sustainable development

Shannon Roberts | 19 September 2016 | FAMILY EDGE |  

tags: food distribution, over-population, sustainable development

Surprising findings about humanity’s environmental footprint

Marcus Roberts | 31 August 2016 | FAMILY EDGE |  

tags: economic growth, environmental damage, population growth, sustainable development

Two Days, One Night

Shannon Roberts | 09 May 2016 | FAMILY EDGE |  

tags: capitalism, demography, environmentalism, movies, sustainable development

On show at Milan Expo: sustenance and sustainability

Vincenzina Santoro | 24 July 2015 | FEATURES |  

tags: food security, sustainable development, United Nations

EXPO 2015 rises to the challenge of feeding the world's people.

Sustainable development - without the family?

Ignacio Socias | 28 November 2013 | FEATURES |  

tags: family policy, International Year of the Family 2014, sustainable development

Will the 2014 UN Year of the Family bring recognition to the basic building block of society?

A New UN Report on our Impending Overpopulation

Marcus Roberts | 01 February 2012 | FAMILY EDGE |  

tags: Norman Borlaug, population growth, poverty, sustainable development, United Nations

Another UN report that seems heavy on headline grabbing but light on concrete proposals.

Confessions of a Greenpeace dropout

Patrick Moore | 03 February 2011 | FEATURES |  

tags: environmentalism, poverty, sustainable development

A new book tells how a founding member of the radical group became a sensible environmentalist.

40 years later, was “The Population Bomb” a damp squib?

Michael Cook | 05 August 2009 | FAMILY EDGE |  

tags: over-population, Paul Ehrlich, population, sustainable development

Forty years after the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s influential book The Population Bomb, a new scholarly, peer-reviewed magazine, the Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development, thinks that it is time to take stock. And in a fascinating series of articles, it contributors demolish Ehrlich’s population pessimism. This is essential reading – and it is freely available. Here are a few highlights.

Too many at the dining table?

Dermot Grenham | 05 April 2009 | FAMILY EDGE |  

tags: sustainable development

Bad ideas never die; they become government reports

Michael Cook | 31 March 2009 | FAMILY EDGE |  

tags: over-population, sustainable development