Thanks to Bob Fireovid for the email and document below.
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Hi, Bill.

I really enjoy your e-mail updates and news items. Thank you so much for
sending them.

Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population (ASAP), a well organized
group in Charlottesville, VA, is asking their County Board of Supervisors
to help underwrite a study that would recommend an optimal population size
for their community (see attached).

To my knowledge, this is the first ever such effort anywhere; and so it’s
very important to help these folks do this study well. In my humble
opinion, all advocates for a sustainable U.S. population need to have a
success to build on; and this ASAP effort may be our best shot at such. In
other words, we will all benefit by helping ASAP as best we can.

Please help us ask population control leaders to help link ASAP with
resources that can help them do this study. Thank you very much.

- Bob

MEMO (final) to BOS re OSPSinitiative 3-15-07 (Word doc., 185 KB)

Thanks to Dave Foreman for this article.

Retreat on Population (PDF, 185 KB)

Thanks to David Poindexter for this letter to the Sierra Club regarding an article by Paul Raucher.

Sierra Club Letter to Editor by David Poindexter

Thanks to Andrew Ferguson for these articles, which complement his piece about the limits of wind power in the United States with a look at wind power and photovoltaics in the UK.

25 GW UK Wind Study (Word doc., 41 KB)

Choosing Uncontrollables )Word doc., 29 KB)

The email below is from Global Health Council

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Hello Everyone,

I’d like to introduce you to a new Council project for communicating global health messages called Global Health TV — www.globalhealthtv.com. This project is a partnership between the Council and HBL Media, a London-based communications firm, to deliver short video content on global health issues, from news on breakthroughs, to policy issues to voices from the developing world. As you will see on the website there are three channels – news, conference TV and articles. The news section includes news (that seems obvious) and voices from the field. The Conference TV section is with experts at, you guessed it, global health conferences. Right now the Council’s conference is up there, but other organizations hosting conferences on global health issues also will be able to take advantage of this part of the site. Articles is a section provided to help link viewers to more in-depth content on the multitude of global health issues.

The site is live, but we are tweaking it—so it is a work in progress. We’re very excited about this development and hope it will become a strong venue for sharing global health messages. One way you, as communicators of member organizations, can be involved is to volunteer your organization as an expert resource on particular global health issues. Writers generating new global health content for the articles section of the site will need to know who to go to for the facts and it could be your organization. If you would like us to list your organization as an expert resource, please follow the format below and email back to me. Listing your organization as an expert resource doesn’t guarantee that you will be included in any particular articles, but you may be contacted by the writers for information. If unique information you provided is used, your organization will receive attribution. We’ll also let you know if there are opportunities for your organization’s experts to be included in video footage we’re shooting on global health news items.

REMEMBER not to reply to this email because it will go out to the whole group. Please reply to me, individually. Also, do let me know if you have other questions about Global Health TV.

Thanks,
Laura Barnitz

Director of Policy Communications
Global Health Council
1111 19th St., NW, Ste. 1120
Washington, DC 20036

202-833-5900, x3204
Fax: 202-833-0075

www.globalhealth.org

Thanks to Alan Kuper for this article.

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Scientists debate how much population the world can sustain
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Mike Lafferty THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

The streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, teemed with people in 1994. Thirteen years later, Bangladesh has a population of nearly 150 million people.

In the days of sailing ships, sailors used to leave goats on islands as they passed to ensure fresh meat on return trips. It worked too well. The animals bred faster than the sailors could eat them, and from the Channel Islands off California to the Seychelles in Indian Ocean, goats ate all the vegetation and began to starve. The goats also screwed up the environment so that native species couldn’t survive, either,” said John Wenzel, director the Ohio State University Museum of Biological Diversity. For example, the goats stripped away plants’ low-growing leaves so that tortoises couldn’t find enough to eat.

For full article, vist:

http://www.dispatch.com/dispatch/contentbe/dispatch/2007/02/13/20070213-D6-00.html

Greetings from Salt Lake City, where I am speaking at the Rotary International Convention. – Bill Ryerson.

Gender and Climate Change
The UN is formally committed to gender mainstreaming within all United Nations policies and programmes.

In all societies, in all parts of the world, gender equality is not yet realized. Men and women have different roles, responsibilities and decision making powers. This has consequences for the Climate Change process which make it important to integrate gender sensitivity into all mechanisms, policies and measures, and tools and guidelines within the climate debate. This message has been communicated by different individuals and organisations during the past COPs and in several publications.

For full article, visit:

http://www.gencc.interconnection.org/

This Web site aims to provide a platform for people interested in the issue of gender and climate change and to make the issue more accessible to everyone by providing a discussion list, publications, links and other useful information regarding the topic.

The UN is formally committed to gender mainstreaming within all United Nations policies and programmes. In all societies, in all parts of the world, gender equality is not yet realized. Men and women have different roles, responsibilities and decision making powers. This has consequences for the Climate Change process which make it important to integrate gender sensitivity into all mechanisms, policies and measures, and tools and guidelines within the climate debate.

This message has been communicated by different individuals and organisations during the past COPs and in several publications. This website aims to provide a platform for people interested in the issue of gender and climate change and to make the issue more accessible to everyone by providing a discussion list, publications, links and other useful information regarding the topic.

For full article, visit:

http://www.gencc.interconnection.org/

Below is a transcript of an interview I did with Chris Springman’s LIFE, LOVE & HEALTH radio program, which plays on American forces radio, Voice of America and Wal-Mart radio. The actual broadcast will occur in several weeks. The website is www.lifeloveandhealth.com

Chris Springman Radio Interview with Bill Ryerson (Word doc. 38 KB)

Below is an interresting article.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9068/