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Wednesday, December 14       9-10 pm U.S. Eastern Time

The evidence is clear: the scale of the human enterprise has outgrown our planet. We need to scale back in order for the children of the world to have a chance to live decent lives. But what is it that we need to scale back? Do we need to dramatically contract our population, or drastically shrink our consumption?

– Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich (author of The Population Bomb)
– Columnist/Blogger Madeleine Somerville (author of All You Need Is Less: A Guilt-Free Guide to Eco-Friendly Green Living and Stress-Free Simplicity)
– Filmmaker Dave Gardner (director of GrowthBusters)

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Webinar: Joy of a Steady State Economy

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Did you know current economic objectives are “pulling the rug” out from under our children’s future? What kind of economy will be sustainable in the 21st century? Join Brian Czech, author of Supply Shock and founder of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, for a conversation about the need for a steady state economy, what a steady state economy is, the benefits, and how we get there. Each webinar is one hour and 15 minutes. Registrants receive a link to view a replay in case they miss the webinar. This is a two-part series. Registration gets you into both webinars:

• Basic Webinar – February 15, 2017 at 9 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time
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Is the Population Taboo Behind Us?

Population growth and overpopulation are back in the public conversation.
Is this an opportunity to put us on track toward a sustainable human population?

Two authors and a filmmaker/media analyst share their observations and experiences, and discuss the changing landscape of public dialog about the role of population in the sustainability equation.

Wednesday, October 26        9 pm U.S. Eastern Daylight Time

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Alan Weisman
Countdown (Little, Brown and Co., 2013) Alan Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed were probably the most important questions on Earth – and also the hardest: How many humans can the planet hold without capsizing? How robust must the Earth’s ecosystem be to assure our continued existence? Can we know which other species are essential to our survival? And, how might we actually arrive at a stable, optimum population, and design an economy to allow genuine prosperity without endless growth? Countdown was awarded the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2013 Paris Book Festival Prize for nonfiction, the 2014 Nautilus Gold Book Award, and the Population Institute’s 2014 Global Media Award for best book. Alan Weisman has written for Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Orion, Mother Jones, Audubon and Discover. Weisman’s radio reports have been heard on NPR, Public Radio International and American Public Media. . . .

Growth Bias Busted

We launched this new “media watchdog” website in late May to shine a bright light on pro-growth bias in the media. This web initiative is alerting the public to the existence of pro-growth bias (thereby diminishing its power), and raising awareness among journalists that there is, at the very least, another side to the story when reporting on growth in population, GDP, housing starts, and consumption.

The Wall of Shame spotlights reporting and commentary rife with pro-growth assumptions, while the Wall of Fame celebrates examples of balance and accuracy in growth issues reporting. More than 10,000 visitors have read over 200 posts that famed or shamed U.S. President Barack Obama, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, the Pope, Bill Gates, Al Gore, Bindi Irwin, Marco Rubio, Pete Seeger, Gus Speth, Fred Pearce, Annie Leonard, Fox News, MSNBC, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, UK Guardian, and Associated Press – to name but a few. – See more at: http://www.growthbusters.org/about-2/what-citizen-powered-media-accomplished-in-2013/#sthash.NNyBQWSc.dpuf . . .