By Lester R. Brown The 21st century began on an inspiring note: the United Nations set a goal of reducing the share of the world’s population living in extreme poverty [ … ]
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Plan B 4.0 by the Numbers — Data Highlights on Poverty and Population
www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/press_room/C68/pb4_ch7_datarelease In Chapter 7 of the recently released Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Lester Brown lays out the Plan B goals for eradicating poverty and stabilizing population. Behind [ … ]
A Civilizational Tipping Point
By Lester R. Brown In recent years there has been a growing concern over thresholds or tipping points in nature. In my latest book Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save [ … ]
This Video Says It All
[social_buttons] Editor’s Note: This guest post is originally published at Green For All. People often ask me what the environment has to do with poverty, and why communities of color [ … ]
Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?
Lester R. Brown – Earth Policy Institute In the May issue of Scientific American Lester R. Brown, President of Earth Policy Institute, discusses how food shortages could be the weak [ … ]
Blog Action Day: St. Louis Urban Farm Provides Fresh Food and Economic Empowerment
Ever tried to buy fresh produce in an inner city grocery or convenience store? Good luck. Urban farming is one approach to addressing the “food deserts” so common in poor [ … ]
10 Easy, Free, Online Steps You Can Take To End Poverty
“Nobody is asking us to love others more than we love ourselves,” said the “poet president” of Tanzania Julius Nyerere. “But those of us who have been lucky enough to [ … ]
Earth Policy Institute: Increasing Equality by Educating Every Child
By Lester R. Brown The social and economic gap between the world’s richest 1 billion people and its poorest 1 billion has no historical precedent. Not only is this gap [ … ]