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Showing posts with label I - IV Lester Brown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label I - IV Lester Brown. Show all posts
Friday, October 5, 2012
Food Is the New Oil and Land the New Gold: Lester Brown CNBC.com
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Romm, McKibben, Brown... 'Free Lunch,' 'Snake-oil' Hucksters, massively successful at milking looming Ecocide for personal gratification. Killing what time's left. Loving
Romm, McKibben, Brown... 'Free Lunch,' 'Snake-oil' Hucksters, massively successful at milking looming Ecocide for personal gratification. Killing what time's left. Loving
Thursday, August 23, 2012
nd 'The world starves for actionable info, and Romm, McKibben, Brown, Publious pander. Auth-whores.' Loving
nd 'The world starves for actionable info, leadership, and Joe Romm, Bill McKibben, Lester Brown, Gaius Publious pander. Auth-whores. Only Jim Hansen speaks what's needed.' Loving
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
1/4 of all warming is from forest loss, every year
http://www.earth-policy.org/book_bytes/2012/wotech10_1
Protecting the 10 billion acres of remaining forests on earth and replanting many of those already lost are both essential for restoring the earth’s health. Since 2000, the earth’s forest cover has shrunk by 13 million acres each year, with annual losses of 32 million acres far exceeding the regrowth of 19 million acres. Restoring the earth’s tree and grass cover protects soil from erosion, reduces flooding, and sequesters carbon.
Global deforestation is concentrated in the developing world. Tropical deforestation in Asia is driven primarily by the fast-growing demand for timber and increasingly by the expansion of oil palm plantations for fuel. In Latin America, the fast-growing markets for soybeans and beef are together squeezing the Amazon. In Africa, the culprit is mostly fuelwood gathering and land clearing for agriculture.
In recent years, the shrinkage of forests in tropical regions has released 2.2 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere annually. Meanwhile, expanding forests in the temperate regions are absorbing close to 700 million tons of carbon. On balance, therefore, some 1.5 billion tons of carbon are released into the atmosphere each year from forest loss, roughly one fourth as much as from fossil fuel burning.
July 31, 2012
We Can Reforest the Earth
Lester R. Brown
Protecting the 10 billion acres of remaining forests on earth and replanting many of those already lost are both essential for restoring the earth’s health. Since 2000, the earth’s forest cover has shrunk by 13 million acres each year, with annual losses of 32 million acres far exceeding the regrowth of 19 million acres. Restoring the earth’s tree and grass cover protects soil from erosion, reduces flooding, and sequesters carbon.
Global deforestation is concentrated in the developing world. Tropical deforestation in Asia is driven primarily by the fast-growing demand for timber and increasingly by the expansion of oil palm plantations for fuel. In Latin America, the fast-growing markets for soybeans and beef are together squeezing the Amazon. In Africa, the culprit is mostly fuelwood gathering and land clearing for agriculture.
In recent years, the shrinkage of forests in tropical regions has released 2.2 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere annually. Meanwhile, expanding forests in the temperate regions are absorbing close to 700 million tons of carbon. On balance, therefore, some 1.5 billion tons of carbon are released into the atmosphere each year from forest loss, roughly one fourth as much as from fossil fuel burning.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012
***** SHOCKINGLY UPBEAT: Building an Economy Centered on Wind Energy Mother Earth News
Mother Earth News -
By Lester R. Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute During the 20th century, oil took the lead. The 21st century will belong to wind.
IS THIS TRUE? THIS IS NO TIME FOR FALSE OPTIMISM. OUR KIDS DON'T GET A 2ND CHANCE.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Food, Not War, Is the Biggest Threat to World Security, Argues Lester Brown Scientific American
Scientific American (blog) -
By
Fred Guterl | March 29, 2012 | 3 Even as Iran's nuclear program raises
the likelihood of yet another conflict in the Middle East, the bigger
threat is a potential food crisis in the making, says Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
US carbon emission limit to speed up end of coal age - L Brown REVE
REVE -
said Lester Brown,
"106 of them are now scheduled to close this year, next year."
Actually, even if gas prices spike in future, the proposed rule would
still ensure a cut in the nation's carbon output, analysts here said.
"It seems to me that our scarcest resource is time", says Lester Brown, president at the Earth Policy Institute.
The Guardian -
"When I look ahead at Rio and beyond, it seems to me that our scarcest resource is time", says Lester Brown, president at the Earth Policy Institute.
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