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Imperiling People, Posterity, and the Planet

Robert Walker | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Population, Living Planet, Energy Prices, Climate Change, Commodity Prices, Biodiversity, Environment, Sustainability, Resource-Scarcity, Water Scarcity, Consumption, Ecological Footprint, Food Security, Green News
Robert Walker

John Beddington, the U.K.'s chief science adviser, three years ago gave a speech in which he warned that population growth, climate change, and the world's rising demand for food, energy, and water constituted a "perfect storm" that could destabilize the world by 2030, or sooner.

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Remembering "Mom" on Mother's Day

Robert Walker | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Population, Women's Empowerment, Population Growth, Women's Rights, Women, Family Planning, Mother's Day, Climate Change, Mother Earth, Reproductive Health, Environment, Sustainability, Motherhood, Mother's Day 2012, Global Motherhood, Maternal Health, Green News
Robert Walker

Our mothers, including Mother Earth, have done their best to nurture and care for us. It's time to return the favor.

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Islanders' Genes Reveal Surprising Origin Of Blond Afros

| Ellen Loury | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Population, Melanesia, Video, Genes, Ancestors, New Research, Gene Mutation, Blonde, Genetics, Afro, Solomon Islands, Science News

Pay a visit to Melanesia's Solomon Islands, 1800 kilometers northeast of Australia, and you'll notice a striking contrast: about 10% of the dark-skinn...

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Imitation Outrage: Faking Concern for the Chinese Masses

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Population, Robert Scheer, Debt, History, Labor, Timothy Geithner, Trade, Economy, Wall Street, China, Hillary Clinton, Chen Guangcheng, Republicans, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Our leaders are no more serious about human rights in China than they are about such conditions in oil-rich Saudi Arabia, for the simple reason that we need what those nations have more than they need us.

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When Scientists Speak, Who Listens?

Robert Walker | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Planet Under Pressure, Population, Population Growth, Biodiversity, Royal Society, Environment, Sustainability, Climate Change, Resource-Scarcity, Consumption, Food Security, Climate Change Science, Science, Global Warming, Scientists, Green News
Robert Walker

If scientists get any media attention it's only because the science-deniers are ridiculing them. We live in the Era of Willful Ignorance. It is not only acceptable; it is fashionable to throw scientific caution to the wind.

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Can We Feed 9 Billion People?

Reuters | Laurie Goering | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Population, Video, Food Revolution, Green Earth Day, Climate Change Food, Food Crisis, Overpopulation, Reuters, Climate Change, Green Revolution, Green Bullet, Population Food, Global Warming, Green News

By Laurie Goering LONDON, May 2 (AlertNet) - In flood-hit fields in the Philippines, farmers are testing a hardy new variety of rice th...

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What Polar Bears Were Doing Half A Million Years Ago

Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Population, Dna, Grizzly Bears, Video, Species, Biology, Polar Bears, Evolution, Endangered Species, Climate Change, Animals, Bears, Global Warming, Arctic, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/19/2012 02:13 PM EDT on LiveScience Polar bears have been chilling on the ice far lon...

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The Dangers of Contraception Revealed

Robert Walker | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Abortion, Population, Population Growth, Family Planning, Ross Douthat, Abortion Rights, Contraception, Reproductive Rights, Birth Control Debate, Contraception Debate, Marriage Rates, Birth Control Pill, Birth Control, Divorce Rates, Population Control, Reproductive Health, Women's Health, Politics News
Robert Walker

There's a basic misconception that clouds the thinking of many social and religious conservatives. Believing that contraceptive use is a moral wrong, they desperately want to make it into a social ill. To do that, they confuse correlation with causation.

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Disconnection From Nature, a Dangerous Illusion

Peter Seligmann | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Population, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Conservation, Oceans, Earth Day, Green News
Peter Seligmann

Urbanization and the rapid pace of development are fostering a false sense of disconnection from the natural world within us, as we grow ever more removed from the sources of our food, water, energy and material goods.

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Teens in the Tinderbox

Suzanne Ehlers | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Population, Reproductive Health, Youth, Un, Cpd, United Nations, Impact News
Suzanne Ehlers

Young people are sophisticated enough to explore and define their values, and make informed decisions that help safeguard their well-being.

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The Next Wave of Successful Social Entrepreneurs

Thane Kreiner | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Population, Women, Education, Social Entrepreneurship, Health, Africa, Innovation, Skoll World Forum, Clean Energy, Global Poverty, Silicon Valley, Impact News
Thane Kreiner

Building relationships, developing others, and exhibiting integrity are perhaps more vital to success given the complex ecosystems in which social entrepreneurs operate.

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Jesuit Social Entrepreneurship

Thane Kreiner | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Easter, Global Social Benefit Incubator, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Social Impact, Skoll World Forum, Social Entrepreneur, Poverty, Jesuits, Population, Impact News
Thane Kreiner

Our mission at the Center is to help more social entrepreneurs help more people. Last year, we launched a GSBI Network among the network of Jesuit institutions of higher learning around the world -- all with a common mission to create a more just, humane, and sustainable world.

