Elizabeth Sawin, Co-Director of Climate Interactive recently delivered a keynote speech at the Heroes & Leaders celebration of mentors, focusing on what she learned about mentoring from her mentor Donella (Dana) Meadows. Meadows was the founder of the Sustainability Institute (now the Donella Meadows Institute) and a co-founder of Cobb Hill Co-housing. Elizabeth worked with […]
We Should Connect Adaptation and Mitigation in New York City and Around the World
When addressing climate change, we should look for every opportunity to implement solutions that help communities adapt to unavoidable climate change while simultaneously building their capacity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, all too often, adaptation and mitigation of climate change are viewed as competing or even mutually exclusive priorities. Reactions to New York Mayor […]
Top Ten Ways Climate Interactive and C-ROADS Delivered Results in Copenhagen
The Climate Interactive team, led by Sustainability Institute, delivered big results in Copenhagen at the UNFCCC’s COP15 climate conference. Bill McKibben wrote in the UK Guardian, from Copenhagen: “the only people who really understand what’s going on may be a small crew … called Climate Interactive. Their software speaks numbers, not spin – and in […]
World’s Countries Ratify Global Climate Deal! in a Dartmouth simulation at least…
Professor David Peart and Dr. Lori Siegel led a powerful learning experience for Dartmouth College students using the C-ROADS simulator as part of the Copenhagen Climate Exercise (now World Climate) The College created an engaging video on the experience — check it out above. And their press release is here. Sustainability issues and our team’s […]
Carrying Our Trash and Simulating Our Climate
Why does our team focus on using simulations to spark action on climate change? We are struck by the power of interactive simulations to help us see the long term, system-wide implications of our actions in ways that create new possibilities. And I first experienced that power as a student at Dartmouth College in the […]
Donella Meadows Leadership Fellowship Accepting Applications
We are now accepting applications for the 2009-2010 Donella Meadows Leadership Fellowship here at Sustainability Institute. The program honors and builds on the legacy of our organization’s founder and my mentor, Dana Meadows (pictured to the left on her New Hampshire farm). As a trainer and coach in the last three cohorts of the program, I can say that the Fellowship […]
Dana Meadows, Beth Sawin and 3.5% Emissions Growth
Climate Sim force of nature Beth Sawin (in the picture to the left) recently wrote a really lovely blog post about our team’s effort to address climate change and global ecological limits through the use of simulations that are embedded in effective conversations about action. She thinks that our mentor and Sustainability Institute founder Dana Meadows […]