Editing Donella Meadows (section)

== Career ==
Meadows taught at [[Dartmouth College]] for 29 years, beginning in 1972.<ref name="meadows2008">Meadows, Donella H. 2008, ''Thinking in Systems: A Primer'', Chelsea Green Publishing, Vermont, p. 213 (About the Author), {{ISBN|978-1-60358-055-7}}.</ref>

She was honored both as a Pew Scholar in Conservation and Environment (1991) and as a [[MacArthur Fellowship|MacArthur Fellow]] (1994).<ref name = "meadows2008" /> She received the Walter C. Paine Science Education Award in 1990. Posthumously, she received the [[John H. Chafee]] Excellence in Environmental Affairs Award for 2001, presented by the [[Conservation Law Foundation]].

Meadows wrote "The Global Citizen,"<ref name = "meadows2008" /> a weekly column on world events from a systems point of view. Many of these columns were compiled and published as a book of the same name.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8yE5PzCacXoC&q=global+citizen The Global Citizen Donella H. Meadows, 1991; 300 pp. Island Press]</ref> Her work is recognized as a formative influence on hundreds of other academic studies, government policy initiatives, and international agreements.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}

She was a longtime member of the United States Association for the [[Club of Rome]], which instituted an award in her memory, the US Association for the Club of Rome Donella Meadows Award in Sustainable Global Actions. The award is given to an outstanding individual who has created actions in a global framework toward the sustainability goals Meadows expressed in her writings.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}