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MISSION
Since the publication of Silent
Spring and the birth of the modern environmental movement,
the environmental community has worked hard to arrest the deterioration
of the Earth’s health. Many battles have been won, but we are
losing the war. The Earth’s capacity to support the economy
continues to deteriorate. The gap between what we need to do to
arrest the deterioration of the Earth and what we are doing continues
to widen.
Somehow we have to turn the tide. The purpose of the Earth Policy
Institute is to provide a vision of what a sustainable
economy will look like and a plan for how to get from here to there.
RESEARCH PRODUCTS
Books
Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. One of the major discussions in this greatly updated edition, is the urgency of moving quickly to reduce carbon emissions 80 percent by 2020. Chapters 11 and 12 show how very doable this goal is. (See Table of Contents.)
Plan B 2.0: Rescuing
a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble. A major expansion and update to the best-selling Plan B. Here is a plan, a budget, and a timetable for rescuing our twenty-first century civilization. The plan includes eradicating poverty, stabilizing population, protecting and restoring soils, forests, rangelands, and fisheries, and conserving the earth's biological diversity. (See Table
of Contents.)
Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures. This book documents the ways that human demands are outstripping the
earth's natural capacities—and how the resulting environmental
damage is undermining food production. The book also contains the steps needed to secure future food supplies. (See Table of Contents.)
Plan B: Rescuing
a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble.
Our modern civilization is in trouble. We have created a bubble
economy, one whose output is artificially inflated by overconsuming
the earth's natural capital. Plan B is a way of sustaining economic
progress worldwide, an alternative to continuing environmental deterioration
and eventual economic decline. (See Table
of Contents.)
The Earth Policy Reader In scores
of countries, converging ecological deficits are undermining local
economies on a scale that has no precedent. In The Reader,
EPI examines the economic costs of these ecological
deficits and assess progress in building an eco-economy. (See Table
of Contents).
Eco-Economy:
Building an Economy for the Earth The purpose of Eco-Economy
is to describe the new economy, to provide a vision of what it will
look like, how it will work, and how we get from here to there (See
Table of Contents). Pulitzer Prize winner,
E.O. Wilson, called it "an instant classic." TheGlobalist.com
named it one of the Top Ten Books (in the world) in 2001. The Japanese
edition was rated the number one recommended translation by Asahi
Shimbun.
Plan B Updates
The Plan B Updates
(formerly Eco-Economy Updates) are short analyses assessing our progress toward building an eco-economy.
EPI releases about two Updates
a month. They are available via EPI's free
electronic news service.
Eco-Economy
Indicators
Eco-Economy Indicators
highlight 12 of the major trends that are affecting progress
toward an eco-economy. The indicators are available in both graphical
and time series tables. Accompanying each indicator is a description
of the trend relating it to the development of an
eco-economy. The Indicators are
updated when new data becomes available and released via EPI's electronic
news service.
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DISSEMINATION
As a small organization with a global mission, the Earth Policy Institute has designed a unique information dissemination model, capitalizing on the synergy between a worldwide network of book publishers, the communications media, and the Internet. Through this distribution network, countless individuals and organizations have become aware of the environmental issues facing the world and many have been inspired to take action. Find out how.
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Board Members
Contact Us
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Our staff (l to r): Jonathan, Fran, Reah Janise, Lester, Millicent, Sway, Matt, and Janet
The 2008 10-mile Cherry Blossom Race runners!
Top to bottom and left to right: Lester, Janet, Matt, Reah Janise, and Consuela
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STAFF BIOS
, founder and President of Earth Policy Institute, has been described
by the Washington Post as “one
of the world’s most influential thinkers” and as “the
guru of the global environmental movement” by The
Telegraph of Calcutta. The author of numerous
books, including Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization where he develops a vision for
an environmentally sustainable economy, chapters, articles, etc.,
he helped pioneer the concept of environmentally sustainable development.
His principal research areas include food, population, water, climate
change, and renewable energy. The recipient of scores of awards
and honorary degrees, he is widely sought as a speaker. In 1974,
he founded Worldwatch Institute, of which he was President for its
first 26 years. As President, he launched the World Watch Papers,
the Worldwatch/Norton books, the annual State
of the World report, the bimonthly magazine World Watch,
the annual Vital Signs, and the Institute’s News Briefs. For relaxation, Lester runs. Read a complete biography.
View a selected list of recent publications by Mr. Brown.
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Lester Brown
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, co-founder and
Vice President, has assisted Lester Brown in his work since 1986.
