Seeing the Forest
Seeing the Forest tells the story of the Siuslaw National Forest in Oregon — how it made a successful transition from timber extraction to ecosystem restoration.
systems thinking
Teaching Economics for the 21st century
We need to transcend our current paradigm in which cognitive, intellectual ways of knowing are privileged at the expense of all others and in which didactic methods continue to dominate.
The Delusion of Control
I’m sure most of my readers have heard at least a little of the hullaballoo surrounding the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si. It’s been entertaining to watch…
The Systems View of Life – A Unifying Vision
Interview with Fritjof Capra author of The Tao of Physics (1975) and co-author of the Systems View of Life – A Unifying Vision (2014).
Are We Doing Our Best To Restore Watersheds? Lessons from a 10-Year Watershed Restoration Strategy
For the past decade, the Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) has explored ways to make community-based watershed restoration more effective.
Is the Local Economy Too Local? Why Co-Ops and Credit Unions Need a Broader Strategy
This is a story about the revolutionaries next door.
Fossil Fuels: Are we on the Edge of the Seneca Cliff?
It is a well known tenet of people working in system dynamics that there exist plenty of cases of solutions worsening the problem.
Genetically Modified Escalation
How much money, effort and time must be wasted in the service of feeding today’s GMO escalation trap? By the time one side wins, society will have lost.
Why Resilience?
While there are many definitions of resilience, it can generally be defined as the capacity for a system to survive, adapt, and flourish in the face of turbulent change and uncertainty.
Biourbanism: Rethinking the Science of Space
Biourbanism considers the city as an organism, but in a different way, because we apply some of the latest developments in the life sciences to architecture.
Economic Direct Democracy: a radical vision for change
Economic Direct Democracy is a radical manifesto for change that is, above all, sensible.
Systems Thinking and Complexity 101
Many of the issues we deal with in our lives involve both complicated and complex systems, and hence have both complicated and complex aspects that need to be teased apart.