Articles by Lester Brown
Lester R. Brown is founder and president of Earth Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Follow EPI: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn
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Future at risk on a hotter planet
We are altering the earth’s climate, setting in motion trends we do not always understand with consequences we cannot anticipate.
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Feeding the world means hogging less grain
How many people can the Earth support? Depends on their level of food consumption. At the U.S. average of 1,763 pounds of grain per person annually for food and feed, the 2-billion-ton annual world harvest would feed just 2.5 billion people.
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Reducing urban water use around the world with compost toilets
Theodore Roosevelt once noted "civilized people ought to know how to dispose of the sewage in some other way than putting it into the drinking water." But that's what we're still doing every day.
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Conserving and rebuilding soils in the U.S. and around the world
Shelterbelts, strip cropping, and no-till practices are helping to keep American soil from blowing away, and African countries and China are planting "green walls" to keep the desert at bay. But overgrazing is going to be a problem.
