I (environmental impact) = P (population size) x A (affluence or consumption) x T (technology used)
“Think Globally and Act Locally” – Including When It Comes to Population!
All of the organizations below express on their web site
some concern about population and the environment. Some
are more concerned about global population and some more
about U.S. population but all are concerned.
Vermont Based
Population Media Center (international but based in Shelburne)
- http:// www.populationmedia.org
Smart Growth Vermont - http://www.smartgrowthvermont.org/learn/causes
Sustainability Institute (international but based in Hartland) – http://www.sustainabilityinstitute.org
Vermont Center for Eco Studies - http://www.vtecostudies.org/welcome.html
*Vermont Earth Institute – http://www.vtearthinstitute.org
*Vermont Environmental Consortium - http://www.vecgreenvalley.org/grapevine_28.htm
*Vermont Peak Oil Network - http://www.vtpeakoil.net/vtresources.html#sustain
*Vermont Reptile and Amphibian Atlas - http://community.middlebury.edu/~herpatlas
*Vermont River Conservancy - http://www.vermontriverconservancy.org/htdocs/riparian.html
Vermonters for a Sustainable Population - http://www.vspop.org
New England Region
*Forest
Ecology Network – http://www.forestecologynetwork.org/forests%20%26%20human%20population.html
New England Coalition for
a Sustainable Population - http://www.necsp.org
Other Organizations
Advocates for
a Sustainable Albemarle Population - http://www.stopgrowthasap.org/
Audubon
(Vermont chapter office in Huntington) – http://www.audubon.org/campaign/population_habitat/
Blue Planet United
- http://www.blueplanetunited.org/
Californians for
Population Stabilizations - http://www.capsweb.org/index.php
Carry Capacity Network – http://www.carryingcpacity.org
Center for the Advancement
of a Steady State Economy – http://www.steadystate.org
Center
for Biological Diversity - http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/index.html
Children
and Nature Network - http://www.cnaturenet.org/news/detail/
Colcom Foundation - http://www.colcomfdn.org/
Center for the Environment
and Population - http://www.cepnet.org
Comprehensive
U.S. Sustainable Population - http://www.uscongress-enviroscore.org/cuspframes.html
Conservation
International - http://web.conservation.org/xp/CIWEB/programs/population/
Controlling Growth
in our Communities – http://www.conttrolgrowth.org
Council on Global
Issues - http://www.c-g-i.info/who.html
Diversity Alliance
for a Sustainable America - http://www.diversityalliance.org/
Ecological
Buddhism - http://www.ecobuddhism.org/index.php
E Magazine - http://www.emagazine.com/
Earth Policy Institute
- http://www.earth-policy.org/
Environmental
Defense Fund - http://www.edf.org/article.cfm?contentid=2503
Floridians for a Sustainable
Population - http://www.flsuspop.org/
Food and Agricultural Organization
of the United Nations - http://www.fao.org
Foundation for Deep
Ecology –http:// www.deepecology.org/
Gaia Preservation Coalition
- http://www.gaiapc.ca/
Global Footprint
Network - http://www.footprintnetwork.org/
Global
Population Education - http://www.globalpopulationeducation.com/
His Holiness
the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet - http://www.dalailama.com/page.68.htm/
Horizon
Solutions - http://www.solutions-site.org/artman/publish/
Izaak Walton
League - http://www.iwla.org/index.php?id=11
Lovearth Network – http://www.sustainability.net
National Center for Science
and the Environment – http://www.nnsconline.org
National Wildlife
Federation (regional office in Montpelier) - http://www.nwf.org/population/
Negative Population Growth – http://www.npg.org
NumbersUSA - http://www.numbersusa.com
Optimum Population
Trust – http://www.optimumpopulation.org
PCI Media
Impact - http://www.population.org/index.shtml
People and the
Planet - http://www.peopleandplanet.net/
Pew
Charitable Trusts - http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_category.aspx?ID=110
Planned
Parenthood - http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ppcw/earth-day.htm
Population Action
International – http://www.populationaction.org/
Population
