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How Many People Can the World Support? It Depends...

Carl Safina | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Population Growth, Climate Change, Anthropocene, John Stewart Mill, Overpopulation, Thomas Malthus, Resources Environment, Forests, Green News
Carl Safina

We need a new, non-burning energy economy, a way of reducing population, and a way of replacing the delusion of infinite growth. That's what we need. Or the population will be adjusted in the usual way: with shortages, bullets, and bombs.

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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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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Andrew Winston | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Limits to Growth, Thomas Malthus, Keystone XL Pipeline, Durban Climate Change, Heat Waves Texas, Droughts Climate Change, Occupy Wall Street, Climate Change 2011, Green Business 2011, Green Sustainability, Clean Economy, Green News
Andrew Winston

It's time to look back on what we've learned and oversimplify into a handy list. Here's my take on the 10 big stories in sustainability and green business this year.

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World Population To Reach 7 Billion On Halloween

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 11.24.2011

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You should expect more than ghosts, spirits and candy when Halloween arrives this year. On October 31, 2011, the world will welcome its seven billiont...

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Meatless Monday: Dealing With Abundant Scarcity

Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Mcdonalds, Abundance, Scarcity, Middle East, French Revolution, Thomas Malthus, Meatless Monday, Green News
Ellen Kanner

With all the hype about greening your life, one of the most basic things you can do happens to be the most important -- going for a more plant-based diet.

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The Twin Elephants in the Room

Paul and Anne Ehrlich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Population, Population, World Population, Population Growth, Energy Consumption, Population Control, Overpopulation, Consumption, Thomas Malthus, Green News
Paul and Anne Ehrlich

Two large-scale, interconnected trends are driving almost every other global crisis today. But don't expect to hear about them from the media.

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The Revolution...Sorry, Transformation Starts Now!

Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Innovation, Scarcity, Energy Innovation, Progressives, Innovation, Unionbusting, Progressive Movement, W. Edwards Deming, Progress, Wisconsin, Egypt Revolution, Revolution, Buckminster Fuller, Scott Walker, Transformation, Abundance, Unions, Thomas Malthus, Wisconsin Protests, Politics News
Steven G. Brant

I predict the naked power grab by the Republican party in Wisconsin will go down in history as the second "shot heard 'round the world" which began the second American Revolution. Except it won't be a revolution. It will be a transformation.

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'Peak Oil' Doesn't Matter

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thomas Friedman, John Tierney, Population Bomb, Canadian Oil Sands, Radical Islam, Opec, Wall Street Journal, Goldman Sachs, Matthew Simmons, Peak Oil, Paul Ehrlich, Petro-Dictatorship, Rare Earth Metals, Julian Simon, BP Oil Spill, Jim Woolsey, Thomas Malthus, Oil Supplies, Green News
Andrew Winston

Are we running out of oil? According to the New York Times, apparently not. But it doesn't matter. We're crazy to rely on it for any longer than we absolutely have to.

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