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“Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System,” is a famous essay by the late, great, Donella Meadows.

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September 28, 2026 at 9:35 PM
“Growth is one of the stupidest purposes ever invented by any #culture … we’ve got to have an ‘enough’.” - #DonellaMeadows, as quoted by #DanielSusskind in #Growth: A History and A Reckoning
March 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Une citation qui invite à la réflexion : la technologie ne peut pas remplacer le sens critique, l’action collective et la responsabilité individuelle face aux enjeux environnementaux, sociaux et numériques.

#Technologie #Responsabilité #Environnement #Numérique #TheLimitsToGrowth #DonellaMeadows
March 15, 2026 at 8:08 PM
From our recommended reading list: "Thinking in Systems"

This introductory book by Donella Meadows offers insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global.

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December 1, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Systems thinking isn’t about control, it’s about listening, learning, and dancing with complexity. Watch the system, honour feedback, expand horizons, embrace uncertainty, and act for the good of the whole. #SystemsThinking #DonellaMeadows #Complexity donellameadows.org/dancing-with...
Dancing With Systems
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March 24, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Definitive #Buchempfehlung: #Buch erklärt sehr schön, welche Auswirkungen #Strukturen in #Systemen auf #Verhalten haben,welche Bedeutung unterschiedliche #Feedback-Loops u. vorhandene u. nicht vorhandene Informationen für #Systeme haben. www.linkedin.com/pulse/buchem... via @LinkedIn
Buchempfehlung:
Definitive #Buchempfehlung! Thinking in Systems von Donella H. Meadows https://donellameadows.
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August 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
1 week of 'blue-skying?' and +350 followers. Thankyou.
As its happy Friday here is a link to my new publication with Vania Ceccato (not on here yet). Its also #openaccess #crimeprevention #sustainability #systemsthinking #donellameadows www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
Systems Thinking for Sustainable Crime Prevention | Planning for Risky
This book offers a comprehensive overview of areas with elevated levels of crime, which we consider ‘risky places.’ These can be facilities, nodes, or paths and
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November 22, 2024 at 1:05 PM
2 “ #Paradigms are the sources of #systems. From them, from shared #social agreements about the nature of reality, come system goals and #information flows, feedbacks, stocks, flows and everything else about systems.” - #DonellaMeadows, as quoted by #DeniseHearn & #VassBednar … 🧵
April 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"You think because you understand 'one' that you must therefore understand 'two' because one and one make two. But you forgot that you must also understand 'and'."

All day long, under my breath, I repeat this Donella Meadows quote as a mantra.

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February 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Love the reference to “Libertarians’ Wrongest Argument.” There's lots of competition for that honor. #LimitstoGrowth #DonellaMeadows #RomeStatute
March 19, 2026 at 7:44 PM
"The #language and #information #systems of an #organization are not an #objective means of describing #reality - they fundamentally structure and the perceptions and actions of its members." - Fred Kofman, as quoted by #DonellaMeadows in #ThinkinginSystems: A Primer
June 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
We can all learn from this amazing woman.

#growth #enough #donellameadows
June 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Just finished writing about Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows 📚✨
A technical read, but it’s changed the way I see fashion, not just as clothes, but as a living system of production, culture, and waste. Read more on the blog

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Wilde Hippi Book Club, Thinking in Systems and Fashion Sustainability
Discover how Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows offers tools to rethink fashion sustainability, from feedback loops to creative interventions.
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August 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
"There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair."

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November 28, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Thinking in Systems by #DonellaMeadows, one of the #books mentioned here, is an excellent and important read. In an ideal world, it would be taught as part of a course in #systemsthinking in secondary education systems. fivebooks.com/best-books/l...
Five Books: The Best Books for Long-Term Thinking, recommended by Roman Krznaric
The best books to help you avoid short-termism and promote long-term thinking, recommended by cultural thinker Roman Krznaric, author of The Good Ancestor
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May 27, 2024 at 1:16 PM