[S-C] Fwd: Donella Meadows Archive now online

[Kevin Shrieve]

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 12:37:41 -0400
From: sustainability.inst@sustainer.org
Subject: [SI Update] Donella Meadows Archive launched

Press Release - May 25, 2004

Donella Meadows Archive Goes Public On-Line
http://www.sustainer.org/dhm_archive/search.php

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.

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.

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.
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.

To visit the Donella Meadows Archive, go to:
http://www.sustainer.org/dhm_archive/search.php


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.

Contact
Diana Wright, DWright@sustainer.org
Sustainability Institute
3 Linden Road
Hartland, VT 05048
(802) 436-1277