The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere: Responding to the human predicament. Reducing the threat of a shattering collapse of civilization.
Should this tree have the same rights as you?
Around the world, a movement is gaining momentum that grants legal rights to natural phenomena, including rivers, […]
Ecological economics for humanity’s plague phase
The human enterprise is in potentially disastrous ‘overshoot’, exploiting the ecosphere beyond ecosystems’ regenerative capacity and filling […]
Introducing The Overpopulation Project Video Series # 1: The Usefulness of Foreign Aid
The Overpopulation Project is proud to present the first video in our four-part interview mini-series, an interview […]
As Systems Collapse, People Rise: Seven Faces of an Emerging Global Movement
There is a new global movement awakening across the planet. The Fridays For Future (FFF) movement inspired […]
Millions of women still don’t have access to contraceptives – report
The number of women accessing family planning services is increasing, but population growth is hampering efforts to […]
Population Density Stress Is Killing Us Now!
Gregg MiklashekYou may not want to hear it, and when I started medical practice 46 years ago, I […]
Overpopulation In America – And Its Cures
Anne H. Ehrlich, Paul R. EhrlichIt is more important now than ever to talk about population. What will we do if we […]
Ecofeminism to Escape Collapse
Feminism has gained a very strong following in Spain in recent years, as the massive feminist demonstrations […]
Becoming part of the solution: Art and science as a pathway to eco citizenry
Michele GuieuThe necessity to foster a lasting interest and care for the natural world is a priority for […]
What Ballooning Carbon Emissions Will Do to Trees
Many forecasts for climate change assume that tropical forests will continue to soak up carbon dioxide as […]
Population growth will make it harder to meet EU climate goals, while stable or declining populations will help cut greenhouse gas emissions in the EU
In the following exercise, we demonstrate how different migration and fertility-influencing policies can lead to large differences […]
Civilisational Collapse Has a Bright Past – But a Dark Future
Is the collapse of a civilisation necessarily calamitous? The failure of the Egyptian Old Kingdom towards the […]
Protecting Natural Systems in an Era of Emerging Planetary Consciousness – A Stanford MAHB Dialogue with Randy Hayes
Geoffrey HollandI pledge allegiance to the Earth To its mountains, rivers, soil, and sky One planet irreplaceable To […]
The Most Powerful Mindfulness Is Future-Focused
Use mental time travel to navigate your destiny. Mindfulness—practiced by concentrating deeply on every sensation in the […]
Raising an Ecowarrior: The Early Childhood Years
Erik AssadourianNearly four years ago I wrote in Adbusters about how I had been raising my son to […]
IPCC special report: Climate Change and Land
An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse […]
What It’s Like Living in One of the Hottest Cities on Earth—Where It May Soon Be Uninhabitable
It’s just after 7 in the morning in the Pakistani city of Jacobabad, and donkey-cart driver Ahsan […]
Social policy starts at home
By designing a policy package around the needs of contemporary families, political leaders can promote women’s rights, […]
The end times are here, and I am at Target
It’s a theory of mine that life in most societies involves being keenly aware that the end […]
Building a Wellbeing Economy
Katherine TrebeckThis article was originally published in Open Democracy on June 11, 2019. Meeting the challenges of the […]
Land use policy key to reining in global warming, U.N. report warns
Slashing greenhouse gas emissions from cars and power plants won’t be enough to avoid the worst effects […]
The Methane Gun
Julian CribbIn all the sound and fury over climate change, too little public and media attention has been […]
Climate Change Is Making Hawaii’s Beaches More Dangerous
Climate change is contributing to a litany of conditions that can make swimming, snorkeling and surfing more […]
Climate change is sapping nutrients from our food — and it could become a global crisis
Feeding a planet inhabited by 10 billion people by mid-century — already a daunting task — is […]