"Eliminating water shortages depends on a global attempt to raise water productivity similar to the effort launched a half-century ago to raise land productivity, an initiative that has nearly tripled the world grain yield per hectare." –Lester R. Brown, World Facing Huge New Challenge on Food Front in Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

Books:

The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2015) with Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Roney, and Emily E. Adams

Breaking New Ground: A Personal History (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2013)

Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2012)

World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2011)

Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2009)

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) with Janet Larsen and Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts

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


Plan B Updates:

"India's Dangerous 'Food Bubble'" (12/4/2013)
"Peak Water: What Happens When the Wells Go Dry?" (7/9/2013)

"The Great Transition, Part II: Building a Wind-Centered Economy" (10/31/2012)
"The Great Transition, Part I: From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy" (10/25/2012)
"Rising Temperature Raising Food Prices" (8/8/2012)
"World in Serious Trouble on Food Front" (7/24/2012)

"U.S. Carbon Emissions Down 7 Percent in Four Years: Even Bigger Drops Coming" (11/2/2011)
"U.S. Gasoline Use Declining: Keystone XL Pipeline Not Needed" (10/6/2011)
"A Fifty Million Dollar Tipping Point?" (8/10/2011)
"When the Nile Runs Dry" (6/7/2011)
"Water Shortages Threaten Food Future in the Arab Middle East" (5/3/2011)
"World One Poor Harvest Away From Chaos" (2/15/2011)
"The Great Food Crisis of 2011" (1/14/2011)

"Rising Temperatures Raise Food Prices – Heat, Drought, and a Failed Harvest in Russia" (8/10/2010)
"U.S. Car Fleet Shrank by Four Million in 2009 – After a Century of Growth, U.S. Fleet Entering Era of Decline" (1/6/2010)

"Growing Demand for Soybeans Threatens Amazon Rainforest" (12/20/2009)
"The Copenhagen Conference on Food Security" (11/10/2009)
"U.S. Headed for Massive Decline in Carbon Emissions" (10/14/2009)
"On Energy, We're Finally Walking the Walk" (9/21/2009)

"Creating New Jobs, Cutting Carbon Emissions, and Reducing Oil Imports by Investing in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency" (12/11/2008)
"The Flawed Economics of Nuclear Power" (10/28/2008)
"New Energy Economy Emerging in the United States" (10/15/2008)
"Time for Plan B: Cutting Carbon Emissions 80 Percent by 2020" (7/2/08) with Janet Larsen, Jonathan G. Dorn, and Frances Moore
"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)
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