As in any small organization, Reah Janise wears many hats. She oversees
the administrative aspects of EPI, including managing its worldwide
publishing network, outreach program, website, marketing, fundraising,
and personnel. Prior to her work at EPI, she worked at the Worldwatch Institute for 15 years as Lester Brown's special assistant and as Director of International
Publications. Prior to joining
Worldwatch, she was an editor and technical writer focusing on sustainable
agriculture at Michigan State University, from which she graduated
with a degree in English. She and her husband are ministers with the Ann Ree Colton Foundation of Niscience. Reah Janise squeezes exercise into her busy
day by either running or biking to work.
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Reah Janise Kauffman |
, Manager of Publications
Sales and Assistant Treasurer, brings with her more than 20 years
of people-oriented sales/service experience. Warm and personable,
Millicent manages easily the diverse and exacting area of customer
service, publications fulfillment, database management, accounting, and ordering office supplies. Prior to Earth Policy,
she was the Publications Sales Coordinator at Worldwatch Institute
for 11 years. A graduate of Commonwealth College in Richmond, VA,
Millicent enjoys classic movies and reading.
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Millicent Johnson |
, Director of Research, holds a degree in Earth Systems from Stanford University. Janet manages Earth Policy Institute's research program with Lester Brown, planning new projects and coordinating the efforts of the research team. She uses her interdisciplinary background in researching the Eco-Economy Updates, and the Eco-Economy Indicators. Prior to the incorporation of EPI, Janet worked at Worldwatch Institute on the Issue Alerts, State of the World, and Vital Signs. She is also a contributor to The Earth Policy Reader. Janet has written on a variety of topics including primate decline, illegal logging, land use, and population. Other interests include agriculture, biodiversity, global change, natural resource management, and urban design. She has spent time studying the rainforest and the amphibians of the Peruvian Amazon and enjoys the great outdoors.
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Janet Larsen |
Staff Researcher, holds a B.S. in Applied Biology, summa cum laude, from The Georgia Institute of Technology, a M.P.P. in Environmental Policy from University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from University of Arizona. He has served as an ORISE Fellow in the HIV Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an Environmental Fellow in the U.S. House of Representatives, and a field researcher at Estacion Biologica La Suerta in Costa Rica where he studied Lepidoptera species diversity. Jonathan has written and published articles on HIV variability and detection, bioremediation of hydrocarbons, GMOs and the WTO, and international environmental agreements, such as NAAEC. Jonathan’s current interests include climate change, water scarcity, and ecological economics. As a staff researcher at EPI, Jonathan contributes to on-going research projects. In his spare time, Jonathan enjoys home restoration projects, gardening, nature walks, and entertaining his cats.
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Staff Researcher, graduated in 2006 from Harvard University with a degree in Earth and Planetary Science. She is particularly interested in the problem of climate change and has worked at the Climate Institute and spent time on Svalbard studying the relationship between climate and glacial change in the high arctic. As a staff researcher at EPI, Fran is responsible for gathering material for on-going research, fact checking, and editing EPI research. Originally a UK native, Fran loves traveling and has visited much of Asia and the Middle East. She also enjoys outdoor adventures, particularly hiking, sailing and SCUBA diving.
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Administrative Assistant, graduated from San Diego State University with a B.A. in Journalism, and a minor in Anthropology. Throughout college, she worked as a Web Assistant for KPBS.org, San Diego’s local PBS/NPR station website, wrote and edited columns as The Daily Aztec’s Opinion Section Editor, and helped excavate the remains of a freed slave’s homestead on Palomar Mountain. At EPI, Sway assists Reah Janise with media outreach, organizes press clips, tracks website statistics, disseminates the Earth Policy News, and provides secretarial support for Lester. She has a knack for web-related communications, and enjoys maintaining websites and sharing vital news with friends and family. Sway loves to shop at vintage clothing stores, walk around the National Mall and Memorials, and DJ at bars and lounges in the District.
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Staff Researcher, graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2006 with a BS in Environmental Conservation, summa cum laude. He was named “Most Outstanding Student” by the E.C. faculty two years in a row. While attending UNH, he worked with the City of Dover, NH’s Environmental Projects division of Community Services. As an intern, Matt scans internet resources for news clips and scientific studies relevant to the research team’s work, provides various reports for Lester, and assists Janet with the upkeep and organization of EPI’s library. Matt’s current interests include biodiversity and tropical ecology, ecotourism, Chesapeake Bay conservation, and climate change. In his free time, he enjoys eating crabs with his lovely wife Sarah, listening to reggae music, canoeing, and suffering as an Orioles fan.
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BOARD MEMBERS
Judith Gradwohl, Chairman
William Mansfield
Scott McVay
Raisa Scriabine
Hamid Taravaty
CONTACT US
Earth Policy Institute
1350 Connecticut Ave. NW
Suite 403
Washington DC 20036
Phone: 202.496.9290
Fax: 202.496.9325
Email: epi@earthpolicy.org |
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