Recent Major Publications by Lester Brown

Books:

Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2008).

Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2006).

Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2005).

Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: (2003).

The Earth Policy Reader (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: (2002), w/Janet Larsen and Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts.

Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2001).

Eco-Economy Updates:

"Want a Better Way to Power Your Car? It's a Breeze" (9/2/08) (originally appeared in the Washington Post (8/31/08)
"World Facing Huge New Challenge on Food Front: Business-as-Usual Not a Viable Option" (4/16/08)
"Melting Mountain Glaciers Will Shrink Grain Harvests in China and India" (3/20/08)
"Timeline for The Beginning of the End for Coal" (4/2/08)
"U.S. Moving Toward Ban on New Coal-Fired Power Plants" (2/14/07)
"Why Ethanol Production Will Drive World Food Prices Even Higher in 2008" (1/24/08)
"Is World Oil Production Peaking?" (11/15/07)
"Ban the Bulb: Worldwide Shift from Incandescents to Compact Fluorescents Could Close 270 Coal-Fired Power Plants" (5/9/07)
"Massive Diversion of U.S. Grain to Fuel Cars is Raising World Food Prices" (3/21/07)
"Distillery Demand for Grain to Fuel Cars Vastly Understated: World May Be Facing Highest Grain Prices in History" (1/4/07)
"Santa Claus is Chinese OR Why China is Rising and the United States is Declining" (12/14/06)
"Exploding U.S. Grain Demand for Automotive Fuel Threatens World Food Security and Political Stability" (11/3/06)
"The Earth is Shrinking: Advancing Deserts and Rising Seas Squeezing Civilization" (11/15/06)
"U.S. Population Reaches 300 Million, Heading for 400 Million: No Cause for Celebration" (10/4/06)
"Supermarkets and Service Stations Now Competing for Grain" (7/13/06)
“Let’s Raise Gas Taxes and Lower Income Taxes” (5/12/06)
“Wind Energy Demand Booming: Cost Dropping Below Conventional Sources Marks Key Milestone in U.S. Shift to Renewable Energy” (3/22/06)
"Learning From China: Why the Western Economic Model Will not Work for the World" (3/9/05)
"China Replacing the United States and World's Leading Consumer" (2/16/05)
" Foreign Policy Damaging U.S. Economy" (10/27/04)
"A Short Path to Oil Independence" (10/13/04)
"World Food Security Deteriorating: Food Crunch In 2005 Now Likely" (05/05/04)
"World Food Prices Rising: Decades of Environmental Neglect Shrinking Harvests in Key Countries" (04/28/04)
"Saudis Have U.S. Over a Barrel: Shifting Terms of Trade Between Grain and Oil" (4/14/04)
"Europe Leading World Into Age of Wind Energy" (4/8/04)
"China's Shrinking Grain Harvest: How Its Growing Grain Imports Will Affect World Food Prices" (3/10/04)
"U.S. Leading World Away From Cigarettes" (2/18/04)
"Troubling New Flows of Environmental Refugees" (1/28/04)
"Wakeup Call on the Food Front" (12/16/03)
"Coal:U.S. Promotes While Canada and Europe Move Beyond" (12/3/03)
"World Facing Fourth Consecutive Grain Harvest Shortfall" (9/17/03)
"Record Temperatures Shrinking World Grain Harvest" (8/27/03)
"China Losing War with Advancing Deserts" (8/4/03)
"Wind Power Set to Become World's Leading Energy Source" (6/25/03)
"World Creating Food Bubble Economy Based on Unsustainable Use of Water" (3/13/03)
"Global Temperature Near Record for 2002: Takes Toll in Deadly Heat Waves, Withered Harvests, & Melting Ice" (12/11/02)
"Rising Temperatures & Falling Water Tables Raising Food Prices" (8/21/02)
"Water Deficits Growing in Many Countries" (8/6/02)
"World Turning to Bicycle for Mobility and Exercise" (7/17/02)
"New York: Garbage Capital of the World" (4/17/02)
"Earth's Ice Melting Faster Than Projected" (3/12/02)
"World's Rangelands Deteriorating Under Mounting Pressure" (2/5/02)
"World Wind Generating Capacity Jumps 31 Percent in 2001" (1/8/02)
"This Year May be Second Warmest on Record" (12/18/01)
"World Grain Harvest Falling Short by 54 Million Tons: Water Shortages Contributing to Shortfall" (11/21/01)
"Rising Sea Level Forcing Evacuation of Island Country" (11/15/01)
"Worsening Water Shortages Threaten China's Food Security" (10/4/01)
"Wind Power: The Missing Link in the Bush Energy Plan" (5/31/01)
"Dust Bowl Threatening China’s Future" (5/23/01)
“Paving the Planet: Cars and Crops Competing for Land” (2/14/01)
“Obesity Epidemic Threatens Health in Exercise-Deprived Societies” (12/19/00)
“HIV Epidemic Restructuring Africa’s Population” (10/31/00)
“Fish Farming May Overtake Cattle Ranching As a Food Source” (10/3/00)
“OPEC Has World Over a Barrel Again” (9/8/00)
“Climate Change Has World Skating on Thin Ice” (8/29/00)
“The Rise and Fall of the Global Climate Coalition” (7/25/00)
“HIV Epidemic Undermining sub-Saharan Africa” (7/18/00)
“Population Growth and Hydrological Poverty” (6/21/00)
“U.S. Farmers Double Cropping Corn And Wind Energy” (6/7/00)
“World Kicking the Cigarette Habit” (5/10/00)
“Falling Water Tables in China” (5/2/00)