Lester Brown

Inferno on Earth: Wildfires spreading as temperatures rise 1
Posted 2 days, 8 hours ago Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Even as more people move into fire-prone wildlands around the world, the intense droughts and higher temperatures that come with global warming are likely to make fires more frequent and severe in many areas.
Is this thing on?

Lester Brown and I, diavlogging 4
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago I recently recorded my first BloggingHeads TV ... episode? diavlog? not sure what they're called ... with Lester Brown, focused on the latest edition of his book: Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. My main takeaway from the experience is that I need a much better microphone on my laptop. The sound is pretty awful on my end. Also I'm long overdue for some beard maintenance. And media training. There's some chit-chat and technical glitches toward the beginning, but we get rolling about 5 minutes in.
The Copenhagen Conference on food security 7
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago For the 193 national delegations gathering in Copenhagen for the U.N. Climate Change Conference, 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 of East Asia and the Caribbean, more powerful storms and storm surges are a growing worry. This climate change conference is about all these things, and many more, but in a very fundamental sense, it is a conference about food security.
Three models of social change 6
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago 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, Lester Brown finds it useful to look at various models of change.
By the numbers—data highlights on poverty and population 1
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago 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.
The rising tide of environmental refugees 2
Posted 1 month ago 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.
U.S. headed for massive decline in carbon emissions 4
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago 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 dropped 9 percent. While part of this drop is from the recession, part of it is also from efficiency gains and from replacing coal with natural gas, wind, solar, and geothermal energy.
Been Brown so long

Lester Brown speaks sense on the food/climate crisis 12
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago I don't agree with everything Lester Brown says, but the man generally talks good sense. And damn it, policy makers should listen.
We need climate action on the scope of the WWII mobilization 7
Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Lester Brown talks about renewable energy expansion 2
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Wind, solar thermal, and geothermal development outpaces expectations 14
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Biofuels force the choice on us 16
Posted 2 years, 7 months ago
More from Lester Brown on ethanol and food costs 10
Posted 2 years, 10 months ago
And I’m checking it. Twice. 0
Posted 2 years, 11 months ago
Brown gets down 7
Posted 3 years, 4 months ago
You're a Good Man, Lester Brown

An interview with the founder of Worldwatch and Earth Policy Institute 7
Posted 3 years, 8 months ago
Gristmill exclusive!!!!! 4
Posted 3 years, 9 months ago
Me and Lester Brown 5
Posted 3 years, 9 months ago
Bigwigs Gaze into the Crystal Ball

Or, where do a bunch of white American men (and one woman) think environmentalism is headed in the 2 0
Posted 9 years, 10 months ago