EPIBuilding a Sustainable Future
Book Bytes

Highlights and adaptations from Earth Policy Institute's books and research.

November 03, 2009
Three Models of Social Change
October 22, 2009
The Rising Tide of Environmental Refugees
October 07, 2009
Our Global Ponzi Economy
August 20, 2009
Throwing Out the Throwaway Economy
August 12, 2009
A Civilizational Tipping Point
July 29, 2009
Learning from Past Civilizations
July 07, 2009
Rethinking Food Production for a World of Eight Billion
June 25, 2009
The Oil Intensity of Food
June 09, 2009
A Warming World Means More Destructive Storms
June 03, 2009
Melting Ice Could Lead to Massive Waves of Climate Refugees
May 07, 2009
Needed: A Copernican Shift
April 14, 2009
Protecting and Restoring Forests
April 07, 2009
Shrinking Forests: The Many Costs
March 17, 2009
Better Health for All
March 11, 2009
Health Challenges Growing
February 12, 2009
When Population Growth and Resource Availability Collide
February 03, 2009
Restructuring the U.S. Transport System: The Potential of High-Speed Rail
January 21, 2009
Moving to a Stable World Population
January 06, 2009
Plan B Efficiency and Conservation Measures Drop Energy Demand by 2020
December 30, 2008
Planting Trees and Managing Soils to Sequester Carbon
December 17, 2008
A Massive Market Failure
December 03, 2008
A Wartime Mobilization
November 13, 2008
Expanding Marine Protected Areas to Restore Fisheries
September 26, 2008
Mobilizing to Save Civilization: What You and I Can Do
September 10, 2008
Increasing Equality by Educating Every Child
August 27, 2008
Raising Water Productivity
August 05, 2008
Raising Energy Efficiency in a New Materials Economy - Part II
July 30, 2008
Raising Energy Efficiency in a New Materials Economy - Part I
July 09, 2008
Redesigning Urban Transport
June 04, 2008
Falling Water Tables, Falling Harvests
January 03, 2008
Plan B 3.0 – A Plan of Hope
November 27, 2007
Building New Industries and Creating New Jobs in a Plan B Economy
November 05, 2007
Ecolabeling: Voting with Our Wallets
October 02, 2007
The Nature of the New World
September 19, 2007
Learning from the Past
August 02, 2007
Farewell to "Flush and Forget"
July 24, 2007
Water Tables Falling and Rivers Running Dry
July 10, 2007
Conserving and Rebuilding Soils
June 27, 2007
Losing Soil
May 01, 2007
Designing Cities for People
April 17, 2007
Plan B Budget for Saving Civilization
April 09, 2007
Plan B Budget for Restoring the Earth
April 03, 2007
Plan B Budget for Eradicating Poverty and Stabilizing Population
March 16, 2007
Farming in the City
February 01, 2007
Subsidizing Climate Change
January 23, 2007
The Environmental Revolution
December 05, 2006
A New Materials Economy
November 30, 2006
Throwaway Economy in Trouble
September 27, 2006
Water Scarcity Crossing National Borders
September 12, 2006
The Ecology of Cities
August 03, 2006
Countries Losing War with Advancing Deserts
July 19, 2006
Rescuing a Planet Under Stress
May 23, 2006
The World After Oil Peaks
May 05, 2006
The Coming Decline of Oil
April 18, 2006
Wartime Mobilization to Save the Environment and Civilization
April 12, 2006
It's Income Tax Time for Americans: And Time for the World to Lower Income Taxes and Raise Environmental Taxes
March 01, 2006
Curbing the HIV Epidemic
February 23, 2006
The Spread of HIV in Africa: An Epidemic of Epic Proportions
January 24, 2006
Cutting Carbon Emissions
November 30, 2005
Plan B — A Plan of Hope
October 10, 2005
Entering a New World
June 14, 2005
Population, Land, and Conflict
March 22, 2005
New Protein Production Systems
January 19, 2005
Reversing China's Harvest Decline
January 05, 2005
Stabilizing Water Tables
December 14, 2004
The Soybean Factor
February 11, 2003
Restructuring the Energy Economy