“There’s a wealth of real possibilities for change to a more sustainable and more human course.” – Bill McKibben, billmckibben.com on Plan B.
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Released 2009
Lester R. Brown
Brown argues that food may be the issue that convinces the world of the need to cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2020. Every major environmental trend from climate change to deforestation and water scarcity affect food supplies. In this completely revised edition, Brown focuses on details of the plan and how it is already emerging in the energy economy.
Released 2008
Lester R. Brown
In this greatly revised edition, Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first century civilization. The scale and complexity of the issues facing our fast-forward world have no precedent. Brown outlines an ambitious plan that includes cutting carbon emissions 80 percent by 2020, achievable with existing technologies. The choice is yours and mine.
Released 2006
Lester R. Brown
An expansion and update to Brown's best-selling Plan B. Here he outlines a plan, a budget, and a timetable for rescuing our twenty-first century civilization. The plan includes eradicating poverty and stabilizing population, protecting and restoring soils, forests, rangelands, and fisheries, and conserving the earth's biological diversity.
Released 2004
Lester R. Brown
In this groundbreaking work, Lester Brown documents the ways that human demands are outstripping the earth's natural capacities-and how the resulting environmental damage is undermining food production. In Outgrowing the Earth, Brown investigates these issues and outlines the steps needed to secure future food supplies.
Released 2003
Lester R. Brown
Rated one of the Top Ten Books of 2003 by the Globalist and winner of the National Library Wen-Jin Book Award (Chinese edition), Plan B calls for a worldwide mobilization to stabilize population and climate before they spiral out of control. It provides a plan for sustaining economic progress worldwide.
Released 2002
Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, and Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts
In scores of countries, converging ecological deficits are undermining local economies on a scale that has no precedent. In The Reader, the authors examine the economic costs of these ecological deficits.
Released 2001
Lester R. Brown
Eco-Economy provides a vision of an environmentally sustainable economy along with a roadmap on how to get from here to there. Farsi edition awarded Best Nonfiction book by the Peka Institute (Iran). Japanese edition rated the #1 translation by Asahi Shimbun.