global computer model "World3" for the Club of Rome.
Donella Meadows served on the Board of Directors of the Hunger Project, the Winrock International Livestock Research Center, the Trust for New Hampshire Lands, and the Upper Valley Land Trust and the Center for a New American Dream, the latter two of which she helped found.
Also in 1991 Donella Meadows collaborated with her previous co-authors Dennis Meadows and Jnilrgen Randers on a twenty-year update to Limits to Growth, called Beyond the Limits (Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1992), which has been translated, at last count, into fifteen languages.
www.peacecity1.com /goodtimes/david1.htm   (4376 words)

  
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