The 12 leverage points were proposed by Donella Meadows, a scientist and system analyst focused on environmental limits to economic growth. The leverage points, first published in 1997, were inspired by her attendance at a North american Free Trade agreement (NaFTa) meeting in the early 1990s where she realized that a very large new system was being proposed but the mechanisms to manage it were ineffective.
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How's this for a self-organizing event? Let's take a 125-year-old association and let all of the members around the world describe it today in celebration of an important birthday!