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Systems Design and Thinking

GMO: THE WRONG DEBATE. HOW TO CHANGE OUR ECONOMIC MODEL

Article on Genetically Modified Organisms and Coffee Farming

In Italian and English in April 2008

OGM: un dibattito sbagliato

Domus article in English and Italian

In a long-distance conversation, global designers, manufacturers and experts discuss strategies, visions and hopes for sustainable development in March 2008

Let's Face it, what has prosperity done for me?

Article from Italian Design magazine in English and Italian

New manufacturing opportunities and eco-friendly business patterns in special green edition 2008

Domus Article on Designing Systems

The Power of Systems Design

A doctoral lecture presented by Gunter Pauli

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piH8lIZDwLQ

Wisdom for the Future

Gunter Pauli lecture to University of Torino, Italy

http://www.systemsdesign.polito.it/lessons.htm

Gaviotas - Eco-mimicry

Growing a Forest in Eastern Colombia

The shift that Gaviotas demonstrates is that it is impossible to solve one problem with one solution. Gaviotas moved from a one problem - one solution approach, to a system approach where all problems are tackled at once.

The Paradigm Shifted: The Renaissance of the Rainforest

ZERI Board Member visits Gaviotas October, 2006

The visit to Colombia offered an opportunity to verify first hand a project that was initially presented to an international platform of scholars on the occasion of the Club of Rome meeting held in Bogotá in February 1984.

Report on Visit to Las Gaviotas and Marandua

Zero Waste

Zero Waste Communities Strategy

Strategy on how to create a Zero Waste Community, prepared by the Zero Waste Task Force of Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Benito Counties in California, USA.