Tag: Population Growth - Page 2
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By 2050 We're All Likely To Be Using Fewer Resources, Whether We Like It Or Not
The latest UN report on sustainable development reads like the TreeHugger archive, in terms of sustainable development solutions.
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10 Historical Figures You Had No Idea Were Environmentalists
From Genghis Khan's reforestation to King Edward I's 14th century ban of coal mining, these famous people were dedicated to TreeHugger ethics --- even if they didn't know it.
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This Is What 7 Billion Looks Like (Infographic)
This great infographic by Fathom, appropriately title Dencity, shows us. Larger dark circles show fewer people while brighter circles have a denser population. You can get the infographic for just $30 as an educational tool.
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The Importance of Population in Protecting the Planet
Population issues and excess consumption are central to the environmental challenges our planet faces.
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The Week in Pictures: A Gorgeous Green Home Stirs Controversy, Toilet Made from Computer Parts and More
The best images on Treehugger this week include a beautiful green building raising conservation issues, a toilet redefining 'flushing your cache', and more.
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You Are Now One of 7 Billion People on Planet Earth
Live accordingly.
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What Will Happen When the World's Population Hits 7 Billion?
The number of people in the world is expected to reach 7 billion by the end of October 2011. Our rate of
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Ending Population Growth: Why Family Planning Is Key To A Sustainable Future
The widespread assumption that world population, now at 6.9 billion, will inevitably grow to 9 billion by midcentury is wrong. The equally
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Do Large Cities Reverse Climate Change, Population Explosion?
Sarah Barmak writes in Corporate Knights, "the Magazine for Clean Capitalism", about the Metabolic Metropolis. She reiterates the argument we have discussed before, that Cities burn less energy per capita
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Population Growth and Ecological Footprint - It's About Equity, Environment & Preventing Collapse
photo: Franz Drewniak/Creative Commons
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Global Population Could Hit 14 Billion By 2100 Without Greater Effort to Slow It: UN
Conventional wisdom in the environmental movement is that global human population growth will plateau somewhere around 9 billion people, sometime around the middle of this century (between 2050-2070 or so). Remember
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Population Growth, Climate Change Degrade African Soil, Threaten Millions With Starvation: Worldwatch
It's always good to get some independent confirmation you're heading in the right direction: Last week Worldwatch Institute released the 2011 State of the World Report, focusing on Innovations that Nourish
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Humans Now Consuming 25% of All Plant Life Growing Each Year
Plenty of research on both both personal and national ecological footprints has shown that we are using Earth's resources at unsustainable rates, that we are using them up faster than they can be regenerated. Now, some new work from NASA
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Family Planning As Important For Fighting Climate Change As Clean Technology: Worldwatch
Population growth is one of the touchiest issues out there. It's really easy for people to leap to paranoia about government control of who can and cannot have children and no amount of qualification about how that's
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Why Recalculating Health Care Costs For Our Aging Populations is a Green Issue
While it might not seem at first that a new study, being highlighted by BBC News, on the overestimation of how much health care costs for our aging
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Connecting the Dots: Population Growth, Consumerism & Biodiversity Loss Tangled Together
A number of news items in the past two days worth connecting: A new report on the financial cost of biodiversity loss, tiger populations declining 97% in the past 20 years, and Fred
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Growing Consumer Consumption a Bigger Problem Than Growing Population: Fred Pearce
We've covered this one on a number of occasions but with World Population Day just passed, it's worth bring up again: In a new op-ed published at Grist and elsewhere, Fred Pearce argues that all the focus on population
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Staple Food Prices to Rise Up to 45% Over Next Decade, UN FAO Warns
The new Agricultural Outlook 2010-2019 report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has been released, warning that the price for many staple food products is projected to rise between 15-45%,
