Video, podcasts, and transcripts of recent lectures, interviews, and teleconferences by EPI staff.


July 2, 2008
Podcast of press teleconference with Lester Brown: Time for Plan B: Cutting Carbon Emissions 80 Percent by 2020

June 4, 2008
Podcast on National Public Radio, Morning Edition, with Lester Brown regarding the food situation in China.

May 7, 2008
Food Situation Power Point presented by Janet Larsen to the “Washington Interreligious Staff Council – Energy and Environment Working Group.

April 28, 2008
Video of presentation on energy sponsored by the Energy Conversation.

April 25, 2008
CNN, "This Week in Politics" with Tom Foreman. Transcript of interview. Note, this transcript is for the entire program. Lester Brown's interview on Soaring Food Prices is about two-thirds of the way down.

April 17, 2008
Transcript of Earth Day Biofuels teleconference with Lester Brown, Ken Cook (President of the Environmental Working Group), and Jonathan Lewis (attorney and Climate Program Coordinator with the Clean Air Task Force. See also op-ed in Washington Post, "Ethanol's Failed Promise."

April 16, 2008
Podcast of press teleconference with Lester Brown: World Facing Huge New Challenge on Food Front

Aoril 7, 2008
Video interview of Lester Brown on Plan B 3.0 by Waylon Lewis, Elephant Journal and elephantjournal.com.

March 28, 2008
Video interview of Lester Brown by Plum TV

March 25, 2008
Video interview of Lester Brown by Elephant Journal

March 21, 2008
Podcast interview on Science Friday with Lester Brown on water.

March 20, 2008
Podcast of press teleconference with Lester Brown: Melting Mountain Glaciers Will Shrink Grain Harvests in China and India.

February 14, 2008
Podcast of press teleconference with Lester Brown: U.S. Moving Toward Ban on New Coal-Fired Power Plants

February 12, 2008
Podcast and text, "Saving the Planet is No Spectator Sport." Profile of Lester Brown by Voice of America.

February 5, 2008
Video of Lester Brown's presentation on Plan B 3.0 at the First Congregational Church, Riverside, CA.

January 24, 2008
Podcast of press teleconference with Lester Brown: Why Ethanol Production Will Drive World Food Prices Even Higher in 2008

January 18, 2008
Podcast: Q&A Lester Brown with Sherry Beall, Healthy Planet, Healthy Me about Plan B 3.0.

January 16, 2008
Podcast of press teleconference for Plan B 3.0.

January 11, 2008
Podcast Interview with Lester Brown by Ira Flatow of Science Friday. January 11, 2008.

January 7, 2008
Podcast: Q&A with Lester Brown and Bryan Walsh, Time magazine, on Plan B 3.0.

September 18, 2007
Lester Brown on the Gary Null show, Progressive Radio Network, discussing Plan B 2.0.

September 17, 2007
Lester Brown on "People & Power: Ethanol and Biofuels," Al Jazeera English channel on YouTube.

August 15, 2007
Janet Larsen discussed bottled water on WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi program.

July 13, 2007
Janet Larsen on bottled water vs tap water on Wisconsin Public Radio, the Joy Cardin program.

June 13, 2007
Lester Brown briefed the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the issue of ethanol. Transcript

May 9, 2007
Teleconference with Lester Brown: Ban the Bulb: Worldwide Shift from Incandesents to Compact Fluorescents Could Close 270 Coal-Fired Power Plants. Listen to the teleconference. Podcast of the Update.

April 20, 2007
Lecture by Lester Brown at Google headquarters. Topic: Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble. Watch the video.

April 18, 2007
First annual Distinguished Lecture, featuring Lester Brown, sponsored by The Berkeley Institute of the Environment.
Watch the video on Google or UC Berkeley.

April 17, 2007
Orville Freeman Lecture by Lester Brown sponsored by the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota. Transcript.

March 21, 2007
Teleconference with Lester Brown: Massive Diversion of U.S. Grain to Fuel Cars is Raising World Food Prices. Listen to the teleconference.

March 8, 2007
Podcast of Eco-Economy Update 64 "Water Prices Rising Worldwide" by Edwin Clark.

January 4, 2007
Teleconference with Lester Brown: Distillery Demand for Grain to Fuel Cars Vastly Understated: World May Be Facing Highest Grain Prices in History. Listen to the teleconference

September 20, 2006
Interview of Lester Brown by Earth & Sky radio on ethanol and the competition between food and fuel

August 16, 2006
Teleconference: Global Warming Forcing U.S. Coastal Population to Move Inland: An Estimated 250,000 Katrina Evacuees Are Now Climate Refugees by Lester Brown. Listen to the teleconference

August 14, 2006
Lester Brown discussing ethanol fuels, Plan B 2.0, and climate refugees with Marty Moss-Coane, WHYY.
 
