#donellameadows — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #donellameadows, aggregated by home.social.
-
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: A fascist paradigm (12 May 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/12/donella-meadows/
-
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 #Réflexion #Responsabilité #Environnement #Numérique #TheLimitsToGrowth #DonellaMeadows
-
A Letter, Anguish, and a Rubber Band
Your anguish, sometimes so unbearable, is in fact the force through which you can help the world come a little closer to being all that it can be.
donellameadows.org/archives/a-…
#reality #vision #future #SystemsChange #learning #ask #DonellaMeadows
-
Die #OECD haben Deutschland 2023 in ihrem Umweltprüfbericht für seine unzulängliche Politik im Verkehrssektor gerügt [1]. Konsequenzen gab es keine, das heißt, bisher wurde nicht einmal das Problem offiziell anerkannt. Im Unterschied dazu haben z.B. Irland und Österreich (unter der alten Regierung) zumindest erkannt, dass die Elektrifizierung von Fahrzeugen allein nicht ausreicht, um die Klimaziele zu erreichen und dass ein grundlegendes Umsteuern im Denken und Handeln erforderlich ist [2].
Im Jahr 2022 entwickelten Stakeholder in Irland zusammen mit einem Team der OECD den Bericht „Redesigning Ireland’s Transport for Net Zero“ [3]. Maßgebliche Aktuerinnen auf Seiten der OECD waren Mariana Mirabile und Aimée Aguilar Jaber, die mit #SystemsThinking einen systemischen Ansatz verfolgen, der u.a. auf #DonellaMeadows zurückgeht [4], einer der Autorinnen der #GrenzenDesWachstums.
Mit dieser Methode haben sie die sich wechselseitig verstärkenden Systemdynamiken der #Autoabhängigkeit, der induzierten Pkw-Nachfrage, der fortschreitenden #Zersiedelung und der mangelnden Attraktivität des öffentlichen Verkehrs ebenso analysiert wie die negativen Auswirkungen dieser Dynamik: #Luftverschmutzung, #Verkehrslärm, #Verkehrstote und -verletzte, ein reduziertes Mobilitätsangebot und ein ungleicher Zugang zu Mobilitätsoptionen [3, S. 39-58].
Auf Basis dieser Analyse haben sie verschiedene Maßnahmen auf ihre Eignung hinsichtlich des Aufbrechens dieser Teufelskreise geprüft. Das Ergebnis: Zu den effektivsten Hebeln gehören die Neuaufteilung des Straßenraums zugunsten des Rad-, Fuß- und öffentlichen Verkehrs, die großflächige Verbreitung von On-Demand-Fahrdiensten sowie nicht zuletzt Kommunikationsanstrengungen, um ausreichenden öffentlichen Druck für einen #Paradigmenwechsel in der Siedlungs- und Verkehrsplanung sowie der Wirtschaftspolitik weg von der #Autozentriertheit aufzubauen [3, S. 58-88].
Das in dem Bericht verwendete Eisbergmodell zeigt, dass die meisten Maßnahmen mit hohem transformativen Potenzial auf systemische Veränderungen abzielen, wie z. B. die Veränderung von Strukturen oder mentalen Modellen, und nicht auf bloße Ereignisse oder Mustern von Ereignissen oder Verhaltensweisen. Maßnahmen auf diesen Ebenen haben tendenziell ein geringes bis mittleres transformatives Potenzial und bekämpfen oft eher die Symptome als die Ursachen.
Basierend auf diesem Bericht wurden in Irland im Climate Action Plan 2023 konkrete Ziele für Verkehrsvermeidung und Verkehrsverlagerung auf den Umweltverbund beschlossen, um die #induzierteNachfrage zu reduzieren und die Autoabhängigkeit zu verringern. Zu den wichtigsten Maßnahmen gehören die Umwidmung des öffentlichen Raumes für nachhaltige und raumeffiziente Mobilitätsformen sowie der Ausgleich zwischen Nutzung durch Verkehr und anderen Nutzungen [2, S. 71-72].
-
We can all learn from this amazing woman.
-
"Living successfully in a world of complex systems means expanding not only time horizons and thought horizons; above all it means expanding the horizons of caring. There are moral reasons for doing that, of course. And if moral arguments are not sufficient, systems thinking provides the practical reasons to back up the moral ones."
#DonellaMeadows, 2004
https://donellameadows.org/dancing-with-systems/
(1/2)
-
"Many Native American cultures actively spoke of and considered in their decisions the effects upon the seventh generation to come. The longer the operant time horizon, the better the chances for survival….We experience now the consequences of actions set in motion yesterday and decades ago and centuries ago."
#DonellaMeadows, 2004
https://donellameadows.org/dancing-with-systems/
True story. I've heard of iwi organisations in Aotearoa having hui to develop 7 generation plans.
