Dancing With Systems

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...

Love the reference to “Libertarians’ Wrongest Argument.” There's lots of competition for that honor. #LimitstoGrowth #DonellaMeadows #RomeStatute

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

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.

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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"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

"Growth" is one of the stupidest purposes ever invented by any culture. We've got to have an "enough." Always ask: growth of what, and why, and for whom, and who pays the cost, and how long can it last, and what's the cost to the planet, and how much is enough? Donella Meadows Environmental scientist, educator and writer (1941- 2001)

We can all learn from this amazing woman.

#Growth #Enough #DonellaMeadows

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 … 🧵

“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

"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.

#DonellaMeadows #Systems #Relationships

Dancing With Systems - The Donella Meadows Project This Project works to preserve Donella (Dana) H. Meadows’s legacy as an inspiring leader, scholar, writer, and teacher. We aim to maintain an easily accessible archive of Dana’s work online.

“We can’t control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!”

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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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"There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair."

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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

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...

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

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...