WHO'S USING PLAN B . . . & HOW

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The Plan B Team is made up of people who have purchased and distributed 5 or more copies of Plan B. Hats off to California State University, Chico, which is adopting Plan B as its campus wide "book in common." Plan B will be required reading for all incoming freshmen. The university says that it is being used in many courses in History, English, Philosophy, Communications, Political and Social Science, Freshman Thematic, Multi Cultural & Gender Studies, Intro to University Life and Honors program. Discussion group meetings and forums are also being planned. The University also had Lester Brown, the author, speak on campus in November 2004. Total books: 2,400

EXCERPTS

Magazines
Hope Magazine, Sept 2003
Environmental Awareness (NGO in India), Oct 2003
PRIMAFF magazine(Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries), Oct 2003
Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct 17, 2003
E Magazine, Nov 2003
World Ark (Heifer International), Fall 2003
USA Today (Soc. for the Advancement of Education), Nov 2003
Renewable Resources Journal, Autumn 2003
The Humanist, Nov/Dec 2003
Business Ethics, Nov/Dec 2003
The Futurist , Nov/Dec 2003
Mother Earth News, Dec 03/Jan 04
The Reporter (Population Connection), Winter 2003
World Grain, December 2003
Environmental Finance, Dec 03/Jan 04
Ode Magazine, Jan 04
Pop!ulation Press, Jan 04
Mother Earth News, Feb/Mar 04
Nikkei Ecology, February 2004
Environmental Awareness, Feb 2004
Shargh newspaper (Iran), Feb 8, 2004
The Optimist, Spring 04
Spirit of Change, May/June 04
Japan Agricultural News, June 04
The Commonwealth, July 15, 2004 (Commonwealth Club of California)
Alternatives économiques, Nov 04 (France)
Heifer International, Nov 04
Cost Management, Dec 04
Japan Agricultural News, Dec 04
Journal of Energy Conservation, Jan 05

Newspapers
New York Press (cover story), Sept 10, 2003
Postimees (Finnish), Sept 5, 2003

Electronic Magazines
TheGlobalist, week of Sept 7, 2003
TheGlobalist, Oct 13, 2003
One World, week of Sept 7, 2003
World Business Academy, Sept 8, 2003
Global Healing 2003
People and the Planet, Sept 17, 2003
Delicious Living, Nov 2003
The Globalist Factsheet-Food, Nov 28, 2003
The Globalist Factsheet-Population, Nov 29, 2003

Listservs
Green-innovations.asn.au, Sept 1, 2003
PlanetWire, Sept 5, 2003
World Business Academy, Sept 10, 2003
Brooklyn Bridge Newsletter, Sept 29, 2003
Gallon Environment Letter, Dec 2003

Book Chapters
Bernadette McDonald and Douglas Jehl (eds.), Whose Water Is It? The Unquenchable Thirst of a Water-Hungry World (National Geographic Press, Washington, D.C.: 2003).

Lester R. Brown, "Deflating the Bubble Economy Before it Bursts," Year in Perspective 2003 Vol. 17 (World Business Academy, Ojai, CA: 2004).

David Schlosberg and John Dryzek (eds.), Debating the Earth (Oxford University Press, London: forthcoming).

Thomas A. Easton, Taking Sides: The Environmental Issues 10 (McGraw-Hill Dushkin, IA: 2004) (forthcoming in November)
Sally Loughridge, Circle of Sages (in prep.)

REVIEWS

Magazines
New York Review of Books, Sept 28, 2003
Publishers Weekly, Sept 29, 2003
Science News, Sept 29, 2003
Friends of the Earth newsletter 2003
Future Survey 2003
Resurgence (U.K.)
OnEarth (NRDC magazine), Fall 2003
World Ark, Fall 2003
Booklist, Oct 2003
The Bulletin, Kennedy School at Harvard, Nov 2003
World Union (India), Nov 2003
SGI Quarterly, Winter 2003
American Forests Magazine, Winter 2003
Peace & Policy Journal, Winter 2003
Michael Consulting Group newsletter, Fall 2003
World Association of Soil and Water Conservation Journal, Fall 2003
China Environment and Sustainable Development
New Scientist, Nov 13, 2003
Finance and Development, December 2003
World-grain.com, December 2003
The Gallon Environment Letter, 12/17/03
Appropriate Technology, Vol. 30, No. 3
Future Survey Index, 2003
Conscious Choice, January 2004
Evergreen Monthly, January 2004
World Population Balance, January 2004
Santa Barbara News Press, February 8, 2004
SEJ.org, 2004
RI Solar Energy Assoc. newsletter, Spring 2004
Cosmos Club Bulletin, March 2004
BeFriending Creation, March-April 2004
Science Books & Films, April 2004
Trout, Spring 2004
Ecology, Vol 85 No 4, 2004
Timeline, July/August 2004
BioScience, August 2004
Rock News Service, Sept 2004
The Compendium Newsletter, Sept/Oct 2004
Chronogram, November 2004
EarthLink e.V. - The People & Nature Network
Omnipedia - Thinking for Tomorrow, Book of the Month, Sept/Oct 2004

Websites
VertigO - la revue électronique en sciences de l'environnement
Transnational Perspectives
Union québécoise pour la conservation de la nature

INTERVIEWS

Magazines
Delicious Living, Nov 2003
le guide Ressources, Jan 2005

Radio
Wisdom Radio, Sept 5, 2003
Eco-Talk, Sept 9, 2003
Successful Farming (5 shows), Sept 2003
Voice of America, Sept 17, 2003
KPFK, Free Forum (2 shows), Sept 23, 2003
streaming on the web at www.kpfk.org on Dec 2, 2003

