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Lester R. Brown: A hotter planet means less on our plates
Climate Change: The Next Generation —
Authority: 485
A hotter planet means less on our plates by Lester R. Brown, November 22, 2009 As the U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen approaches, we are in a race between political tipping points and natural ones. Can we cut carbon emissions fast enough to keep the melting of the Greenland ice sheet ...1 week ago -
Plan B Update: The Copenhagen Conference on Food Security
Sustainablog —
Authority: 498
Lester R. Brown For the 193 national delegations gathering in Copenhagen for the U.N. Climate Change Conference in December, the reasons for concern about climate change vary widely. For delegations from low-lying island countries, the principal concern is rising sea level. For countries in southern Europe, climate ...2 weeks ago -
Energy Bookshelf: A Super Ten more worth your time and money than Freaked-out Freakonomics
Get Energy Smart! NOW!!! —
Authority: 565
Sad-to-say, the air waves and oped pages and blog posts have been filled with Steven Levitt’s and Steven Dubner’s shallow, truthiness-laden Superfreakonomics. The continued attention feeds on itself, as ignoring the deceptions and the mediocre interviews booked due to the authors’ Super(freaky)star status ...3 weeks ago -
Learning to be un-American
VIEWS FROM BAY RIDGE —
Authority: 130
Lester Brown of the Overseas Development Council and President of the Earth Policy Institute , calculates that if Americans reduced their meat consumption by only 10 percent per year, it would free at least 12 million tons of grain for human consumption — or enough to feed 60 million people. ...3 weeks ago -
Plan B 4.0 Book Byte: Three Models of Social Change
Green Options —
Authority: 149
Lester R. Brown Can we change fast enough? When thinking about the enormous need for social change as we attempt to move the world economy onto a sustainable path, I find it useful to look at various models of change. Three stand out. One is the catastrophic event model, which I call the Pearl Harbor model, where a ...4 weeks ago -
Plan B 4.0 Book Byte: The Rising Tide of Environmental Refugees
Green Options —
Authority: 149
Lester R. Brown Our early twenty-first century civilization is being squeezed between advancing deserts and rising seas. Measured by the biologically productive land area that can support human habitation, the earth is shrinking. Mounting population densities, once generated solely by population growth, are now also ...5 weeks ago -
U.S. Headed for Massive Decline in Carbon Emissions
Green Options —
Authority: 149
http://www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/plan_b_updates/2009/update83 By Lester R. Brown Emissions Drop 9 Percent in Last Two Years For years now, many members of Congress have insisted that cutting carbon emissions was difficult, if not impossible. It is not. During the two years since 2007, carbon emissions have ...5 weeks ago
