January 15: Luncheon speaker at Women's National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC. Open to the public 11:30 - 2 pm. You can register for the lunch and lecture or just the lecture, which will start at 1 pm.

January 24:  Afternoon speaker, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Virginia.

January 25: Morning speaker on food insecurity, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Washington, DC

February 13: Luncheon speaker, Agriculture Committee of the Organization of Woman in International Trade, Washington, DC.

February 28: Speaker, Carnegie Council, Thought Leader Forum. Books for Breakfast, 8:00 am presentation on Full Planet, Empty Plates, New York City, NY.

February 28: Lester Brown will be speaking on Climate Change and the Food Crisis at a luncheon hosted by The Common Good, New York City. Reserve your place now.

April 15: Luncheon Keynote Speaker, National Food Policy Conference, Capital Hilton hotel, Washington, DC

August 5 or 6: Presentation, Will Water Become a More Limiting Resource for Food Production," AAEA 2013 meeting, Washington, DC

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February 10: Releasing Japanese edition of World on the Edge, Tokyo

February 10: 1-5 pm Keynote speaker, World on the Edge Launch Symposium, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. Click on link (Japanese only) for details.

February 12: Receiving Earth Hall of Fame Kyoto award, Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan

February 13: Keynote speaker at symposium on alternative automotive fuels, Beihang University, Beijing

February 14: 7:30 pm presentation, "World on the Edge," at Bookworm Bookstore, No.4 Courtyard, Sanlitun South St, Chao Yang District, Beijing, China

February 15: 10:30 am presentation "Why Food Prices May Keep Rising," Foreign Correspondents Club of China, Embassy of the Netherlands, Liangmahe Nanlu 4. Beijing

March 1: 11:30 am speaker at Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Challenges to Building a Sustainable Planet, The Rasmuson Theater, National Museum of the American Indian, 4th Street and Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC. Open to the public. Capacity is Limited. RSVP to consortia@si.edu

March 28: Morning speaker at Affordable World Security: Choice Points for America conference, Newseum, Washington, DC. This conference is free and open to the public. They just ask you to register. In addition, it will be live-streamed.

April 11: Panelist, New York Times' conference, Energy for Tomorrow, New York City, NY

April 12: Luncheon information discussion with Harvard's environmental sustainability students, Cambridge, MA

April 12: 4pm - 5:30pm. Receiving Harvard University's Alumni Environmental Award, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

May 20: Dinner speaker, American Farmland Trust, Washington, DC.

June 4: Morning keynote, The Seminar, sponsored by Fortune 500, San Diego, CA

June 7: 3pm - 3:30pm. Janet Larsen, Director of Research, webcast for Spring for Sustainability Summit. Free series of live, online and teleseminar events.

July 26: 4-6 PM  Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), special preview screening of Ken Burns' THE DUST BOWL. White House, EEOB, Washington, DC. Followed by reception at the Corcoran Gallery, RSVP to cgreen@neh.gov.

August 18-19: ARE Day speaker, Aspen, CO.

September 13: Morning speaker, InterAmerican Development Bank climate change workshop, Baltimore, MD.

October 4: Morning plenary speaker and afternoon forum, EcoSummit 2012, Columbus, OH

October 5: 5:30 - 7 p.m. Book party to release Lester Brown's book, "Full Planet, Empty Plates." Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC. RSVP jsimpson@earth-policy.org.

October 11: 6 p.m. roundtable on "Food and Sustainability: Which Future?" hosted by the Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, DC. Lester Brown will speak on "Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity." Reception at 5 p.m. Contact: econ.washington@esteri.it. Open to the public.

October 17: 4:30-5:30 p.m., webinar hosted by Van Eck Securities Corporation.

November 1: 12:30-2 p.m. presentation on Full Planet, Empty Plates at the World Bank, Auditorium  JB1-080, 701 18th Street NW, Washington, DC. Open to the public. Coffee and cookies will be served. RSVP: infoshopevents@worldbank.org

November 12: Lester Brown, inaugural address for the University of Maryland's Environmental Lecture series. Open to the public.
   Where:  Computer Science Instructional Center, University of Maryland, College Park
   4:00 p.m.  Reception in Atrium
   5:00 p.m.  Lecture in Room 1115
Parking is free after 4pm.  For more information on the Council on the Environment see:
http://cone.umd.edu/

November 26: Launching Dutch edition of Full Planet, Empty Plates, The Hague, The Netherlands.

November 27: 6:30 PM Presentation at the European Parliament, Brussels. Batiment Spaak, 2nd Floor, Room 3C50.

November 29: Keynote speaker, International Forum on Food and Nutrition, Milan, Italy. Sponsored by Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition.

November 30: Keynote speaker, University of Milan

November 30: Keynote speaker, Bologna University

December 4: Janet Larsen, book launch for The Global Farms Race:
Land Grabs, Agricultural Investment, and the Scramble for Food Security, Washington, DC. Open to the public.
   Where:  6th Floor Flom Auditorium
   Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
   1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC, USA
   3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
  
December 8: Concluding speaker, Chesapeake Climate Action Network conference on fracking, Baltimore, MD

December 12: Speaker at House Staff Briefing on climate change organized by Friends Committee on National Legislation, Washington, DC


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