Consumption and Waste
Degrowth in the Americas: Understanding and Changing Our Worldview
By Suzanne York, May 15, 2012 A full agenda was on tap here at the first main day of the Degrowth in the Americas conference. Below is some of what was discussed at the morning session, which set the stage for this week-long event. It kicked off with a showing of the film Journey of
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Recent Posts
- Degrowth in the Americas: Understanding and Changing Our Worldview
- The Right Path for People and the Planet: Putting Population and Consumption Back on the Agenda
- Curbing Child Marriages: Supporting the Rights of Girls
- Rio+20 Mashup: Population, Youth, Human Rights and Women
- The 7 Billion Conversation: Addressing Water Scarcity Challenges
- Taking a Closer Look: Population, Poverty and Women’s Empowerment in Uttar Pradesh, India
- Relearning the “3 R’s” and More in a World of 7 Billion and Growing
- Is the World Ready for Gross National Happiness?
- The Rio+20 Agenda: The Future Only Some Want
- Debating Old News: The Contraceptive Coverage Controversy
Featured
By Jake Richardson, October 27, 2011 Searle Whitney is President of HowMany.org, a population studies organization. Due to this month’s marking of the seven billion humans on our planet, it seemed appropriate to ask him some questions about the consequences of our very large and growing population. 1. When you see this month the human
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Populating the Global ClimateTalks
By Suzanne York, HowMany.org, Dec. 8, 2011 As global talks on climate change proceed at the UN conference in Durban, South Africa, it’s a pretty sure bet that population growth won’t figure in any serious discussion. Always the elephant in the room, we ignore it at great cost to our communities and environment. Our numbers
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Busting Growth
By Suzanne York, HowMany.org, November 17, 2011 This week was the local premiere of the documentary film Growthbusters: Hooked on Growth. I have been anticipating this movie for awhile now, having been researching and writing on the world’s obsession with endless economic growth on a planet with finite resources. Growthbusters did a good job of
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Tackling the Growth Paradigm
By Suzanne York, HowMany.org, November 9, 2011 With the Occupy Wall Street protests gaining traction and the global economy in the doldrums, the time is ripe – actually, overdue – to question the policy of unrestrained economic growth in the face of not only the demands of the 99% but also a planet of finite resources and
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The Other 1%
By Suzanne York, HowMany.org, October 20, 2011 One percent is in the news a lot lately, with the Occupy Wall Street protests targeting bankers and the wealthiest Americans who comprise 1% of our population. But there is another 1% that we should keep in mind. Though it may be small, this other 1% is doing
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Water Issues
Designs on California’s Delta Water One of the biggest water issues in the state of California concerns the San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary (Bay Delta), the largest estuary on the west coast. The pressure is on California to effectively balance demands on its water supplies from the competing interests of environmentalists, cities, agriculture and our growing population. The San Francisco
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Energy and Carbon Emissions
The Population Factor and Ways to Cope with Climate Change and Migration By Suzanne York, HowMany.org, March 22, 2012 A study just released by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is warning that climate change could exacerbate environmental disasters in Asia and result in a surge of migration by people fleeing crises. In its report, Addressing Climate Change and Migration in Asia and the Pacific, the ADB observed
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Economics and GDP
Degrowth in the Americas: Understanding and Changing Our Worldview By Suzanne York, May 15, 2012 A full agenda was on tap here at the first main day of the Degrowth in the Americas conference. Below is some of what was discussed at the morning session, which set the stage for this week-long event. It kicked off with a showing of the film Journey of
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Other Resources
One Child Not Left Behind by Suzanne York, HowMany.org, September 15, 2011 In a land of 1.2 billion people that is projected to be the world’s most populous nation by 2030, India probably doesn’t come to mind when you hear about a rise in one-child families. But that is actually occurring, according to a study called Middle class dreams: India’s
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Family Planning and Women's Health
Curbing Child Marriages: Supporting the Rights of Girls By Suzanne York, May 11, 2012 If you think there is one issue that could gain bi-partisan support in the U.S. Congress, ending child marriage would likely be near the top of the list. Not only would a little bi-partisanship be good for the country, but preventing girls from marrying too young would improve lives.
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Food and Hunger
You Choose: The Future of 7 Billion By Suzanne York, HowMany.org, October 27, 2011 Demographers predict the 7 billionth child will likely be born on October 31st in India or China. No one really knows, of course, but the odds are in favor of the birth happening in one of those two countries, which between them have 2.5 billion people, or 1/3rd
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