Lester R. Brown’s Followers (79)

Add New
Videos

Add a comment

Lester Brown on the difficulty farmers are facing

Add a comment

Lester R. Brown

Born

in rural New Jersey, The United States

March 28, 1934

Website

http://www.earth-policy.org/About/Lester_bio.htm

Genre

Social Sciences, Politics, Outdoors & Nature

edit data

Lester Russel Brown is an American environmentalist, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C. BBC Radio commentator Peter Day calls him "one of the great pioneer environmentalists."

In the mid-1970s, Brown helped pioneer the concept of sustainable development, during a career that started with farming. As early as 1978, in his book The Twenty-Ninth Day, he was already warning of "the various dangers arising out of our manhandling of nature...by overfishing the oceans, stripping the forests, turning land into desert." In 1986, the Library of Congress requested his personal papers noting that his writings “have already strongly affe ...more

Combine Editions
Lester R. Brown’s books

Average rating: 4.01 · 3,793 ratings · 387 reviews · 119 distinct works • Similar authors

	Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization 3.93 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization 3.96 avg rating — 477 ratings — published 2008 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse 3.90 avg rating — 418 ratings — published 2011 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity 3.97 avg rating — 391 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble 3.94 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 2003 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy 3.67 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eco-Economy 3.72 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2001 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures 4.03 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet by Lester R. Brown, Linda Starke (Series Editor) 3.53 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1995 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge (The Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series) by Lester R. Brown, Gary T. Gardner, Brian Halweil 3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Lester R. Brown…

Series by Lester R. Brown

State of the World (29 books)
by

Lester R. Brown

3.94 avg rating — 476 ratings

Quotes by Lester R. Brown (?)

“Saving civilization is not a spectator sport. Each”
― Lester Russell Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

2 likes

“Shiit for the moon. Even if you miss you'll land among the stars.”
― Lester Brown

1 likes

“China has gone on a logging orgy outside its borders, often illegally, to procure logs from Indonesia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, and Siberia. And now Chinese logging firms are moving into the Amazon and Congo Basin.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

tags: amazon, china, climate-change, congo, deforestation, forestry, indonesia, logging, myanmar

0 likes

See all Lester R. Brown's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The History Book ...: KIRSTEN'S 50 BOOKS READ IN 2011	40	132	Jan 01, 2012 04:03PM
2025 Reading Chal...: Cheri 52	52	70	Dec 28, 2015 12:34PM
Book Riot's Read ...: Task #15: Read a book about climate change	82	1378	Dec 19, 2020 03:07PM

More…

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Lester to Goodreads.

Lester R. Brown’s Followers (79)

Add NewVideos

Lester R. Brown

Combine EditionsLester R. Brown’s books

Series by Lester R. Brown

Topics Mentioning This Author

Add New
Videos

Combine Editions
Lester R. Brown’s books