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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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      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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      World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse

      Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute)

      In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.

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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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      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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      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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      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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      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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      The Earth Policy Reader

      Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute),Janet Larsen,Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts,Earth Policy Institute

      Award-winning environmental analyst Lester R. Brown and his colleagues chart progress in building the eco-economy, an economy that is compatible with the earth’s ecosystem.

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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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      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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      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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      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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      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 1999: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

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

      This annual volume from the Worldwatch Institute shows in graphic form key trends that often escape the attention of the news media, world leaders, and economic experts, but should be…

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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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