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How do we change the structure of systems to produce more of what we want and less of that which is undesirable? After years of working with corporations on their systems problems, MIT’s Jay Forrester likes to say that the average manager can define the current problem very cogently, identify the system structure that leads to
the problem, and guess...
In 2008, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in the UK announced a final call to find the slender-billed curlew, a one-time resident of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, last seen in 1999. Meanwhile, scientists in Australia pronounced the white lemuroid possum extinct; a native of mountain forests in Queensland, the possum was the first mammalian extinction blamed...
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In the Sudan, decades of war and unrest, intensified by the most recent conflict in Darfur, have created the world's largest population of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Homes for Sudan, a new...
It used to be that the only exports of the Mamak Landfill in Ankara, Turkey were the powerful stench of rotting garbage and the foul liquid runoff that seeped into underground waters. But today, the...
"My aim is to create a multi-million-person community of supporters that can respond to any conservation emergency anywhere swiftly and efficiently. I call this online community a virtual endowment, a...
Women in the small village of Tacarigua de la laguna in Venezuela are turning to recycling to earn a living. Tacarigua is a long coastal lagoon covering 9,200 hectares along Venezuela's Caribbean...
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In 1992, the year of the first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the Union of Concerned Scientists warned that a “great change in our stewardship of the...
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