A recent mid-day radio program here in Washington DC had a couple of very well-informed, well-educated, and articulate commentators talking about the green economy. One, at some point early in the hour went out of her way to say something along the lines of ‘that [something] is a trend…well no, I don’t mean trend as [...]

A central discipline in systems thinking is a rigorous and constant appreciation of context.  Nothing can be understood – really – unless you’ve figured out two things.  The first step in understanding is teasing apart the relationship between the thing you’re studying and everything else in the system. The second step is understanding not only [...]