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Lester Russell Brown

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born

March 28, 1934 in rural New Jersey, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.earth-policy.org/About/Lester_bio.htm

genre

Social Sciences, Politics, Outdoors & Nature

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Lester Russell 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 aff...more

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Books by Lester Russell Brown

Average rating: 4.01 · 920 ratings · 175 reviews · 82 distinct works

	Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization 3.93 avg rating — 241 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble 3.96 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization 3.92 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse 4.03 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Eco-Economy: Building a New Economy for the Environmental Age 3.82 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble 3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures 3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Earth from Above by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Lester Russell Brown, Herve Le Bras 4.51 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2002 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge by Lester Russell Brown, Brian Halweil 2.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating: