Executive Director's Corner Dear All: On August 11th, federal judge Trevor McFadden, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia ruled that a lawsuit brought forth by the Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Reform (MCIR) against three federal agencies can ...

As soon as the reader digs into Frosty Wooldridge’s “America’s Overpopulation Predicament: Blindsiding Future Generations,” s/he is hit with a staggering amount of stats on issues that, unless one lives in media isolation, should be ...

Colorado River Showing reservoirs, including iconic Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, shrunk to a fraction of their intended size, national news media is reporting that the American Southwest is in the worst 20-year drought in 1,200 ...

  Two years ago, California’s Little Hoover Commission warned that unless the state took immediate streps to limit wildfire probabilities, death and destruction were a near-certainty. The Little Hoover Commission, created in 1962, is an independent ...

About a decade ago , as I was reading Jared Diamond’s “Collapse,” the questions most prominent in my mind were: How did entire societies of human beings continue over-consuming until they died? Why did a ...

The forests and chaparral of California, Oregon and Washington are on fire. Our Brilliant-in-Dogma governors have declared this is due to Global Warming. It isn’t. It’s due to bad policy. It used to be that state ...

For decades, federal immigration laws have been a hot-button issue. Nearly 55 years ago, on October 3, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Although few could have imagined it at ...

California is once again in the news. As always, bad news puts the state’s latest crisis above the daily newspaper’s fold. Instead of stories about homelessness throughout the state, particularly acute in San Francisco and ...

  World Population Day, created by the United Nations “to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues,” came and passed this month. The top news results in a quick Google search on the ...

With much of the U.S. on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, the momentous physical celebration planned to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day and the start of the national movement to promote environmental ...

For the first time in decades, Americans living in the nation’s major urban areas have a sense of what less populated metropolises could be like. Coronavirus has led to nationwide stay-at-home orders which in turn ...

Having just spent the better part of three months in Hawaii, I found the state doing what it can to encourage environmentally sound practices. There are numerous organizations working to protect native plants, animals, ecosystems ...

“If every member of the United States lived in an area with the population density of Brooklyn, New York, all 327 million of us could fit into New Hampshire,” wrote Jennifer Wright in a recent ...

For some time, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been using his ample platform to sound off about population: not the world’s continuing, disastrous human population boom, but what he foresees as an impending population collapse. At ...

The Trump administration is about to implement new rules that it claims will “modernize” and “improve” the Endangered Species Act (ESA). All too predictably, certain industries in Trump’s favor approve of this imminent overhaul, while ...

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As in prior years, IFSPP had the opportunity to participate in EarthX 2019, in Dallas, TX. Attendance at our booth was high and the staff was busy answer questions from wanting to learn more about ...

Fifty years ago, in 1969 when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon, the world’s population was 3.6 billion; in 2019, it’s 7.7 billion. A half a century ago, the ...

DALLAS (April 21, 2019) – Increasing awareness of damage done to the environment by human impact in the 20th century, spurred by works such as Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” in 1962 and Paul and Anne ...

Steven Lamb and Kevin Lynn separate fact from fiction with regard to House Resolution 109 – The New Green Deal

Readers of my work may recall a previous OP ED in June, in which I repeated my concern about overpopulation as the root cause of disasters now pending as closer to apocalypse for our planet ...

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used more from nature than our planet can renew in the entire year. We are using 1.7 Earths. We use more ecological resources and services than nature ...

Humanity is using more resources per year than ever, and it’s getting to the point where the Earth can barely keep up. Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services ...

July 11th is observed by the United Nations as World Population Day. Every year the world’s population increases by approximately 83 million, and even generous estimates expect we will reach 8.6 billion by 2030, and 9.8 ...

July 11th is recognized as UN World Population Day. Beginning in 1989, a day to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues. As former Sierra Club Executive Director David Brower once said, “You ...

As we acknowledge World Environment Day and World Oceans Day this week – days to recognize the human impact on our environment and discuss the best ways to help protect it – and in Pennsylvania, many are using ...

