The model starts in 1900. In the year 2000 you get the chance to set a new emission target and nominal time to reach it. Your aim is to have atmospheric CO2 stabilize at about 400 ppmv in 2100. From Sterman, John D. (2008) Risk Communication on Climate: Mental Models and Mass Balance. Science 322 (24 October): 532-533.
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Climate Stabilization Task
The simple diet SFD simulation elaborated to indlcue calories, calorie reduction and metabolism.
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Die with a "T"/Calorie Reduction
Inventory Model v4.0 calculates min days inv & max days inv and makes adjustments for desired service level. See also:
Inventory Model v3.0.
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Clone of Inventory Model v4.0
An escalation structure results from two or more competing entities with the competition taking them to somewhere none of them want to be. See also Archetypes.
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Escalation Archetype
This model introduces the S/O and +/- notation for depicting the relations that might exist between two elements along with why the +/- notation is preferred.
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Causal Loop Diagrams (Part 1)
How Systems Thinking World came to be where it is and where it's seems to be heading at present.
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About Systems Thinking World
Supply and Demand tend to oscillate back and forth though Price.
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Supply and Demand/SFD
While it's rather straight forward to invest money in places that generate interest over time why isn't that more of us don't do that and become rich?
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Why We're Not All Rich
Model in support of an article being written about Investment vs Austerity.
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Investment vs Austerity v2
Thoughts on why storytelling is critical for enabling others to understand relationship models once they're developed. This was done for the Learning Community Group at ODU Mar 2019.
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Storytelling for Understanding (ODU)
Perspective on the difference between Process and System.
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Process vs System
This model introduces the S/O and +/- notation for depicting the relations that might exist between two elements along with why the +/- notation is preferred.
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Causal Loop Diagrams/Part 1
Most savings/retirements accounts compound monthly, not annually.
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Retirement Account/Part 2
The Flipping a Coin insight computes and display the cumulative results of flipping a coin for 1,000 flips.
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Flipping a Coin
A map of the elements associated with Systems Thinking as defined by different sources.
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Systems Thinking Methodologies
Trying to understand the affect of loans on money in circulation.
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Loans Don't Create Money
What seems to make sense at this point is to first identify the functional aspects of the tool set even though we're aware they cannot all come from one vendor.
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Tool Requirements
The process as currently understood for developing and managing the scripts associated with videos and webinars.
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Script Mgmt Process
From reading Why
Politics Makes Us Stupid by Ezra Klein I though I had discovered a new archetype though it's really just a simple reinforcing structure, or so it seems.
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Politics Making Us Stupid
There exists a well defined set of possible ways to alter an existing set of interactions. Each of these alterations will produce a particular effect depending on the relations the change is relative to. Identifying which are possible and which will migrate the interactions to produce the desired situation is the essence of the strategy.
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The intent here is to provide guidance for creating well structured and documented relationship maps that you can share with your audience and they are likely to find understandable and informative.
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Relationships
The Button primitive enables you to write JavaScript code that controls various aspects of the model via the
Insight Maker API.
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Insight Maker/Button Scripts
Developing a strategy for dealing with a situation begins with a description of the situation and the preferred state for today, not in some distant future, and the perceived implications of not doing anything.
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Population Growth in an Agrarian Society with the addition of Deaths and Food Consumption.
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Food Consumption Impact