Tag: DonellaMeadows

Preaching to the unconverted

Cognitive dissonance is when we know something to be true but we don’t act as if it is true. In the built environment sector, the cognitive dissonance is…

No more fish in the sea

Somehow the topics of my posts have returned to the subject of the sea. It is apparently a rich subject to trawl.  Sorry, I couldn’t resist the pun,…

Plenty more fish in the sea

Yesterday’s post on the fish écluses on the Île de Ré speaks to the idea of creating straightforward connections between the resources that humans need to live and…

Stone circles on the beach

Hundreds of years ago, the inhabitants of the Île de Ré, just off France’s Atlantic coast, developed an ingenious way to catch fish. At low tide, they built…

Five books for getting into regenerative thinking

This post has moved. It now lives on the Constructivist website: read the updated version → Eiffel Over is now my stage for engineering-related clowning, singing, dancing and…