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Population News

• President Renews His Support for Family Planning and Reproductive Health
• Sequestration Impacts International Family Planning
• Werner Fornos (1933-2013)

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Our News

• The Population Institute Honors Rep. Joseph Crowley
• Population Institute Names 33rd Annual Global Media Award Winners
• Population Institute Launches “Halt the Assault” Campaign

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Op-Eds

• Jeremy Grantham Has Bad News and Good News
• Egypt: Too Big, Too Late to Save?
• Holy Holocene, It's the Anthropocene

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Podcasts

Podcasts by the Population Institute are available through iTunes. Click here to view and download all of our podcasts or you may directly access the most recent podcasts below.

• Population, Justice and the Environmental Challenge
  Laurie Mazur, the editor of Population, Justice and the Environmental Challenge (2009) discusses how family planning along with efforts to empower and educate women can help save the planet.
• Economics and Limits to Growth
  Dennis Meadows, co-author of Limits to Growth (1972) and Limits to Growth: the 30 Year Update (2002), discusses limits to growth and the economic implications.
• Bottleneck: the Human Impasse
  William R. Catton, Jr, the author of Overshoot: The Biological Basis of Revolutionary Change (1980) describes how the human species is evolving from Homo sapiens to Homo Colossus and endangering the planet.
• Peak Economy
  Richard Heinberg, author of Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (2007) discusses the economic challenge posed by population growth and resource scarcity.
• Managing without Growth
  Peter Victor, a professor of economics at York University, discusses how to maintain a healthy, full employment economy without relying upon endless growth.

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