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Lester R. Brown

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Born: March 27 1934

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Lester Russel Brown is an American environmentalist, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C. BBC Radio commentator Peter Day calls him "one of the great pioneer environmentalists."

In the mid-1970s, Brown helped pioneer the concept of sustainable development, during a career that started with farming. As early as 1978, in his book The Twenty-Ninth Day, he was already warning of "the various dangers arising out of our manhandling of nature...by overfishing the oceans, stripping the forests, turning land into desert." In 1986, the Library of Congress requested his personal papers noting that his writings “have already strongly affected thinking about problems of world population and resources.”

He has been the recipient of many prizes and awards, including, the 1987 United Nations Environment Prize, the 1989 World Wide Fund for Nature Gold Medal, and the 1994 Blue Planet Prize for his "contributions to solving global environmental problems."

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Lester R. Brown

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Books from Lester R. Brown

Earth from Above

Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth/Healing the Mind

Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse

Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble

Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity

The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy

Eco-Economy

Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures

Yerkürenin En Güzel Tarihi

Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet

Breaking New Ground: A Personal History

The Earth Policy Reader

Food and Democracy: Introduction to Food Sovereignty

Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-Colonial Era

State of the World 1998: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society

State of the World 2001

Vital Signs 1993: the Trends That Are Shaping Our Future (Paper)

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