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Paula Antao recently asked where she might attend a "System Dynamics Short Course applied to Environmental Management." We at Sustainability Institute (www.sustainabilityinstitute.org) recently ran such a course for a group of University professors and environmental managers. In the future...

Sue Tullar asked about experiential games to introduce systems thinking. When we dont have much time, we use a game that Linda Booth Sweeney and Dennis Meadows call "Warped Juggle." It is in their Systems Thinking Playbook, Vol 1. Takes about 15-30 minutes with debrief. Short version: Eigh...

Dear Colleagues: Next month, Sustainability Institute is offering a low-cost two-day workshop in Burlington, Vermont introducing participants to the application of systems thinking tools to the challenge of ecological and economic sustainability. The workshop is introductory and thus not directed to...

Dear System Dynamicists: Has anyone gathered time-series data (ideally in spreadsheet form) that illustrates the behavior over time associated with the "Bass" diffusion model and/or epidemic models? This would likely be a bell-shaped curve of product sales rate or disease infection rate, o...