Donella H. Meadows

Donella H. 'Dana' Meadows (1941-2001) was an influential American environmental scientist, educator, and writer, best known as the lead author of *The Limits to Growth* (1972), which sold over 9 million copies in 26 languages and warned of planetary boundaries from exponential growth. She earned a B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College (1963) and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard (1968), then applied systems dynamics at MIT, authored multiple books, wrote the syndicated column 'The Global Citizen,' and founded the Sustainability Institute in 1996. A Pew Scholar and MacArthur Fellow, she lived on an organic farm in Vermont and died of bacterial meningitis at age 59.