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Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures

Lester R. Brown

Historically, food security was the responsibility of ministries of agriculture but that has changed over the years: decisions made in ministries of energy may instead have the greatest effect on…

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Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures

Lester R. Brown

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Vital Signs 1997-1998: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

Lester R. Brown

The sixth annual guide to the environmental, economic and social trends which are shaping the future, this text presents the good news, the bad news, and a few surprises about…

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Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth

Lester R. Brown

A guide to the economy of the 21st century. It describes how the global economy can be restructured to make it compatible with the earth’s ecosystem so that economic progress…

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Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

Lester R. Brown

A different energy economy is emerging at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined. This book explores both the nature of this transition and how it…

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Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity

Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute)

With food supplies tightening, countries are competing for the land and water resources needed to feed their people.

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In the Human Interest: A Strategy to Stabilize World Population

Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute)

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Breaking New Ground: A Personal History

Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute)

An inspirational memoir tracing Lester Brown’s life from a small-farm childhood to leadership as a global environmental activist.

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State of the World 1993

1993 edition of the leading guide to global environmental issues.

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Tough Choices: Facing the Challenge of Food Scarcity

Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute)

Published for the World Food Conference to be held in Rome in November, this provocative book assesses the current food scarcity situation and proposes steps that can be taken to…

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Full House

Lester R. Brown, Hal Kane

Originally published in 1995, this book was written at a time when the world's food supply was no longer keeping up with population increases. This book examines the causes of…

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Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet

Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute)

This work discusses the consequences for the world’s food supply of rapidly increasing prosperity in China and the Tiger economies of the Far East. It argues that the prospects of…

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Eco-Economy

Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute)

One of the world’s most influential thinkers. -Washington Post

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Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures

Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute)

How human demands are outstripping the earth’s capacities-and what we need to do about it.

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Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity

Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute)

Food is the new oil. Land is the new gold.

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The Twenty-Ninth Day: Accommodating Human Needs and Numbers to the Earth’s Resources

Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute)

A lily pond, so the French riddle goes, contains a single leaf. Each day the number of leaves doubles-two leaves the second day, four the third, eight the fourth, and…

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Vital Signs 1997

The Worldwatch Institute,Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute),Christopher Flavin,Michael Renner

This annual volume from Brown and the Worldwatch Institute concisely presents the good news, the bad news, and some surprises about the health of our planet and civilization. Worldwatch’s award-winning…

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Beyond Malthus: The Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge

Lester R. Brown,Gary Gardner,Brian Halweil

An overview of the population problem and its relationship with issues such as health, biodiversity, climate change and education.

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The World Watch Reader on Global Environmental Issues

The Worldwatch Institute

In this collection of the best and most-requested articles from the Worldwatch Institute’s award-winning magazine, World Watch , the authors focus on such topics as energy and climate, the effects…

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The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy

Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute)

The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way.

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The Earth Policy Reader: Today’s Decisions, Tomorrow’s World

Lester R. Brown,Janet Larsen,Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts

This biennial reader charts the progress of the building of the eco-economy - an economy in harmony with the Earth’s ecosystems. It highlights 12 key trends, from population growth to…

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The Earth Policy Reader: Today’s Decisions, Tomorrow’s World

Lester R. Brown,Janet Larsen,Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts

This biennial reader charts the progress of the building of the eco-economy - an economy in harmony with the Earth’s ecosystems. It highlights 12 key trends, from population growth to…

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Full House: Reassessing the Earth’s Population Carrying Capacity

Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute),Hal Kane

Exploring the link between population growth and the availability of food stocks, this study warns of the seriousness of the problem if future food stores are depleted, or fail to…

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Saving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Sustainable Global Economy

Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute),Christopher Flavin,Sandra Postel

The authors of the highly acclaimed State of the World series elaborate upon their vision of a global economy that does not destroy its own natural support systems.

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State of the World 2000: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Towards a Sustainable Society

The Worldwatch Institute,Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute),Christopher Flavin,Hilary F. French (Worldwatch Institute),Sandra Postel

State of the World 2000 shines an intense light on the great challenge our civilization faces: how to use our political systems to manage the difficult and complex relationships between…

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Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge

Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute),Gary T. Gardner (Worldwatch Institute),Brian Halweil (Worldwatch Institute)

On the bicentennial of Malthus’s legendary essay on the tendency for population to grow more rapidly than the food supply, the question facing the world is not whether population growth…

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Vital Signs 2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

The Worldwatch Institute,Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute),Michael Renner,Brian Halweil (Worldwatch Institute)

Whether you read Vital Signs for a preview of the next decade or to verify a particular trend, you will find it comprehensive and authoritative. Vital Signs is an excellent…

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