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Summer 2009

Population
volume 24 no. 2

Journal

A Numbers Game

Feedback

Local News from All Over

Notes from a warming world

Planet Girth

by Gar Smith

Projects

Energy Action

Victory by Degrees

Women’s Earth Alliance

When Women Thrive, Communities Thrive

Restoration Initiatives

Economic Crisis Whacks CA Programs

Sex Sells

A Tiny Nonprofit Uses Mass Media to Encourage Family Planning

by Jason Mark

A Population Bomb

Too Many People and Too Few Resources Lead to Bloodshed in the Philippines

by Brad Miller

Trash Compactor

Eco-artist Tim Gaudreau

Border War

Immigration Is a Political Minefield. Can Environmentalists Have a Reasoned Debate on the Issue?

by Kari Lydersen

Hold Steady

If the Population Were to Shrink, What Would That Mean for an Economy Based on Growth?

by Deborah Rich and Jason Mark

The Division Over Multiplication

by Audrey Webb

Lester Brown

The Vindication of a Public Scholar

Forty Years After The Population Bomb Ignited Controversy, Paul Ehrlich Continues to Stir Debate

by Tom Turner

Last Stand in the Kunuku

One Woman’s Battle to Save Her Island’s Plants and Culture

by Patrick Holian

Fuel

Directed by Josh Tickell; Josh Tickell Productions
89 minutes

Going Green

Edited by Laura Pritchett, 209 pages, University of Oklahoma Press, 2009

Deeply Rooted

by Lisa Hamilton
306 pages, Counterpoint Press, 2009

More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want

by Robert Engelman
303 pages, Island Press, 2008

The Kindest Cut

by Matt Leonard