-
"Carter was also trying to deal with a flood of illegal immigrants from Mexico. He suggested that nothing could be done about that immigration as long as there was a great gap in opportunity and living standards between the U.S. and Mexico. Rather than spending money on border guards and barriers, he said, we should spend money helping to build the Mexican economy, and we should continue to do so until the immigration stopped."
#DonellaMeadows,2004
-
"The world’s leaders are correctly fixated on economic growth as the answer to virtually all problems, but they’re pushing with all their might in the wrong direction."
https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system
(3/3)
-
"Not only population growth, but economic growth. Growth has costs as well as benefits, and we typically don’t count the costs — among which are poverty and hunger, environmental destruction, etc. — the whole list of problems we are trying to solve with growth! What is needed is much slower growth, much different kinds of growth, and in some cases no growth or negative growth."
https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system
(2/3)
-
"Asked by the Club of Rome to show how major global problems — poverty and hunger, environmental destruction, resource depletion, urban deterioration, unemployment — are related and how they might be solved,
[Jay] Forrester made a computer model and came out with a clear leverage point: Growth."
https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system
(1/3)
#SystemsAnalysis #JayForrester #ClubOfRome #growth #DeGrowth
-
"There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair."
-
Not too bad an article on #degrowth in the #MorningStar.
It's the first of 2. Let's see what the second one says when published.
However I'm not sure about the allegation that Club of Rome sought to "prove" a position on #LimitsToGrowth. Seems unlikely that #DonellaMeadows would have accepted such a restricted commission.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/what-degrowth-and-what-are-arguments-it -
It hadn’t occurred to me that public #SystemsThinking triggers #reactionaries, but now it makes complete sense.
#DonellaMeadows was on to something and they know it.
-
Deep system change is the only way to address deep problems that are caused by bad system design. Permaculture design addresses things at a systems level, whether in your backyard or at a regional scale. It's liberating to have the tools to design better systems! #permaculture #climatesolutions #systemsthinking #donellameadows
-
“A single persuasive leader working directly on #goals and #values can shift the functioning of a massive system. So can a leader who opens up or closes down, speeds up or slows down, distorts or clarifies information flows.”
— #DonellaMeadows #facilitation #complexity #systems #ethics @ethics -
“A system must consist of three kinds of things: elements, interconnections, and a
function or purpose.”
— #DonellaMeadows #quotes #facilitation #complexity #systems #ethics @ethics -
Clearly, it's #DonellaMeadows day! "Someone has got to start saying some different and more truthful things about how the planet operates. Who will do it, if not us?"
"Moments of truth are fleeting. They are of value only if we seize them as opportunities to make commitments that we will abide by, even when we have lost sight of the truth." #systems #ecology https://donellameadows.org/archives/a-reaction-from-a-multitude/
-
What an excellent and relatable explanation of key features of systems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_BtS008J0k&t=549s&ab_channel=DonellaMeadows
#SystemThinking #DonellaMeadows -
Leverage points to intervene in a system
2. Mindset or paradigm that the system — its goals, structure, rules, delays, parameters — arises from
Paradigms might be changed by pointing out anomalies/failures in the current paradigm to open minds. -
Leverage points to intervene in a system
3. Goal of the system
Changing goals changes every item listed above: parameters, feedback loops, information and self-organization. -
Leverage points to intervene in a system
4. Power to add, change, evolve, or self-organize system structure
Ability to change by creating new structures, adding new negative & positive feedback loops, promoting information flows, making rules. -
Responses so far to my request for works that aren't stuck in fear, gloom and doom narratives related to #sustainability #climate #environment
Please addMovements
#TakeTheJump
#SolarPunk
#permaculture
#AIArtNon-Fiction
#SusanneMoser
#GlennAlbrecht
#ElinKelsey
#DonellaMeadows
#AlastairMcIntosh
@annaleen
#SuzanneSimard
#RobinWallKimmerer
#MerlinSheldrakeFiction and #clifi
@octaviacade
#KimStanleyRobinson
#ErnestCallenbach
#OctaviaButler
#RichardPowers
#CharlotteMcConaghy -
Twelve leverage points - Wikipedia https://b.mamund.com/3fUZK6y
Leverage points to intervene in a system from most effective to least
-
Leverage points to intervene in a system
5. Rules of the system (such as incentives, punishment, constraints)
Pay attention to rules, and to who makes them. -
Leverage points to intervene in a system
6. Structure of information flow (who does and does not have access to what kinds of information)
It is cheaper and easier to change information flows than it is to change structure. -
Leverage points to intervene in a system
7. Gain around driving positive feedback loops
A positive feedback loop speeds up a process. In most cases, it is preferable to slow down a positive loop, rather than speeding up a negative one. -
Leverage points to intervene in a system
8. Strength of negative feedback loops, relative to the effect they are trying to correct against
A negative feedback loop slows down a process, tending to promote stability.