By Suzanne York for HowMany.org, Dec. 22, 2011 You wouldn’t know it from the news, given the focus on the payroll tax cut, but international family planning funding has squeaked through the 2012 omnibus spending bill without being drastically cut. This despite Republican threats to do so. The most cost-effective way to deal with carbon
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By Suzanne York, HowMany.org, December 20, 201 Recently I came across a list of the world’s fastest growing cities and urban areas, as reported by the City Mayors Foundation, a U.K. think tank which encourages innovative and sustainable solutions to urban issues. I was rather shocked that the arid city of Sana’a, Yemen was third
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Admin note: This article first appeared on the CASSE blog (Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy) by Brian Czech Could President Obama be the one who leads Americans to recognize the ever-growing conflict between GDP and the health of the nation? Could Obama be the first to hearken the steady state economy
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By Jake Richardson, October 27, 2011 Editor’s note: This interview first appeared at Care2.org Healthy Living 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
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(Comment: Another year and another round of UN climate talks where finger-pointing, feet dragging, and back-and-forth discussions is the norm. As reported by the New York Times, China signaled that it would be open to signing a formal treaty limiting emissions after 2020 but with conditions that make serious efforts unlikely to happen. The stumbling
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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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