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More Author Talks Population, Emissions Growth: AP

Robert Engelman, author of More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want, is quoted in the Associated Press story "Population growth contributes to emissions growth."

"...countries will begin to see that a more rapidly rising population will make it hard for them to curb emissions,” says Engelman.

In the video above, Engelman discusses More in-depth.

Obama Appoints Island Press Authors to Top Posts

President-elect Barack Obama announced he will appoint Dr. Jane Lubchenco, contributor to The Work of Nature: How the Diversity of Life Sustains Us, and Dr. John Holdren, contributor to Science Magazines's State of the Planet 2008-2009, to top science posts in his administration.

In this video, Obama talks more about his latests appointments.

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Island Press In the News

• Jan-Feb Issue | Audubon Magazine reviews Revolution on the Range

• 1/4/09 | The Washington Post reviews Where Our Food Comes From

• 12/22/08 | NYT Dot Earth: The uncertain legacy of Chico Mendes

• 12/21/08 | Treehugger.com: Jeremy Piven leaves show due to fish mercury poisoining

• 12/21/08 | The Times: EU plans to impose fish quotas on amateur sea anglers

• 12/20/08 | Science News: Review of Where Our Food Comes From

• 12/18/08 | HuffingtonPost.com: Ethanol and Water

• 12/10/08 | Nature: Back to the roots of crop farming

• 12/9/08: Podcast of Dr. Jane Hightower at the Commonwealth Club

Expert Profile: Gary Paul Nabhan

Gary Paul Nabhan is a world-renowned ethnobiologist, conservationist, and essayist. The author of Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine, he has been honored with a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship and The John Burroughs Medal for nature writing.

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Frank Ackerman Blogs about the Economy and the Environment

Now that you're unemployed, don't you feel healthier?

"Now that you're unemployed, don't you feel healthier?"

Frank Ackerman, author of Poisoned for Pennies, The Economics of Toxics and Precaution, asks that question and dispels the notion that environmental regulations are disastrous for the economy in his latest blog post at Eco-Compass.

Environmental Sourcebook and Green Building Reader

Green Building ReaderThe Green Building Reader offers excerpts on recent books to shed light into how you can support the strategies of building green. DOWNLOAD NOW.

 

The Environmental Sourcebook

The 2008-2009 Environmental Sourcebook offers the tools and solutions for policy and management that we need to preserve the natural world. Over 500 titles featured! DOWNLOAD NOW.

 

What You Can Do to Reduce Mercury Toxicity

 Choose Fish Carefully

Learn what practical steps you can take to reduce mercury toxicity and advocate for better, more accurate consumption guidelines in our Take Action section. 

Get the full story on the modern prevalence of mercury poisoning in Diagnosis: Mercury: Money, Politics and Poison by Dr. Jane M. Hightower, a renowned board certified internal medicine physician based in San Francisco, California.