| HARVARD UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THE
ENVIRONMENT
LECTURE ANNOUNCEMENT Lester R. Brown Monday, February 28, 2005 Lester R. Brown, founder and President of Earth Policy Institute, has been described by the Washington Post as "one of the world's most influential thinkers"and as "the guru of the global environmental movement" by The Telegraph of Calcutta. The author of numerous books, including Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (New York, Norton, 2003) where he develops a vision for an environmentally sustainable economy, chapters, articles, etc., he helped pioneer the concept of environmentally sustainable development. His principal research areas include food, population, water, climate change, and renewable energy. The recipient of scores of awards and honorary degrees, he is widely sought as a speaker. In 1974, he founded Worldwatch Institute, of which he was President for its first 26 years. As President, he launched the World Watch Papers, the Worldwatch/Norton books, the annual State of the World report, the bimonthly magazine World Watch, the annual Vital Signs, and the Institute's News Briefs. His latest work, published in January 2005, is: Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures. (New York, Norton, 2005). For more information on the Earth Policy Institute, please visit earth-policy.org. This event is open to the public. Sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) [Return to Syllabus] |