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1000 days to the 7th Billion Human: What Do We Tell Her?

Ali Hakan Altinay | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Population, World Population, Climate Change, World Pop. 20011 7 Billion, Global Warming, World Population 2012 7 Billion, World News
Ali Hakan Altinay

We have roughly 1,000 days before the 7th billion human joins us on Planet Earth. A worthwhile exercise would be to imagine what we would say about the human condition awaiting her.

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The Great Convergence of Crises: Can We Handle the 21st Century?

Rahim Kanani | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

Read More: Population, Ethiopia, Poverty, Democratic Republic of Congo, World Hunger, Pakistan, United Nations, Immigration, Hunger, Education, Bangladesh, Climate Change, India, Education Reform, Uganda, Nigeria, China, Refugees, World News
Rahim Kanani

The symptoms of catastrophe are unmistakable, and the diagnosis is clear: we are in a race against time with the forces of the natural world.

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Mayim Bialik's Latest Role: Green Mom

Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: L.A., Holistic, Disposable, Children, Green Parenting, Babysitter, Waldorf Education, Diapers, Neuroscience, Strollers, Mothering, Eastern Europe, Actress, Medicine, Sitcom, Trend, Family, Research Professor, Materialism, Replacement Level, Nanny, Home-Schooling, Body, Nbc, Caregiver, Planet, Husband, Los Angeles, Sierra Magazine, Sustainable, Ucla, Reform Judaism, Health, Judaism, Population, Vegetarian, Homemade Hygiene Products, Bedsharing, Discipline, Earth, Liberal, Potty-Training, Cleaning Products, Cloth, Tolerance, Holistic Moms Network, Cats, Acting, Southern California, Kids, Celebrity, Stay-at-Home Mom, Mayim Bialik, Hollywood, Elimination Communication, Jewish, Tikkun Olam, Religion, Water, Fast Food, Slings, Environment, Mom, Shtetl, Blossom, Green News
Avital Binshtock

We know her as Blossom, that spunky adolescent on that eponymous sitcom. But since the series ended in 1995, Mayim Bialik, now 33, has truly blossomed.

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1950s vs. 2000s: The Drive to Supersize

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Population, Energy, Energy Star, Energy Efficiency, Low Iimpact, Electricity, Statistically Speaking, Pollution, No Impact, Green News
Bill Chameides

In the 1950s the average American consumed roughly 2,200 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year; today that number has grown to roughly 13,800 kilowatt-hours per year.

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Watching The World's Water Quality And Quantity

Lissa Coffey | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Population, Lissa Coffey, Global, Water Pollution, Water, The Giving Life, Sustainability, Conservation, Crisis, Green Living, Matt Damon, Pollution, Sanitation, Living News
Lissa Coffey

According to the World Health Organization, approximately 884 million people are without adequate drinking water, and 2.5 billion people are without adequate water for sanitation.

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Afghanistan Pullback: U.S. May Focus On Drone Attacks On Terrorists

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 09.23.2009 | World

Read More: White House, Kabul, Gates, Hindu Kush, Afghanistan Strategy, Forces, Obama, Retreat, Population, Afghanistan War, Mcchrystal, Stanley McChrystal, Department of Defense, Taliban, Afghanistan, General Mcchrystal, Pullback, World News

WASHINGTON — Military officials voiced frustration and congressional leaders urged caution Tuesday over what they described as President Barack ...

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Birth Control Could Help Developing World Combat Climate Change

AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Population, Population Growth, Reproduction, Reproductive Rights, World's Population, Third World, Climate Change, Birth Control Pill, Sexual Rights, High Population, Birth Control, Contraceptives, Developing World, Condoms, Global Warming, World News

LONDON — Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Frid...

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Q&A: Acclaimed Doc Director Robert Stone Reviews Our Earth Days

Brad Balfour | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmentalism, Ecological Issues, Sundance Film Festival, Robert Stone, Zeitgeist, Population, Earth Day, Green News
Brad Balfour

"Right now, the current battle over climate change, all it is being debated by Washington lobbying organizations," said Stone, "and how much money can you put into The Left versus The Right?"

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Reading Lion Tracks: New York Times' Friedman on Vacation in the Bush

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Population, Thomas Friedman, Brad Pitt, Africa, Angelina Jolie, Science, New York Times, Environmentalism, Biodiversity, Forests, Green News
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle

As long as we remain a bioilliterate populace of which only the wealthiest 0.1% can afford to have an expert interpret the hieroglyphics, and only lions and other celebrity species attract our interest, then we will continue to turn the dazzling diversity of life into cannon fodder.

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Finding Optimism on World Population Day

Carol Peasley | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: Population, Women's Rights, Michelle Goldberg, Reproductive Health, Unfpa, Women's Health, Reproductive Rights, World News
Carol Peasley

The early international family planning movement was dominated by "population control" advocates who too often forgot that women should be at the center of their thinking.

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Contraconception

Paula Gordon | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Resources, Population, James Carse, Mary Catherine Bateson, Childless, Children, Community, Frederick Ferré, Family, Living News
Paula Gordon

A tightly held secret is being kept from today's young people. Not having children can be great!

