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    Cobb Hill Co-Housing — Sutainability Institute’s neighbor and an intentional community of people who want to explore the challenge of living in ways that are materially sufficient, socially and ecologically responsible, and satisfying to the soul.

    Miniature Earth film on YouTube — An updated film version of Dana’s 1990, “State of the Village Report.”

    AtKisson Inc. — provides consulting, training, and information services to leaders in sustainable development.

    Center for the New American Dream — dedicated to helping individuals and institutions reduce and shift consumption to enhance quality of life and protect the environment. More Fun, Less Stuff!!

    Environmental Leadership Collaborative (ELC) — a network of organizations working to expand the capacity of the environmental movement by providing fellowships, internships, leadership seminars, activist development programs, and skills training to strengthen and support the work of environmental professionals, activists, students, volunteers, and organizations.

    Food and Society Policy Fellows —a public policy education team with an overall goal of shaping U.S. public policy to encourage the creation and expansion of health promoting, environmentally sound, and locally driven and owned food systems.

    Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) — promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.

    Institute for Sustainable Communities — works with communities in existing and emerging democracies, providing training, advice, and grants for sustainable development.

    International Sustainability Indicators Network (ISIN) — is a member-driven organization that provides people working on sustainability indicators with a method of communicating with and learning from each other.

    Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) International — a global network of individuals and non-governmental organizations, committed to sustainable development. Based in London, LEAD works on capacity development and issue-oriented action projects.

    Northern Forest Center — works to build a healthy and productive future for the Northern Forest and its people by strengthening citizen leadership and regional collaboration.

    Schweisfurth Foundation — a Munich-based foundation to sustainable development.

    Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) — an intentional learning community of organizations and individuals around the world who are working to discover, integrate and implement theories and practices for the interdependent development of people and their institutions.

    Yellow Wood Associates— a consulting firm located in St. Albans, Vermont specializing in rural community economic development since 1985.

    Becoming a Measurement Guide training program. You Get What You Measure® is a powerful, values-based, planning and evaluation tool for community development and natural resource professionals who are skilled facilitators and who are seeking to build the capacity of their organizations or communities to make real and measurable progress towards their goals. See www.yellowwood.org/BMG.htm for more info or call 802-524-6141.





  1. Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program

    The mission of SI’s Fellowship Program is to accelerate the shift to global sustainability by increasing the effectiveness of well-positioned sustainability leaders.  Fellows learn to address social, economic and environmental issues at their root causes while benefiting from a national and international network of talented and supportive colleagues. More (+)

  2. CLIMATE INTERACTIVE

    Climate Interactive, a program of Sustainability Institute, is a collaboration of business people, academics, not-for-profits, and scientists committed to using innovative approaches to address climate change. The mission of this program is to develop, extend, and distribute powerful, open-innovation climate simulations for the world to share.More (+)

  3. THINKING IN SYSTEMS – THE BOOK

    thinking-in-systems-the-book"In Dana Meadows's brilliantly integrative worldview, everything causes everything else; cause and effect loop back on themselves. She was the clearest thinker and writer co-creating the art and science of systems dynamics, and Thinking in Systems distills her lifetime of wisdom. This clear, fun-to-read synthesis will help diverse readers everywhere to grasp and harness how our complex world really works." —Amory B. Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute More about the book (+)

  4. The Voice of a Global Citizen – The Archive

    “Systems thinking can lead us to the edge of what analysis can do and then point beyond - to what can and must be done by the human spirit.”    -Donella (Dana) Meadows More Archives (+)