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.

Ken Burn’s new film The Dust Bowl, a two-part, four-hour documentary airs on PBS November 18 and 19, 8:00-10:00 p.m. ET (check local listings). The film chronicles this 1930s environmental catastrophe that destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains.

After the arrival of Full Planet, Empty Plates on bookstore shelves last week, Earth Policy Institute hosted a party to celebrate its official release. Along with good food and drink, Lester gave a brief talk on the main points of the book and answered questions from the attendees.

Lester Brown’s book, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity examines the underlying causes of what is likely the first link in our modern civilization to show that we have pushed beyond the boundaries of the natural systems that support us. For a full blog post, please visit the EPI website.

A new book is on its way to bookstores in your area. And we’ve already unloaded and unpacked our shipment! And we’re mailing out advance copies. For a full blog post, please visit the EPI website.