"All books by Lester R. Brown"
World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse
Paperback, 2011
In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.
Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
Paperback, 2012
Food is the new oil. Land is the new gold.
Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Substantially Revised, Paperback, 2009
“[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington Post
The Twenty-Ninth Day: Accommodating Human Needs and Numbers to the Earth's Resources
Paperback, 1978
A lily pond, so the French riddle goes, contains a single leaf. Each day the number of leaves doubles—two leaves the second day, four the third, eight the fourth, and so on. Question: If the pond...
Eco-Economy
Paperback, 2001
"One of the world's most influential thinkers."—Washington Post
Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures
Paperback, 2005
How human demands are outstripping the earth's capacities—and what we need to do about it.
World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse
Hardback, 2011
In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.
Breaking New Ground: A Personal History
Hardback, 2013
An inspirational memoir tracing Lester Brown’s life from a small-farm childhood to leadership as a global environmental activist.In the Human Interest: A Strategy to Stabilize World Population
Paperback, 1974
Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Substantially Revised, E Book, 2009
“[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington Post