I recently read the following quotation, “the problem with history is that it repeats itself.” Although I cannot recall who said it, the point is that we need to learn from the past, not just repeat it. In a recent discussion with a co-worker, I started to think about the ebb and flow of environmental [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Systems Thinking’
The Third (and Final?) Environmental Movement
April 17th, 2011 
Eric Wilson First Thoughts on Natural Capitalism
June 14th, 2010 Eric Wilson Usually I skip the preface and acknowledgments in a book. With the decade old Natural Capitalism from Paul Hawken (author of The Ecology of Commerce), Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins, co-founders of Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado, I felt it was going to provide valuable background and history. In reading these sections I was struck [...]
Five Friday Quotations
May 21st, 2010 Eric Wilson On occasion Five Friday Facts becomes something else. Today we present Five Friday Quotations for your contemplation. “Nothing in nature is exhausted in it’s first use. When a thing has served an end to the uttermost, it is wholly new for an ulterior service.” Ralph Waldo Emerson as quoted in Natural Capitalism p.17 “Technology has [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger 
Tags: Natural Capitalism, Quotations, Systems Thinking 
No Comments »Book Review: Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems
August 15th, 2009 Eric Wilson Roughly 15 years ago Donella H. Meadows, founder of the Sustainability Institute and professor in the Environmental Studies Program of Dartmouth College, wrote an introduction to systems thinking titled Thinking in Systems: A Primer. Last year the book was edited by Diana Wright of the Sustainability Institute and published (by Chelsea Green Publishing), seven years [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Sustainability Tags: Book Review, Necessary Revolution, Systems Thinking No Comments »U.S. Energy Consumption Dropped in 2008, Renewables Increased
August 8th, 2009 Eric Wilson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, part of the United States’ Department of Energy, announced last month that the total energy consumption in the US decreased during the 2008 calendar year. Measured in quads (representing a quadrillion BTUs – a “British Thermal Unit is a unit of measurement for energy, and is equivalent to about [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy Tags: Biomass, Energy, Energy Conservation, Hydroelectricity, Solar Energy, Systems Thinking No Comments »
