Category Archives: Ecological Footprint
Our NEPA Lawsuit Moves Forward
Executive Director's Corner Dear All: On August 11th, federal judge Trevor McFadden, U.S. District Court, [...]
Wooldridge Delivers the Overpopulation Message for the 21st Century – Will We Listen this Time?
As soon as the reader digs into Frosty Wooldridge’s “America’s Overpopulation Predicament: Blindsiding Future Generations,” [...]
The American Southwest: Twice the people, half the water?
Colorado River Showing reservoirs, including iconic Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, shrunk to a fraction [...]
Calif. Gov., Feds Agree on Wildfire Management Plan
Two years ago, California’s Little Hoover Commission warned that unless the state took immediate [...]
Newsom and the Internal Combustion Engine Ban
About a decade ago , as I was reading Jared Diamond’s “Collapse,” the questions most [...]
America’s West Coast is on Fire
The forests and chaparral of California, Oregon and Washington are on fire. Our Brilliant-in-Dogma governors [...]
More Americans = Less Wilderness
For decades, federal immigration laws have been a hot-button issue. Nearly 55 years ago, on [...]
Overpopulation Sparks Calif. Wildfires
California is once again in the news. As always, bad news puts the state’s latest [...]
World Population Nears 8 Billion
World Population Day, created by the United Nations “to focus attention on the urgency [...]
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day Virtually
With much of the U.S. on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, the momentous physical [...]
Practice the Five Rs to Lower U.S. Carbon Footprint
For the first time in decades, Americans living in the nation’s major urban areas have [...]
Hawaii’s Earth Day Challenge: Balance Tourism with Environmental Practices
Having just spent the better part of three months in Hawaii, I found the state [...]
We could put everyone in the world in an area the size of Texas, but they would be dead within a week
“If every member of the United States lived in an area with the population density [...]
Elon Musk Might Be Right About a Global Population Collapse, But for the Wrong Reason
For some time, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been using his ample platform to sound [...]
What is the Greatest Threat to Endangered Species? Hint: It’s Not Trump’s New Rules
The Trump administration is about to implement new rules that it claims will “modernize” and [...]
World Population Day 2019
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IFSPP @ EarthX 2019
As in prior years, IFSPP had the opportunity to participate in EarthX 2019, in Dallas, [...]
Earth Day 2019: Since Neil Armstrong Walked on the Moon Population Doubled
Fifty years ago, in 1969 when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk [...]
We Are Scheduled to Attend EarthX in Dallas
DALLAS (April 21, 2019) – Increasing awareness of damage done to the environment by human [...]
The Green New Deal – Line By Line
Steven Lamb and Kevin Lynn separate fact from fiction with regard to House Resolution 109 [...]
Overpopulation Looming Planetary Disaster Outranks All Other Issues
Readers of my work may recall a previous OP ED in June, in which I [...]
Commit to Sustainability For Earth Overshoot Day
Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used more from nature than our [...]
Earth Overshoot Day Arriving Faster Every Year
Humanity is using more resources per year than ever, and it’s getting to the point [...]
The US Needs To Do Its Part For World Population Day
July 11th is observed by the United Nations as World Population Day. Every year the world’s [...]
Observing Our Impact This World Population Day
July 11th is recognized as UN World Population Day. Beginning in 1989, a day to focus [...]
Fracking is a Waste of Money and Nature
As we acknowledge World Environment Day and World Oceans Day this week – days to recognize the [...]
For World Environment Day, We Need to Act on Plastic
June 5th is World Environment Day, and later this week on June 8th is World Oceans Day, [...]
Why Do We Continue To Ignore Solutions To Planetary Crises?
Talking past each other as the planet gets more and more uninhabitable will likely not [...]
Fracking Protests Hit Pennsylvania Capital
On Friday, April 13, more than one hundred protesters from across the state, even some [...]