Population Growth and Rising Consumption: What's Sustainable?

The Population Media Center, the Population Institute
and the Wallace Global Fund

Invite you to a Public Forum

"Population Growth and Rising Consumption: What's Sustainable?" 

October 6, 2009
9:00 a.m. -- 12:00 p.m
Barbara Jordan Conference Center
Kaiser Family Foundation
1330 G St. NW
Washington, DC 20005-3004 

Speakers include:

William Catton Jr., author of Bottleneck: the Human Impasse (2009)
Laurie Mazur, editor of A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice and the Environment Challenge (2009)
Peter Victor, York University, author of Managing without Growth (2008)
Dennis Meadows, author of Limits to Growth (1972) and
Limits to Growth: the 30 Year Update (2002)
Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute, author of Peak Everything:
Waking Up to the Century of Declines (2007)
Robert Engelman, WorldWatch Institute, author of
More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want (2008)

Space is limited:  please RSVP to Jennie Wetter
jwetter@populationinstitute.org

PowerPoint presentations:

William Catton, Jr

Laurie Mazur

Dennis Meadows

Richard Heinberg

Peter Victor

Link to the Podcasts (via iTunes):

http://www.populationinstitute.org/newsroom/podcasts/