Lester Brown

The Weather Becomes the News: An Interview With Earth Policy Institute Founder Lester Brown

Christal Smith | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Drought, Natural Disasters, Tornadoes, Lester Brown, Earth Policy Institute, Flood, Disaster Management, Emergency Preparedness, Green News

What does climate change have to do with preparing for upcoming disasters? A whole lot, it turns out.

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Food Prices May Soar to Crisis Levels

Robyn Griggs Lawrence | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Policy, Global Food Crisis, Earth Policy Institute, Food Crisis, Lester Brown, Food Prices, Grain Prices, Green News

Several trends, including aquifer depletion, severe soil erosion, rising temperatures and population growth, indicate that the world is headed toward a food security crisis today,

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World on the Edge

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earth Policy Institute, Free Market, Saving Civilization, Externalities, Peak Oil, Lester Brown, Climate Change, Poverty, Global Economic Crisis, Books News

One of the attractive habits in American civilization is to ask: well, what's your plan? In his recent book World on the Edge, Lester Brown offers one.

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Hunger for Change

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Riots, Fao, Eqypt, Lester Brown, Police, Tunisia, Food Prices, Ussr, Casablanca, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Food and Agricultural Organization, Politics News

Sharply rising food prices have often meant trouble for governments, especially when people expect better and the cost of food is a big fraction of a...

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How to Bring Down the Coal and Oil Goliath: A Million Personal Letters

Steve Valk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, 350.Org, Climate, Clean Energy, Congress, Coal, New Yorker, Fossil Fuels, Lester Brown, Climate Change, Environment, Oil, James Hansen, Bill Mckibben, Global Warming, Senate, Solar Power, Lobbyists, Epa, Carbon Pricing, Advertising, Brookings Institution, Green News

A price on carbon is still our best hope. But how do we overcome the insidious influence of dirty energy and pass effective climate legislation?

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Global Warming: An Inspiring Opportunity

Jurriaan Kamp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Hawken, Copenhagen Climate Council, Al Gore, Ode Magazine, Copenhagen 2009, Amory Lovins, Hermann Scheer, Jay Harman, Gunter Pauli, Global Climate Change, Climate Change, Lester Brown, The Solutions We Need Now, Global Warming, Green News

The well-timed news is out: the 2000-2009 decade is likely to become the warmest since records began in 1850. Our special issue of Ode Magazine presents breakthrough solutions to delegates in Copenhagen.

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Energy Bookshelf: Ten More Worth Your Time Than Super Freaky Crap

A. Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Littlemore, Farm City, Plan B 4.0, Green, Eco-Friendly, Sustainability, Climate Change, Environmental, No Impact Man, Book Reviews, Global Warming Deniers, Climate Delayers, Global Warming, Energy, Colin Bean, Conservation, Green Building, 2044, Energy Bookshelf, Plan B, Catastrophic Climate Change, Science as a Contact Sport, Almost Green, Stephen Schneider, Building Green, James Glave, Eric Lotke, Keith Farnish, Operation Redwood, Lester Brown, S Terrell French, Evironmental, Carbon Dioxide, Novella Carpenter, Climate Cover-Up, James Hoggan, Greg Caven, Green News

The authors of Superfreakonomics super(freaky)star status means that they and their travesty of a book will get attention despite its non-truthful truthiness and misleading mediocrity on climate-change.

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Brown, Obama and the Dalai Lama

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dalai Lama, Tai Chi, Copenhagen 2009, Earth Policy Institute, Acupuncture, Chi Kung, Qigong, Lester Brown, Barack Obama, China, Green, Business News

President Barack Obama is caught between a rock and a hard place -- between Mr. Brown and the Dalai Lama. Last October, when Barack Obama canceled hi...

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Have We Reached Our Civilization's Tipping Point?

Linda Buzzell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tipping Points, Plan B, Ecopsychology, Lester Brown, Ecotherapy, Civilization, Green News

In his new book, Lester Brown explores the tipping points that overwhelmed previous civilizations reveals clues about our present situation.

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Looking to WWII Lessons to Fight Climate Change: Lester Brown's Plan 3.0

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Lester Brown, Plan 3.0, Global Warming, Climate Change, Green Energy, Green, Sustainability, Green News

I had an opportunity to hear straight from the source about Lester Brown's Plan B 3.0 for saving civilization. If nothing else, it's ambitious.

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Vote Against (Climate) Change

Waylon Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Green Jobs, Hitler, Mccain, Going Green, Climate Change, Obama, Fdr, Green Living, World War II, Lester Brown, Green Energy, Global Warming, Green News

It's a time for leadership. "Bipartisan" is a nice word, but those who practice it are derided by their friends, and not supported by their enemies (just ask John McCain circa 2000).

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Vote Against (Climate) Change

Waylon Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Green Jobs, Hitler, Mccain, Going Green, Obama, Fdr, Green Living, World War II, Green Energy, Lester Brown, Global Warming, Green News

It's a time for leadership. "Bipartisan" is a nice word, but those who practice it are derided by their friends, and not supported by their enemies (just ask John McCain circa 2000).

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How Did Things Get so Bad So Quickly? (Sustainability Primer Part 1)

Matthew Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Population, Ecology, Overpopulation, Environment, Sustainability, Ecosystems, Collapse, Lester Brown, Green News

"The bottom line is that the world is in what ecologists call an "overshoot-and-collapse" mode. Demand has exceeded the sustainable yield of natural s...

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