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Thinking in Systems

A Primer

By: Donella H. Meadows

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Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. This essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was.

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1603580557

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Thinking in Systems

International Bestseller

By: Donella Meadows

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Thinking in Systems

International Bestseller

By: Donella Meadows

The classic book on systems thinking—with more than half a million copies sold worldwide! "This is a fabulous book... This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing."—Forbes "Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind."—Hunter Lovins In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet—Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner. In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603581480

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Limits to Growth

The 30-Year Update

By: Donella Meadows,Jorgen Randers,Dennis Meadows

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Limits to Growth

The 30-Year Update

By: Donella Meadows,Jorgen Randers,Dennis Meadows

A pioneering work of science."—Business Insider "[This book] helped launch modern environmental computer modeling and began our current globally focused environmental debate . . . . a scientifically rigorous and credible warning."—The Nation In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and expand their original findings in The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update. Meadows, Randers, and Meadows are international environmental leaders recognized for their groundbreaking research into early signs of wear on the planet. Citing climate change as the most tangible example of our current overshoot, the scientists now provide us with an updated scenario and a plan to reduce our needs to meet the carrying capacity of the planet. Over the past three decades, population growth and global warming have forged on with a striking semblance to the scenarios laid out by the World3 computer model in the original Limits to Growth. While Meadows, Randers, and Meadows do not make a practice of predicting future environmental degradation, they offer an analysis of present and future trends in resource use, and assess a variety of possible outcomes. In many ways, the message contained in Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a warning. Overshoot cannot be sustained without collapse. But, as the authors are careful to point out, there is reason to believe that humanity can still reverse some of its damage to Earth if it takes appropriate measures to reduce inefficiency and waste. Written in refreshingly accessible prose, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a long anticipated revival of some of the original voices in the growing chorus of sustainability. Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update is a work of stunning intelligence that will expose for humanity the hazy but critical line between human growth and human development.

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603581553

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Decent People

A Novel

By: Donella Dunlop

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Decent People

A Novel

By: Donella Dunlop

The scene is an Ottawa Valley village. The tale flashes between the hungry thirties, the Second World War, and the tentative fifties and early sixties. In "Decent People" the Protestants hate the Catholics and the Catholics hate the Protestants and almost everyone hates the Algonkins and, of course, everyone detests the soldiers from Petawawa. Yes, this situation existed. Exists in some cases? Still? Anna Dunkeld appeared in the Valley on the hottest day in Canadian history, hatched in a nest of decent people. But can this stubborn, open hearted, strangley rapt child, who lives in a world of stories with herself as hero and the rest of the village as cast of characters, survive the discovery that not everyone is good, not everyone in her beloved village, in her beloved Valley, even in her own family is decent? Even the most wonderful story of all, her Catholic religion, falls from grace. Since everyone knows that endings are scarcely ever happy, this story ends with a happy beginning. Yes, they exist. Still.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426946619

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9781426946615

The Long Beach Peninsula

Where the Columbia Meets the Pacific

By: Donella J. Lucero,Nancy L. Hobbs

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The Long Beach Peninsula

Where the Columbia Meets the Pacific

By: Donella J. Lucero,Nancy L. Hobbs

Serving as the link between Pacific waters and Willapa Bay on the southwestern tip of Washington state, the Long Beach Peninsula has carved its niche as protector and provider since the Chinook tribe first set foot on its shores. Though teeming with life in and around the ocean, its treachery has proven as striking as its beauty. From Lewis and Clark to the many species of birds that flock here yearly, this coastal region hosts a wide range of visitors and has become a thriving center for tourism as well as a haven for those who love the sea.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738524573

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Eyo, the People

By: Donella Dunlop

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Eyo, the People

By: Donella Dunlop

Young Noha, favourite of the Fox Spirit, third son of the leader of the Eyo, has a dream. Siberia is emptying of great reindeer herds. It is the time of low water, new land revealed where once there was an Endless Lake, ice corridors opening between the northern sea and the grasslands far to the south, land known only to the Sprit. Noha would follow the disappearing reindeer and mammoths to the east. Will his people, the Eyo, children of the Giant Reindeer, listen and follow him? Che, too, has a dream. She would follow Noha as his mate. But not as a mindless beast of burden, mother of cubs, warmer of the sleeping place, and obedient child. She would be as a hunter, free to kill for meat, explore the unknown lands, challenge the beasts of the Endless Lake, and give the desires of her artist's heart fruition. They explore the shores of the Endless Lake, meet seal and walrus and narwhal, thrill at the multitude of birds on the cliffs, discover and conquer the southward-leading Granfather of all Rivers. Explore the Nahanni Valley where giants tear the very heads from the shoulders of the bravest hunters. Challenge the Rocky Mountains. Discover the beautiful Bow Valley; the limitless grasslands, the swarming herds of buffalo. Will they find the Valley of the Dream far, far, far to the east? Will they find the Adawa River, pathway to the north where ice has fled. Will they find that haven on the Precambrian Shield in which the Eyo will establish a presence to last ten thousand years? Will Noha realize his dream? Will Che be finally free to be?

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1466979739

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Beyond the Limits

Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future

By: Donella H. Meadows,Dennis L. Meadows,Jørgen Randers

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Beyond the Limits

Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future

By: Donella H. Meadows,Dennis L. Meadows,Jørgen Randers

The bold sequel to The Limits to Growth, which sold nine million copies in 29 languages and became an international bestseller. With 20 years' worth of new data, the authors starkly illustrate the state of the world as it is today--with exponentially growing population, non-renewable resource use, industrial output, food production, and pollution.

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Post Mills, Vt. : Chelsea Green Publishing Company

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0930031555

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9780930031558

Limits to Growth

The 30-Year Update

By: Donella Meadows,Jorgen Randers,Dennis Meadows

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The 30-Year Update

By: Donella Meadows,Jorgen Randers,Dennis Meadows

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Thinking in Systems

Thinking in Systems

Thinking in Systems

Thinking in Systems

Limits to Growth

Limits to Growth

Decent People

Decent People

The Long Beach Peninsula

The Long Beach Peninsula

Eyo, the People

Eyo, the People

Beyond the Limits

Beyond the Limits

Limits to Growth

Limits to Growth

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