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Cameron Diaz on her Childfree Status and Why the Planet Needs More Non-breeders

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Population, Cameron Diaz, Childfree, Childless, Green News, Children, Overpopulation, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Kirsten Dirksen

Cameron Diaz: "I don't think it's a compromise to have children. I don't think it's a compromise not to... It's just a different choice." In 2009, women must still defend their choice to be child-free.

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A Modest Proposal (With Apologies to Jonathan Swift)

Geri Spieler | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Population, Iphones, Overcrowded-Cities, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Ncratic Party, Overcrowding, Environment, Earth, Green, Republican Party, Ipccl, Demo, Green News
Geri Spieler

The solution, of course, is to slow population growth. The benefits from reduced reproduction rates among humans are 20 times more effective than lifestyle changes.

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The Upside of the Minority Population Growth

John Ridley | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Population, Population Growth, Minority Population Growth, Minorities, Politics News
John Ridley

Here's what we know about minorities in America: their names are too hard to pronounce, they're responsible for bringing in the Swine flu -- as devastating as that was -- and they single-handedly caused the financial meltdown.

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Want to Fight Hunger? Empower Women and Prioritize Family Planning

Tod Preston | Posted 05.24.2009 | World

Read More: Population, Abortion, Starvation, Population Growth, Family Planning, Ethiopia, Abortion Debate, Overpopulation, Haiti, World News
Tod Preston

Ironically, family planning isn't seen as a sexy issue. And it wrongly gets mired in debates around abortion -- even though family planning reduces abortions.

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Are You Ready for the Year 2050?

Deborah Jiang Stein | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Census, Multiracial, Mutt, Population, Race, Living News
Deborah Jiang Stein

Everyone needs to be ready for a new landscape: all shades and all hues of skin color and cultures.

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Population And Earth: Zero Growth Or Armies Of Greenies?

Grist | Posted 05.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Population, Zero Population Growth, Poll, Overpopulation, Breeding, Green News

Today, Grist's advice columnist fields a question about population growth and its impact on the environment. It's a touchy subject. Here's the questio...

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Surging Vasectomies Signal Record Births are History

Robert Engelman | Posted 04.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Population, Contraception, Unintended Pregnancies, Births, Vasectomy, Living News
Robert Engelman

There has been a reported 50-percent increase in vasectomies, and many of the soon-to-be-sterile men are telling their doctors the economy made them do it.

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The Pope Reiterates Stance on Condoms and Loses Another Lapsed Catholic

Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 04.20.2009 | World

Read More: Population, Easter, HIV/AIDS Africa, Pope Condoms, Catholicism, Condoms, Pope Benedict XVI, Africa, World News
Marcia DeSanctis

How nice it would have been for those of us who can't help the fact that we were born Catholic, to see the church listen and respond to the world we inhabit.

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The Perfect Crash Course in The Economy

Charles Shaw | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Population, Internet, Peak Oil, Economy, Economic Crisis, Banking Crisis, Federal Reserve, Climate Change, Media, Business News
Charles Shaw

Chris Martenson created a three-hour long internet video that is a literal "crash course" in the economic, environmental, and societal "crashes" that are unfolding all around us.

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Octuplets' Mom In Violation Of Green Guru's Advice

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Population, Nadya Suleman, Octuplets Mom, Octuplets, Green News

Nadya Suleman, the octuplets' mom making headlines lately -- to recap, she just added 8 babies to the 6 kids she already had -- is a prime violator of...

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5 Dangerous Green Myths

Treehugger | Matthew McDermott | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Population, Vegetarian, Cfl, Birds, China, Pollution, Vegetarianism, Coal, Soy, Eating Matters, Extinction, Climate Change, Genetically Modified Food, Deforestation, Global Warming, Energy, Population Growth, Clean Coal, Corn, Green Living, Genetically Modified Crops, Food Matters, Local Food, Population Control, Overpopulation, Mining, Genetically Modified, Environment, Food, Wind Turbines, Green News

Can you tell the difference between eco fact and eco fiction? With the green movement growing in momentum, we frequently come across any number of st...

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The President and the Planet, On a Budget

DotEarth | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 12.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Population, Politics, Global, Poverty, President Obama, Military, Defense, Equity, Economics, Climate, Disease, Sustainability, Presidency, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Climate Change, Green News

President-elect Barack Obama on Jan. 20 will become the most important leader of a species that has exploded in just six generations from a total popu...

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Voodoo Science Blames Climate Change on Immigrants

Angela Kelley | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Population, Co2 Emissions, La Prensa Hispana, Latin America, Environment, Immigration, Climate Change, Emissions, Immigration Debate, Global Warming, Center for Immigration Studies, Green News
Angela Kelley

According to an anti-immigrant group's new junk-science report, immigrants would ultimately produce less CO2 if they just remained in their "less-consuming, less-industrialized, and less CO2 emitting" home countries.

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Why Care About Projected U.S. Ethnicity and Age?

Robert Engelman | Posted 09.14.2008 | Media

Read More: 2050, Census, Aging, Race, Ethnicity, Population, Census Bureau, Demographics, Changing Demographics, Us Population Projections, Media News
Robert Engelman

It's pretty curious, given the country's aspiration to be unbiased by race or ethnicity, that the topic of our ethnic mix fascinates the Census Bureau and the news media so much.

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