About a decade ago, my youngest daughter and I went to hear Lester Brown speak. Brown, a great orator, warned a large audience about the risks of global warming and species extinction. He made a ...

Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute is no fan of ethanol, and he stiffened up his stance in an interview with Foreign Policy magazine. Brown noted the huge jump in new ethanol plants and ...

Brown and colleagues raise the interesting question: what is the carrying capacity of the Earth's resources, especially the biological resources? Biologists and agriculturalists have long been able to ...