Examines the potential effect of adding an additional 3.3 billion people to the Earth's population over the next fifty years and proposes an immediate expansion of international family planning assistance to Third World nations.

Product Description: An inspirational memoir tracing Lester Brown’s life from a small-farm childhood to leadership as a global environmental activist. Lester R. Brown, whom the Washington Post praised as “one of the world’s most influential thinkers,” built his understanding of global environmental issues from the ground up...read more

Charts the progress of the building of an eco-economy that is compatible with the earth's ecosystem, discussing such topics as wind-generated electricity, post-fossil fuel energy, and recycling industries. Original. (view table of contents)

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This study presents an account of how to rethink the industrial economy to work with, not against, the natural environment, exploring the vast economic potential and environmental gain that exists from eliminating the waste and destruction of current consumption.

Argues for the development of an environmentally sustainable society, outlining a plan that utilizes solar and wind energy and the light rail and bicycles instead of automobiles, and presenting evidence on the economic benefits of doing so. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This latest Worldwatch Environmental Alert series book addresses the critical questions: How many people can the earth feed? And at what consumption levels? Lester and Kane assert the world's farmers can no longer be counted on to feed the growing world population--and that balancing between people and food now depends on family planners...read more

This very successful textbook is distinguished by a superior writing style that draws upon common student experiences to introduce economic concepts, making economic theory more accessible and interesting. "Case Studies" and numerous examples take advantage of students' intuitive knowledge of economics, building upon real-life situations. A streamlined design places pedagogy and illustrations directly within the flow of the text, making it less distracting and more useful for students. A fully integrated program of technology enhancements sets this text apart by pairing the book with numerous online multimedia learning tools that have been developed to help the text better serve a wide range of learning styles. The text uniquely integrates classroom use of The Wall Street Journal by including a complimentary student subscription offer, as well as in-text pedagogy to help students learn to analyze the latest economic events as reported in the Journal. Split volume available for the one-term principles of microeconomics course, as well as a principles volume (Macro/Micro) for the two-term Principles of Economics course.

Product Description: Book by Brown, Lester R.

How human demands are outstripping the earth's capacities—and what we need to do about it. Ever since 9/11, many have considered al Queda to be the leading threat to global security, but falling water tables in countries that contain more than half the world's people and rising temperatures worldwide pose a far more serious threat. Spreading water shortages and crop-withering heat waves are shrinking grain harvests in more and more countries, making it difficult for the world's farmers to feed 70 million more people each year. The risk is that tightening food supplies could drive up food prices, destabilizing governments in low-income grain-importing countries and disrupting global economic progress. Future security, Brown says, now depends on raising water productivity, stabilizing climate by moving beyond fossil fuels, and stabilizing population by filling the family planning gap and educating young people everywhere. If Osama bin Laden and his colleagues succeed in diverting our attention from the real threats to our future security, they may reach their goals for reasons that even they have not imagined.

Provides alternative solutions to such global problems as population control, emerging water shortages, eroding soil, and global warming, outlining a detailed survival strategy for the civilization of the future. Simultaneous.

An updated edition of a multi-faceted plan to address critical environmental issues explains why large-scale responses are necessary to counter such twenty-first-century concerns as global warming, overpopulation, and rising energy costs.

“[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”―Katherine Salant, Washington Post As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined even a year ago. For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, we have begun investing in energy sources that can last forever. Plan B 4.0 explores both the nature of this transition to a new energy economy and how it will affect our daily lives.

The founder of the Earth Policy Institute describes the potential environmental disaster threatening the planet, pointing to rising temperatures, increasing populations, and a growing water scarcity and calls for a mobilization to stabilize Earth's climate by restructuring the global energy economy, maintaining population, and other key strategies. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Provides alternative solutions to such global problems as population control, emerging water shortages, eroding soil, and global warming.

Product Description: La civilización moderna tiene problemas. Hemos creado una burbuja económica, cuyos beneficios están artificialmente inflados por el consumo excesivo del capital natural de la Tierra. Pronto sonará la alarma. La alternativa al desastre ecológico es el "Plan B", una movilización mundial para estabilizar la población y el clima antes de que esos problemas aumenten y escapen a nuestro control...read more

Describes an environmental research team's plan for a global economy