KALI Air Talk, Sept 23, 2003
KITS, The Green Hour, Sept 25, 2003
Radio Curious, Sept 26, 2003
NPR, KSCO-AM, "Food Chain," Sept 26, 2003
KVON-FM, Sept 29, 2003

Wisdom Radio, Sept 29, 2003
Wisdom Radio, Inner Wisdom, Septr 30, 2003
WBAI-FM, Michio Kaku, week of Oct 20
Gateways, Multicultural Broadcasting, Oct 15, 2003
BBC, World Business Report, Oct 17, 2003

NPR, Marketplace, Nov 26, 2003
Population Connection radio show, Dec 2003
NPR, Living on Earth, Dec 3, 2003
Talk Radio News, Dec 8, 2003
Keith Suter (Australia), Dec 10, 2003

KEXP, NPR "Mind over Matter," Feb 4, 2004
KGNU, Feb 10, 2004
Columbia University radio, Feb 12, 2004
KCLU, Feb 16, 2004
E-Town, Feb 17, 2004

NPR, KGNU, Feb 17, 2004
CBC Radio, Mar 8, 2004
NPR, New Horizons in Education, Apr 5, 2004
Radio New Zealand, Oct 12, 2004
KCHO, Nov 16, 2004

Television
Worldlink
Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
China Central TV (2 programs)
RAI TV, Italy
Tokyo Broadcasting (2 programs)


COLUMNS
Georgie Anne Geyer (syndicated), Sept 5, 2003

SPINOFF ARTICLES
Washington Post, Dec 14, 2003

PROFILES
Newhouse, Sept 23, 2003
Kennedy School, Alumni Profiles, Oct 2003

TALKS ON PLAN B

2003
The Globalist Salon, Washington, DC, Sept 14
Berkeley National Energy Lab, San Francisco, Sept 24
World Affairs Council of San Francisco, Sept 24
Santa Barbara reception & lecture, Sept 27
Women's National Democratic Club, DC, Oct 2
Population Connection board meeting, DC, Oct 4

NY Academy of Sciences, NY, Oct 14 (w/link to eBriefing)
Carnegie Council Book Breakfast, NY, Oct 15
Parliament, London, Oct 16
Presidential Medal Ceremony, Rimini, Italy, Oct 19
Council on Foreign Relations, Chicago, Nov 5

Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Nov 10
Global Forum, Tokyo, Nov 11
Hosei University, Nov 11
Japan Productivity Center., Tokyo, Nov 12
Nikkei Ecology, Tokyo, Nov 12

Japan University, Fujisawa, Nov 13
Architectural Inst of Japan, Joyshi University, Nov 13
Chiba Middle School, Tokyo, Nov 14
Chiba University, Tokyo, Nov 14
Zheijiang University, Hangzhou, China, Nov 16

Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, Nov 17
World Concern Institute, Beijing, Nov 18
Renmin University, Beijing, Nov 18
Third Global NGO Forum, Beijing, Nov 19

Harvard, Center for the Environment, Dec 4
Harvard, Kennedy School of Government, Dec 4

2004
Yale, School of Forestry, Feb 11
Columbia University, Earth Institute, New York, Feb 12
University of Denver, Feb 17
University of Colorado, Boulder, Feb 17
Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, Feb 18
University of Washington, Seattle, Feb 19
University of California, Santa Barbara, Feb 21
Environment Canada, Ottawa, Mar 4
University of Guelph, Canada, Mar 5
Cosmos Club, Book & Author, Mar 11
Wesleyan University, Apr 20
Environmental Assessment Summit, Baltimore, Apr 22
Teteuchi Lecture, University of Washington, May 19
Nat'l Assoc. of Science of China, Beijing, May 25
Nat'l Agricultural University of China, Beijing, May 26
Environmental Entrepreneurship Conf, China, May 28-29
Sustainable Management Forum, Tokyo, May 31
Foundation for Earth Environment symposium, Tokyo, June 1
Sustainable Japan symposium, Tokyo, June 2
Japan Environment Fndt symposium, Tokyo, June 2
University of Tokyo symposium, Tokyo, June 4
Cedar Lane Unitarian Church, Bethesda, June 13
Quaker Symposium, Amherst, July 9
State of the World Conference, Aspen, July 11
New American Foundation, DC, July 22
Clean Power Now conference, Cape Cod, August 18
Bard College, October 5
Dutchess Community College, October 5
World Affairs Council of Mid-Hudson Valley, October 6
SUNY-New Paltz, October 6
Sustainable Business Conf., Auckland, New Zealand, October 12
Sustainable Business Conf., Christchurch, New Zealand, October 14
Global Parliamentarians for Population & Development, Strasbourg, October 18-19
European Parliament, Brussels, October 21
Heifer International annual conference, October 22
Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA, October 27
GreenAccord conference, Italy, November 4-5
Wagner College, NY, November 9
Intl High-Speed Railway conference, Tokyo, November 9
Chubu Association of Corporate Executives, Nagoya, November 10
Ecosystem National Conference, Tokyo, November 11
Japan for Sustainability Conference, Osaka, November 12
Global Security Conference, Tokyo, November 13
UNEP Seminar on Sustainable Consumption and Production, Mexico, November 15
California State University at Chico, November 16
BetterWorld Telecom seminar, DC, December 1

US COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY COURSE ADOPTIONS
Course adoptions for Plan B are just beginning. Click here to see course adoptions.
Click here to see course adoptions for Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth, the author's previous book.



TRANSLATIONS
Plan B is being published in Chinese, English (U.S., U.K., and India/South Asia), Farsi (Iran), Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Spanish, and Thai.