Introduction
Ag Systems Intro
More Intro to Ag Systems
A Review
Working with Mental Models
Mental Models Intro ppt
Mental Models Reading
Working with “the Iceberg”
Finding Root Causes
Ladder of Inference
How to find “structure”
Useful Mental Models
Changing Minds (or not)
Useful Mental Models
Reframing
Don’t Think of an Elephant
Understanding Reframing
Using the “Upside Down Iceberg”
Power Point on Reframing Local Food
Lessons from Cognitive Science
Frames and Brains: going deeper
Causal Loop Diagrams
Getting Started with CLD PowerPoint
Systems Thinking and Causal Loops
Fixes that Fail
From Causal Loops to System Dynamics
Intro to Causal Loops and System Dynamics
System Dynamics Model for Flowers (created by kids)
Causal Loops and Sustainability
The Commodity Systems Challenge
Industrial Agriculture: a slowly moving disaster
Mapping the Food System
Perspective
The Tipping Point
Stories within Stories
Systems Thinking Quotes
More Systems Tools
The Iceberg
Personal Holistic Goal
Five Disciplines
Ladder of Inference
An example of the Ladder of Inference
Mental Models
Three Dimensions of the Great Turning
Five Whys
Moments of Awareness
Personal Mastery
Shared Vision
The Law of Unintended Consequences
Dancing with Systems
Networks
Interaction Institute for Social Change Resources
The Systems Thinker
The Next System Blog (Living Systems)
Karl North and Eco-intelligence
John Gerber’s Ag Systems Blogs
Ecological Tipping Point Lessons
Racial Justice and the Food System
A Gift Economy
Introduction to the gift economy
Two Economies – Wendall Berry
The Gift Economy and Schumacher College
Buddhist Economics – E.F. Schumacher
Gift Economy Story
Some Readings
- Saving the World One Clothespin at a Time by John Gerber
- Why Systems Thinking by Karl North
- A New Understanding of Root Cause -Systems Thinking – Karl North
- Nourishing Upward Spirals – Paul Krafel
- Spirals of Change – Paul Krafel
- Food Systems Change – New Rules or Market Populism? by Karl North
- Systems Mapping the Food System – Curtis Ogden
- Commodity System Challenges – a Systems Dynamics Understanding
- Three Stories of Our Time – Joanna Macy
- Why Call it Progress? – Pope Francis
and…
References
Principle References Used to Develop the Course:
- Capra, F. 1996. The Web of Life. Anchor Press.
- Krafel, P. 1999. Seeing Nature: Deliberate Encounters with the Visible World. Chelsea Green Publishing Company, Vermont.
- Meadows, D.H. 2008. Thinking in Systems. Chelsea Green Press
- Senge, P. et al. 1994. The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization. Doubleday Publishing Group.
- Wilson, K. and G.E.B Morren Jr. 1990. Systems Approaches for Improvement in Agricultural and Resource Management. MacMillan Pub. Co.
Additional References Used to Develop the Course:
- Alexander, C., Ishikawa, S., and M. Silverstein. 1977. A Pattern Language. Oxford University Press.
- Anderson, V. and L. Johnson. 1997. Systems Thinking Basics: From Concepts to Causal Loops. Pegasus Communications.
- Bateson, G. 1972. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Chandler Publishing.
- Bohm, D. and D. Peat. 1987. Science, Order, and Creativity. Bantam Books
- Capra, F. 1984. The Turning Point: Science, Society and the Rising Culture. Bantam. Press.
- Carroll, C.R., Vandermeer, J.H., and P. M. Rossett. 1990. Agroecology. McGraw-Hill Press.
- Edwards, C.A., Lal, R., Madden, P., Miller, R.H., and G. House. 1990. Sustainable Agriculture Systems. Soil and Water Conservation Society Press.
- Few, A.A. 1996. System Behavior and System Modeling. University Science Books.Holmgren, D. 2009. Future Scenarios. Chelsea Green Press.
- Holmgren, D. 2009. Future Scenarios. Chelsea Green Press.
- Lazlo, E. 2001. The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time. Hampton Press.
- Margulis, L. and D. Sagan. 1995. What is Life? University of California Press.
- Meadows, D.H. 2008. Thinking in Systems. Chelsea Green Press
- Varela, F. J. 1999. Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom and Cognition. Stanford University Press.
- Von Bertalanffy, L. 1968. General Systems Theory. Braziller Press
