We are facing issues of near-overwhelming complexity and unprecedented urgency. Can we think systematically and fashion policies accordingly? Can we move fast enough to avoid environmental decline and economic collapse? Can we change direction before we go over the edge? I will look at the economic future through and environmental lens to fashion a plan that will sustain civilization. The plan has four components: a massive cut in global carbon emissions of 80 percent by 2020; the stabilization of world population at no more than 8 billion by 2040; the eradication of poverty; and the restoration of forests, soils, aquifers, and fisheries. Lester Brown started his career as a farmer, growing tomatoes in southern New Jersey with his younger brother during high school and college. Shortly after earning a degree in agricultural science from Rutgers University in 1955, he spent six months living in rural India where he became intimately familiar with the food/population issue. Brown went on to earn masters degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Maryland and in public administration from Harvard University. In 1959 Brown joined the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service as an international analyst, and in 1964 he became an adviser to Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman on foreign agricultural policy. In 1966, he was appointed Administrator of the department's International Agricultural Development Service. In early 1969, he left government to help establish .... + Informações

Thom sits down with Dr. Lester R. Brown, President-Earth Policy Institute / Author or co-author of more than 50 books, his latest is "World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse". + Informações

Founder and President of the Earth Policy Institute, Lester Brown, speaks about his new book World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse. The issues, says Brown, are critical -- and the big question is whether we can change direction before "we go over the edge." Among his points: solar, wind and geothermal energy, with energy efficiency, can provide all the power we need, but a massive effort must be made now to fully shift to these clean, safe, renewable energy technologies. He strongly rejects nuclear power. EnviroVideo #611 Running time 32:16 www.envirovideo.com. + Informações

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Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute, in an excerpt from a longer talk given in late 2011. The full, highly recommended talk is at www.youtube.com. + Informações

In this eleventh video in the series "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate" from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, analyst, author and founder of the Earth Policy Institute Lester Brown discusses how unprepared the world really is for the growing effects of climate change. "Economists doing supply and demand projections are largely unaware" of the scale of the resource crises facing the world, Brown says, and "food is going to be the weak link for our civilization as it was for so many earlier civilizations." To learn more about "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate," and to see the other videos in the series, visit www.TheNation.com.. + Informações

Il mondo è nelle nostre mani, le soluzioni per evitare una catastrofe ecologica esistono, applicarle è solo questione di volontà politica. Questa è un'ottima notizia. Il tempo che ci rimane per intervenire è però molto limitato, ci spiega Lester Brown uno dei più influenti ambientalisti del mondo. Se non interviene la nostra generazione, i nostri figli non ne avranno più la possibilità. Di questo si dovrebbe occupare la politica, non di puttane in Parlamento e della casa di Tulliani a Montecarlo. Le centrali elettriche a carbone vanno chiuse, ora e per sempre, sta già succedendo nel mondo, che si inizi anche in Italia. Organizzatevi, collegatevi ai movimenti internazionali che hanno già ottenuto la cancellazione di decine di centrali a carbone. Informatevi e agite per i vostri figli.. + Informações

La nostra civiltà è a rischio di estinzione. Il continuo utilizzo delle risorse terrestri oltre il tasso di rigenerazione ci sta portando velocemente a una crisi epocale. Lester Brown, ambientalista, economista, fondatore e presidente dell'Earth Policy Institute di Washington, è uno dei massimi esperti mondiali di ambiente. Nel suo ultimo lavoro, Plan B 4.0, lancia un serio allarme a tutti i governi del mondo.. + Informações

Partenaire de son dernier livre World on the edge (Basculement), l'ISTOM - Ecole supérieure d'agro-développement international - a accueilli M. Lester R. Brown dans le cadre de son cycle de conférences thématique, en septembre 2011. + Informações

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Thom sits down with Dr. Lester R. Brown, President-Earth Policy Institute / Author or co-author of more than 50 books, his latest is "World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse". + Informações

Conférence donnée par Lester R. Brown à l'ENSCI le 30 septembre 2011. Il y évoque les principales menaces pour notre civilisation, et la réponse (Plan B) que l'Earth Policy Institute qu'il a fondé propose. Cette conférence reprend une partie des contenus de son dernier livre : Basculement, comment éviter l'effondrement économique et environnemental, et répond aux questions de l'audience sur une variété de sujets.. + Informações

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NOTE - PLAN B 3.0 REMAINS THE CORNERSTONE WORK. STUDY IT. LEARN IT. TEACH IT. FULL BOOK / STUDY VIDEO www.youtube.com MATT DAMON MOVIE www.youtube.com AUDIO BOOK MP3 thepiratebay.org BOOK ONLINE PDF FREE www.earth-policy.org POWERPOINTS www.slideshare.net. + Informações

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I speak with Lester Brown, environmentalist and founder the Worldwatch Institute and founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute. We talked about his Plan B, cutting C02 emissions, and what technologies are being put in place right now to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions.. + Informações

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Where rising prices and food shortages were once temporary, driven by unusual weather, and fixed by countries like the US who could serve as a global buffer, the problem may now become unstoppable. Population growth, rising consumption, decreasing water supplies, and deteriorating soil are all part of the geopolitics of food. Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute and author of "World on the Edge" explains.. + Informações

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Lester Brown, noted economic and environmental Big Thinker, says change sweeping Libya and Middle East is a political tipping point comparable to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Speaking after the premiere of the PBS documentary, Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (broadcast Wednesday, March 30 at 10pm EDT), He says the unrest gives US the opportunity to re-define national and global security in order to address threats to human survival including water shortages, soil erosion, deforestation and population growth. For more information see www.earth-policy.org and a review of Brown's new book, World on the Edge at lastgenerationbc.com. + Informações

intervention introductive de Lester Brown, président du Earth Policy Institute et parrain des Assises du développement durable.. + Informações

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