A recent article by the New York Times, Sept 18, 2024, attempted to put a price tag on the hidden costs of food production in the US. ...

"The highest leverage of all is to keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, to realize that NO paradigm is "true," that even...

“Thomas Kuhn, who wrote the seminal book about the great paradigm shifts of science, has a lot to say about that. In a nutshell, you keep...

“I said a while back that changing the players in a system is a low-level intervention, as long as the players fit into the same old...

3. The power of self-organization. “The most stunning thing living systems can do is to change themselves utterly by creating whole new...

Places to Intervene in the System 4. The rules of the system (incentives, punishments, constraints). “The rules of the system define its...

‘In the field of quantum physics, there’s a strange scientific phenomenon where the act of observing an electron can change how it...

Point 6 Driving a Positive Feedback Loop   As discussed before Feedback loops works can be a positive or negative.  A positive feedback...

Now we are beginning to move from the physical part of the system (Materials Stock and Flow in terms of Atmospheric CO2 concentration in...

Now let us look at the Carbon Emissions Material Flows. The only way to fix a system that is laid out wrong in the first place is to...

Numbers are last on Meadow’s list of leverage points. Diddling with details, arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic . Probably...