and Sustainability Network - http://www.populationandsustainability.org/index.php
Population
Connection – http://www.populationconnection.org/
Population Council – http://www.popcouncil.org/
Population Environmental
Balance – http://www.balance.org/
Population-Environment
Research Network - http://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/index.jsp
Population Press
- http://www.populationpress.org/
Population Reference Bureau – http://www.prb.org
Population Resource Center
- http://www.prcdc.org/
Religious
Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics – http://www.religiousconsultation.org/
Rewilding Institute -
http://www.rewilding.org/
Rotary International - http://www.rifpd.org/
Sierra
Club (Vermont chapter is hiring a part time person to work
out of his or her home, probably in Chittenden County) -
http://www.sierraclub.org/international/
Sierrans for U.S. Population
Stabilization - http://www.susps.org/
Sprawl City - http://www.sprawlcity.org/
The Bulletin
Online Global Security News and Analysis - http://www.thebulletin.org/search.html
Think Population – http://www.thinkpopulation.org/
Union
of Concerned Scientists Sound Science Initiative - http://www.ucsusa.org/ssi/biodiversity/population-and-environment-linkages.html
United
Nations Population Fund - http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2007/english/introduction.html
Wallace Global
Fund - http://www.wgf.org/index.html
Weeden
Foundation - http://www.cals.wisc.edu/research/Funding/abstracts/weeden.html
Wildlife
Conservation Society - http://www.wcs.org/sw-our_mission
Woods Hole
Research Center
- http://www.whrc.org/new_england/index.htm
Woods Hole
Research Center - http://www.whrc.org/new_england/index.htm
World
Clock - http://www.chippynews.com/worldclock.htm
World
Population Awareness - http://www.population-awareness.org/
World
Population Balance - http://www.worldpopulationbalance.org/
World Watch Institute
- http://www.worldwatch.org/
World Wildlife Federation – http://www.panda.org/
If your favorite organization that has some connection
to our earth, be it environmental, spiritual or otherwise,
does not make the connection between the health of the
earth ecosystems and human population size and growth
on its web site you might want to ask the executive director
or a board member why not.
Individual environmental writers, move makers, activists
and others
Timothy S. Bennett, the
movie What a Way to Go: Life at the End of an Empire – http://whatawaytogomovie.com/
Dell Erickson, Sustainable
Population Levels: Using Footprint Data –
http://www.mnforsustain.org/erickson_d_determining_sustainable_population_levels.htm/
John Feeny, Ph.d.
blog site - http://growthmadness.org/
Jeanie Fitchen, folksinger, Changes
in the Wind/No More on her Roads CD – http://www.jfitchen.com/
Edward C. Hartman, the
book The Population Fix: Breaking America’s
Addiction to Population Growth - http://www.thepopulaltionfix.com/
Thomas Hartmann, the
book The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight – http://www.thomhartmann.com/deathof.shtml/
Al Kuper, Comprehensive
U.S. Sustainable Population - http://www.uscongress-enviroscore.org/
Bill McKibben, the
book Maybe One: The Case for Smaller Families -
http://www.billmckibben.com/
Peter Russell, the
book From Science to God – http://www.peterrussell.dreamhosters.com/Odds/WorldClock.php/
James Gustave Speth, the
book Red Sky as Morning - http://www.redskyatmorning.com
Dan Quinn, the book The Story of B -http://ishmael.org/Origins/Story_of_B/
Trinifar blog site - http://trinifar.wordpress.com/
Alan Weisman, the book The World Without Us - http://www.worldwithoutus.com/about_author.html
Many polls also show that the U.S. public in general is also
concerned about population size.
Here is just one example:
Informed that U.S. population is projected to grow to 420
million by 2050, fifty-seven percent of respondents believed
that the present U.S. population of 300 million or less would
be best for the country in the long run.
Roper ASW Poll conducted for Negative Population Growth (NPG),
April 14-16, 2006
*Examples of state/regional organizations that have given
a separate page to population.