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Living on Planet Duggar

Robert Walker | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Planet-Under-Pressure-Conference, Population, Environment, Sustainability, Climate Change Denial, 19 Kids and Counting, Sustainable Energy, Climate Change, Michelle Duggar, Food Security, Michelle Duggar Overpopulation, Overpopulation, The Duggars, Green News
Robert Walker

Let's hope that Michelle Duggar knows vastly more about population and resources than all those scientists at "Planet under Pressure," a conference aimed at finding solutions to climate change and the challenge of feeding another 2.3 billion people by 2050.

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Micro Chameleons Are Cute -- and Threatened: Want to Help Them?

Mary Ellen Harte | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Population, Population Growth, Family Planning, Contraceptives, Developing Countries, Wildlife Conservation Society, Wildlife Conservation, Overpopulation, Madagascar, Conservation, Cute Animals, Chameleons, Deforestation, Wildlife, Science News
Mary Ellen Harte

I get frustrated watching nature shows or reading about fascinating habitats that I know are becoming increasingly threatened, with no mention about how threatened they are, and much less (and more importantly) how we can help personally.

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Santorum Wants You to Go Forth and Multiply

Robert Walker | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Population, Rick Santorum, Contraception, Family Planning, Birth Control, Social Issues, Politics News
Robert Walker

Is it because of the Biblical command, "Go forth and multiply," or does he have other reasons for making childbearing the central plank of his campaign? The voters of America deserve an answer to that question.

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Getting Real Regarding "San Francisco Values"

Craig Newmark | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Population, Americans, San Francisco, Values, Behavior, San Francisco News
Craig Newmark

Okay, I've lived in SF for a long time, not far from twenty years. Have gotten tired of hearing outsiders talk "San Francisco values" without having a...

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What Women Really Want for Valentine's Day

Robert Engelman | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Population, Robert Engelman, Empowerment, Sex, Reproductive Health, Education, Health, Girl UP, Ethiopia, Guttmacher Institute, Girls, United Nations Population Fund, Unfpa, Obama Youth Vote, Women, Worldwatch Institute, More, Global Motherhood, Impact News
Robert Engelman

Access to family planning and other reproductive health services safeguard the lives of women and their children and promote families that are emotionally and economically healthy.

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The Santorum Strain

Robert Walker | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Abortion, Population, Social Conservatives, Birth Control, Family Planning, Contraceptives, Rick Santorum, Contraception, Title X, Obama Birth Control, Rick Santorum Birth Control, Rick Santorum 2012, Obama Contraception, Rick Santorum Contraceptives, Women's Rights, Women's Health, Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Robert Walker

Santorum represents a strain in American politics that believes preventing unintended and unwanted pregnancies is both a moral wrong and a social ill: women who engage in sexual intercourse -- voluntarily or not -- should have children by chance, not by choice.

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10 Countries With the Largest Projected Population Growth: American Exceptionalism

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Abortion, Population, Population Growth, Family Planning, Emigration, 7 Billion People, Overpopulation, Fertility, Immigration, Life Expectancy, Demographics, Oecd, Thomas Malthus, India, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, Nigeria, United States, Philippines, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, China, World Population, World News
Howard Steven Friedman

The US population is wealthier, older, less fertile and more influenced by immigration than the other countries projected to experience major population growth, so why is the U.S. population is expected to grow much more than other wealthy countries?

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Population Set To Shrink By One-Third

AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Population, Population Growth, Video, Japanese, Japan, Japan Population, Ap, Japan Population 2012, World News

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's population of 128 million will shrink by one-third and seniors will account for 40 percent of people by 2060, placing a greater...

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Withdrawal Symptoms: What Happens When Baby Boomers Retire?

www.reuters.com | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Population, Demographic, Baby Boomers, Aging Population, Stocks, Retirement, Japan, Japan-Aging-Population, Demographics, Fifty News

If you're an investor in the stock market, you should cower in fear of Barry Uhl. Not that he's a mean or imposing guy. The 59-year-old is perfectl...

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Is Japan's Success of Myth?

David Wagner | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Population, Future, Nuclear Power, Japan, Food Security, World News
David Wagner

Japan's success is no myth. A nation with virtually no natural resources (other than its people) has done remarkably well as an economic powerhouse.

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America Sure Has a Funny Democracy

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Population, Iowa, Education, South Carolina Primary, Republican Primary, New Hampshire Primary, America, South Carolina, Iowa Caucuses, Democracy, Higher Education, Demographics, Iowa Caucus 2012, Politics News
Howard Steven Friedman

"So residents of these three states, three states that comprise only a very small percent of the US population, three states whose demographics do not come close to mirroring that of America... are going to be the major deciding factors in who represents the Republican party." "That's right."

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Farewell the Rhino

Robert Walker | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Population, Environment, Family Planning, Rhinos, Animal Extinction, Biodiversity, Western Black Rhino, Green News
Robert Walker

Quietly, without ritual or public fanfare, the Western Black Rhino this year was officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. None are believed left in the wild.

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If You Knew Newt Like I Knew Newt

Robert Walker | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Abortion, Population, Contraception, Population Growth, Family Planning, Newt Gingrich, Climate Change, Politics News
Robert Walker

Newt Gingrich loves new ideas. But, often, he's not very faithful to those ideas. There was a time, not that long ago, that he was infatuated with the idea of actually doing something about climate change.

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