The Institute’s most intrepid researcher, Lester Brown, has been quietly making a splash speaking at select events in the DC area over the past few months on the findings in his recent book, Full Planet, Empty Plates. For a full blog post, please visit the EPI website.

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EPI had the pleasure of honoring President Obama at the Green Inaugural Ball on Sunday. For a full blog post with pictures, please visit the EPI website.

Outreach is an essential part of the mission of the Earth Policy Institute (EPI). With an in-house team of three people, we work to get EPI’s research into the hands of those who can use it. For a full blog post, please visit the EPI website.

With the pressure of writing two books this year, Lester Brown has kept his travel to the bare minimum. Nevertheless, he managed a weeklong trip to Europe following Thanksgiving. For a full blog post, please visit the EPI website.

In this spot, we often talk about happenings at Earth Policy other than our research. But at this time of the year, we wanted to give you a sense of what our research team has produced in 2012. For a full blog post, please visit the EPI website.