Donella Meadows Revisited - Future Observatory Journal

Systemic challenges — The loops and patters that the interaction of these transition factors point you to are the systemic challenges. These are the places where the system is deeply “stuck”. They are deep-rooted, persistent and interconnected. They are critical for capital holders to address in order to support system transformation. And critical

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Sir Patrick Geddes emphasized the need for transdisciplinary education as a facilitator of cultural change. He advocated ecologically and socially appropriate practices, and stressed the need for an integration of human settlements and livelihoods into the natural conditions of their particular region. According to Geddes, appropriate local action ... See more

Despite progress in research on the rural-reconstruction movements, we are still missing some important questions related to their connective methodology. How was the self to articulate with the local, national and the global? How was the self to manage the inevitable tensions in the pull of these scales, but especially the tensions between the loc

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I discovered that there were people the world over asking questions, large and small, about how things could be otherwise in schools, in neighbourhoods, in our relationship to nature, in our approach to health care, in how we spend our time and attention, even using it as the basis for reimagining the economic and democratic realities of their citi

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