August 4, 2006
Podcast interview by Renewable Energy Access talking with Lester Brown about grain-based ethanol

August 4, 2006
Interview of Lester Brown on NPR's Science Friday with Ira Flatow. Topic: food vs. fuel.

July 25, 2006
Interview of Lester Brown by Earth & Sky radio on Plan B 2.0.
http://www.earthsky.org/humanworld/interviews.php?id=49804

July 13, 2006
Teleconference: Supermarkets and Service Stations Now Competing for Grain (transcript in Word)

May 18, 2006
Presentation (video and pdf) by Lester Brown to Bayer CropScience Forum in Frankfurt

May 1, 2006
Video interview of Lester Brown by TreeHugger

April 6, 2006
Interview of Lester Brown on Plan B 2.0 by Greg Ross of American Scientist

April 5, 2006
Presentation on Plan B 2.0 by Lester Brown for Cambridge Forum

March 22, 2006
Interview of Lester Brown by Mark Anderson of Wired.
http://wired.com/news/politics/0,70455-0.html?tw=wn_index_3

March 13, 2006
Backbone Campaign interview with Lester Brown regarding setting up a Department of Sustainability.
www.backbonecampaign.org/conversations.cfm

March 6, 2006
Interview of Lester Brown by David Roberts of Grist.
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/

February 22, 2006
Interview of Lester Brown by Todd Neff of the Daily Camera.
http://web.dailycamera.com/audio/science/

February 6, 2006
World Affairs Council of Northern California, video presentation by Lester Brown: "China: Forcing the World to Rethink Its Economic Future" http://wacsf.vportal.net/

January 18, 2006
Rainforest Alliance lecture on Plan B 2.0 by Lester Brown, taped by Lohas Channel. http://www.lohaschannel.com/

January 13, 2006
Lester Brown discussing China's economy and Plan B 2.0 on Science Friday with Ira Flatow. http://www.sciencefriday.com/

August 2005
Lester Brown "Bringing Water to the World" plenary speaker at the 2005 Solar World Congress. This presentation is available on DVD through ASES.
http://www.asespubs.org/index.asp?
PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=52

May 2005
Iran Trip Report. An account of Janet Larsen's trip to Iran.

May 20, 2005
Lester Brown and Jeffrey Sachs on Science Friday with Ira Flatow, radio broadcast. http://www.sciencefriday.com

November 9, 2004
Keynote lecture presented at the International High-Speed Rail Conference in Tokyo, Japan.
Transcript of lecture

September 15, 2004
Watch a presentation by Lester Brown on Plan B given at George Washington University, sponsored by BetterWorld Telecon: www.bigpicture.tv.

July 9, 2004
Keynote lecture given at Quaker Friends' Conference. Transcript of lecture and Q&A.
Listen to the lecture
Part 1 (19 minutes)
Part 2 (20 minutes)

April 2004
Interview for NOVA's "World in the Balance" documentary.
http://www.pbs.org/nova/worldbalance

March 4, 2004
Environment Canada
Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress & a Civilization in Trouble
http://www.ec.gc.ca/seminar/Brown_e.html
French translation:
http://www.ec.gc.ca/seminar/Brown_f.html

October 14, 2003
New York Academy of Sciences
Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress & a Civilization in Trouble
http://www.nyas.org/ebriefreps
/splash.asp?intebriefID=221

September 24, 2003
Audio of talk at the San Francisco World Affairs Council on Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble.
http://wacsf.vportal.net/detail.cfm?fileid=3201

May 12, 2002
Evening lecture in Tokyo, sponsored by Junko Edahiro.
photos: http://pem-dream.com/report10.html

February 10, 2002
Keynote Address, TERI Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, New Delhi, India, "Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth."

January 25, 2002
Sierra Club Energy Forum
Read about the Forum's participants.
http://www.sierraclub.org/powerlunch
Read the article in Sierra magazine
Listen to sound bytes.

January 18, 2002
"Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth," A Vision of an Eco-Economy," The English-Speaking Union, Washington, D.C. This lecture was taped by C-SPAN 2 and aired over several months. Copies of the tape can be obtained by calling, toll free: 1-877-ON CSPAN (1-877-622-7726).

September 6, 2001, 8 pm
"Building an Economy for the Earth," Resurgence Conference, hosted by the Omega Institute. For copies of a cassette of the lecture, call the Omega Tape Shop (845-266-3704).

August 24, 2001
"Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth," CANSEE Keynote Address, McGill University, Canada. To read and download the transcript of the lecture (Adobe Acrobat required) http://www.mcgill.ca/mse/

July 10, 2001, 10:30 am
"China's Future: Food, Population, and Water," Chautauqua Institution. For copies of a cassette or CD of the lecture, call the Chautauqua Bookstore (716-357-6247).

August 14, 2000
Keynote lecture, Stockholm Water Conference
"How Water Scarcity Will Shape the New Century"

October 11, 2000
Keynote Speaker, North American Symposium on Understanding the Linkages Between Trade and Environment, World Bank, Washington, DC