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Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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>Date: 21 Feb 2001 07:32:35 EST
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diana S. Wright)
>Subject: Donella Meadows
>
>Dear Global Citizen subscribers,
>It is with great sadness that I pass on the news that Donella "Dana"
Meadows has died. The loss is felt deeply by all who worked with her and
read her writings.
>
>Following is a text-only version of her obituary. More information and
many of her writings will be posted at the website of her Sustainability
Institute (www.sustainer.org) in the next few weeks.
>
>Questions can be directed to me at 603-646-3375 or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Sincerely,
>-Diana Wright
>research assistant
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>Obituary , 2/20/01 - Donella Meadows
>
>Hartland - Donella Meadows, 59, of Hartland Four Corners, Vermont, died
Tuesday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, New Hampshire,
after a brief illness. She was an Adjunct Professor at Dartmouth College
and Director of the Sustainability Institute with headquarters in Hartland.
>
>Donella Meadows was born March 13, 1941 in Elgin, Illinois, and trained as
a scientist, earning a B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College in 1963 and
a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University in 1968.
>
>Donella Meadows taught at Dartmouth College from 1972 until her death.
She was on the faculty of the interdisciplinary Environmental Studies
Program and the graduate program of the Resource Policy Center. In 1983 she
resigned her tenured professorship to devote more time to international
activities and writing. She retained an Adjunct Professorship at Dartmouth,
teaching environmental journalism and, more recently, environmental ethics.
>
>In 1972 Meadows was on the team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
that produced the global computer model "World3" for the Club of Rome. She
was the principal author of the book The Limits to Growth, which described
that model, and sold millions of copies in 28 languages. In 1991 she
collaborated with her co-authors, Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers, on a
twenty-year update to The Limits to Growth, called Beyond the Limits. She
was also co-author of two technical books, published in 1973 and 1974 by
the MIT Press, Toward Global Equilibrium and The Dynamics of Growth in a
Finite World .
>
>Since then she has been involved in numerous studies of social,
environmental, energy, and agriculture systems. She chronicled the emerging
field of global modeling in her 1981 book Groping in the Dark: the First
Decade of Global Modeling. In 1983 she criticized the state of the art of
social system modeling using nine case studies in The Electronic Oracle:
Computer Models and Social Decisions.
>
>Since 1985, Donella Meadows has written a weekly newspaper column, "The
Global Citizen," self-syndicated in more than 20 papers nationwide. The
column was awarded second place in the 1985 Champion-Tuck national
competition for outstanding journalism in the fields of business and
economics. "The Global Citizen" also received the Walter C. Paine Science
Education Award in 1990 and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1991.
Selected columns were published in 1991 as a book, also called The Global
Citizen .
>
>With Dennis Meadows she founded and coordinated INRIC, the International
Network of Resource Information Centers, also called the Balaton Group.
INRIC is a coalition of systems-oriented analysts and activists in 50
nations, all of whom work to promote sustainable, high-productivity
resource management. Through INRIC, Meadows developed training games and
workshops on resource management, which she presented in Hungary, Kenya,
Costa Rica, Portugal, Singapore, Germany, and the United States. She helped
to organize an annual conference in Hungary at which Balaton Group members
exchange information and plan joint projects.
>
>During 1988-90 Meadows worked with television producers at WGBH-TV in
>Boston to develop the ten-part PBS series "Race to Save the Planet." She
was writing a college textbook, tentatively titled A Sustainable World: an
Introduction to Environmental Systems, to accompany the programs as part of
an Annenberg/CPB telecourse.
>
>Donella Meadows served on the Board of Directors of the Hunger Project,
the Winrock International Livestock Research Center, and the Trust for New
Hampshire Lands. She was a co-founder and served on the Boards of the
Upper Valley Land Trust and the Center for a New American Dream, and had
been a consultant to the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S.
Congress. She was a member of the Committee for Population, Resources, and
the Environment of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
and a member of the Committee for Research and Exploration of the National
Geographic Society.
>
>Meadows had been a visiting scholar at the East-West Center in Honolulu,
the Resource Policy Group in Oslo, Norway, the International Institute of
Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna, and the Environmental Systems
Analysis Group of the University of Kassel in Germany.
>
>In 1991 Donella Meadows was selected as one of ten Pew Scholars in
Conservation and the Environment. Her three-year award supported her
international work in resource management with a systems point of view. In
1994 she was awarded a five-year MacArthur Fellowship by the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
>
>Meadows lived for 27 years on a small, communal, organic farm in
Plainfield, New Hampshire, where she worked at sustainable resource
management directly. In 1999 she moved to Cobb Hill in Hartland Four
Corners, Vermont. There she worked with others to found an eco-village,
maintain an organic farm, and establish headquarters for the Sustainability
Institute. Development of both the co-housing village and the Institute
will continue.
>
>Donella Meadows' mother, Phoebe Quist, has referred to her daughter as an
"earth missionary." Meadows described herself in light-hearted Website
profiles as "an opinionated columnist, perpetual fund-raiser, fanatic
gardener, opera-lover, baker, farmer, teacher and global gadfly."
>
>Donella Meadows is survived by her mother of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, her
father, Don Hager of Palatine, Illinois, a brother, Jason Hager, of
Waterford, Wisconsin, and cousins and nephews.
>
>A memorial service will be announced at a later date. Memorial donations
may be made to The Sustainability Institute or to Cobb Hill Cohousing, both
at P.O. Box 174, Hartland Four Corners, VT 05049.
>
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