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For more information on population and consumption growth, see the following:
How and Why Journalists Avoid the Population-Environment Connection
by T. Michael Maher, University of Southern Louisiana The Environmental Movement's Retreat from Advocating U.S. Population Stabilization (1970-1998): A First Draft of History by Roy Beck and Leon Kolankiewicz, The Journal of Policy History, 2000 Download the article (124k pdf. Requires Adobe Acrobat reader ). The Numbers Game: Myths, Truths and Half-Truths About Human Population Growth and the Environment
Consumption PolicyStuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things by John C. Ryan and Alan Thein Durning, Northwest Environment Watch. How Much is Enough? The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth by Alan Thein Durning. Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess by Robert H. Frank. The Winner-Take-All Society: How More and More Americans Compete for Ever Fewer and Bigger Prizes, Encouraging Economic Waste, Income Inequality, and an Impoverished Cultural Life by Robert H. Frank. Tax Shift: How To Help the Economy, Improve the Environment, and Get the Tax Man Off Our Backs by Alan Durning and Yoram Bauman. The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure and The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumer by Juliet B. Schor. Consuming Desires: Consumption, Culture and the Pursuit of Happiness, edited by Roger Rosenblatt, offers a variety of essays by various commentators on the subject.
Growth LimitationBetter Not Bigger: How to Take control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community by Oregonian Eben Fodor. Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train by Brian Czech. Energy and the Ecological Economics of Sustainability by John Peet. The Growth Illusion by Richard Douthwaite.
Individual Load Lightening Actions for Self and EarthMaybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single-Child Families by Bill McKibben. The Betrayal of Science and Reason by Paul and Anne Ehrlich. Belieiving Cassandra by Alan Atkisson.
Population PolicyMisplaced Blame: The Real Roots of Population Growth by Alan Thein Durning and Christopher D. Crowther. Published by Northwest Environment Watch. How Many Americans: Population, Immigration and the Environment by Leon F. Bouvier and Lindsey Grant. Juggernaut: Growth on a Finite Planet and Elephants in the Volkswagen: Facing Tough Questions About Our Overcrowded Country by Lindsey Grant.
Sustainable EconomicsBeyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development by Herman E. Daly. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins. When Corporations Rule the World and The Post Corporate World: Life After Capitalism by David C. Korten. The Case Against the Global Economy: And For a Turn Toward the Local edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith. Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop them All by Brian Czech. Eco-Economy by Lester Brown.
SustainabilityThe Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature by David Suzuki and Amanda McConnell. Ecological Economics by Herman Daly.
WorkThe Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure by Juliet Schor. The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era by Jeremy Rifkin. Sustainability
In May of 2000, Governor John Kitzhaber issued an executive order directing state government to become more sustainable. Oregon Solutions is a website that emerged from the Governor's Executive Order on sustainability in state government. The site, a collaborative effort by state agencies, non-profits, private entities, and dedicated individuals, is designed to let those interested in sustainability share resources, communicate new ideas, and learn from each others' experiences.
Consumption PolicyGrowth Management and Slow GrowthIndividual Load Lightening Actions for Self and EarthOregon Conservation and Environmental OrganizationsMost conservation and environmental organizations work on the symptoms of growth, and we're glad they do! However, you might encourage them to integrate overpopulation and overconsumption into their thinking and programs as it is the root cause of all environmental and many social problems. National or multi-state organizations with offices in Oregon include:
Other Interesting Sites
Population PolicyPublic Interest Environmental Law FirmsThese organizations usually represent conservation and environmental organizations and sometimes individual plaintiffs in environmental lawsuits.
Sustainability Think Tanks
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