“Look, they only gave us cake crumb, we won’t give anything to the other countries!” -a student, just before the negotiation starts Our friend Laurent Richard, a mathematics teacher at the ...
Beth Sawin at UMass Lowell: Climate Change Solutions for the Future We Need
Creating workable solutions to climate change isn’t easy, but human beings have a history of overcoming obstacles in difficult times (as we've said before, ending the slave trade was once similarly ...
John Sterman and the Dalai Lama: Investigating Growth with a Piece of Paper
Here’s a fun game you can play to get acquainted with systems thinking: Take a sheet of paper and fold it in half. Now fold it in half again. Keep going until you’ve folded it six times. At this ...