June 5th is World Environment Day, and later this week on June 8th is World Oceans Day, two days that share a common theme this year: plastic pollution and waste. Think about how much plastic you encounter in ...

Talking past each other as the planet gets more and more uninhabitable will likely not be recognized by William McGurn until the rising waters in NYC come lapping at his office door. His April 30, ...

On Friday, April 13, more than one hundred protesters from across the state, even some from Maryland and Virginia, came to the steps of Harrisburg’s Capitol Building to demand action from Governor Tom Wolf. The organizers ...

Steven Lamb and Kevin Lynn separate fact from fiction with regard to House Resolution 109 – The New Green Deal

Readers of my work may recall a previous OP ED in June, in which I repeated my concern about overpopulation as the root cause of disasters now pending as closer to apocalypse for our planet than ever before. You can refresh your memories here. We have so effectively chronicled the adverse effects of powerful monotheistic ...

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used more from nature than our planet can renew in the entire year. We are using 1.7 Earths. We use more ecological resources and services than nature can regenerate due to overfishing, overharvesting forests, and emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than ecosystems can absorb. This video ...

Humanity is using more resources per year than ever, and it’s getting to the point where the Earth can barely keep up. Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can produce in that year. It is a date calculated by the Global ...

July 11th is observed by the United Nations as World Population Day. Every year the world’s population increases by approximately 83 million, and even generous estimates expect we will reach 8.6 billion by 2030, and 9.8 billion by 2050. This year’s theme is “Family Planning is a Human Right.” The United Nations, through the UN Populations Fund, ...

July 11th is recognized as UN World Population Day. Beginning in 1989, a day to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues. As former Sierra Club Executive Director David Brower once said, “You don’t have a conservation policy, unless you have a population policy.” It is more clear than ever that we must ...

As we acknowledge World Environment Day and World Oceans Day this week – days to recognize the human impact on our environment and discuss the best ways to help protect it – and in Pennsylvania, many are using the week to recognize the impact of fracking. A recent article in The Wall Street Journal, “Oil Is Above $70, but ...

June 5th is World Environment Day, and later this week on June 8th is World Oceans Day, two days that share a common theme this year: plastic pollution and waste. Think about how much plastic you encounter in a single day. It’s almost unfathomable: over a million plastic bottles are bought in the world each minute. Once these ...

Talking past each other as the planet gets more and more uninhabitable will likely not be recognized by William McGurn until the rising waters in NYC come lapping at his office door. His April 30, 2018 opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled “The Population Bomb Was a Dud—Paul Ehrlich got it wrong because ...

On Friday, April 13, more than one hundred protesters from across the state, even some from Maryland and Virginia, came to the steps of Harrisburg’s Capitol Building to demand action from Governor Tom Wolf. The organizers presented a petition with more 700 signatures to the governor’s office to ban fracking and pipeline construction across the state. Tim ...

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has been called the Magna Carta of our nation’s environmental laws. Passed in 1969, Congress designed NEPA to provide for environmentally informed decision-making and public outreach on the part of federal agencies. NEPA requires that all the consequences and potential environmental problems of an agency’s actions must be carefully ...

In a recent court case in Boston, more than a dozen protesters were found “not responsible” after a judge found their actions to stop climate change a “legal necessity.” The protesters were fighting against the installation of a gas pipeline in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, by jumping into the holes dug for construction and refusing to leave. ...

For over three years the citizens of Lancaster County have been fighting the construction of a natural gas pipeline that will literally cut through the entirety of the county.  The purpose of the pipeline will be to transport fracked gas pulled from the fields in northern Pennsylvania and ship it to LNG terminals in Philadelphia ...

In the throes of a devastating drought, a city the size of Los Angeles is in grave danger of running out of water. Cape Town, South Africa, a city of over 4 million people, has been suffering from a drought since 2015, and residents could be completely cut off from running water as early as June ...

  Friday, February 2nd is World Wetlands Day, in commemoration of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on February 2, 1971 in Ramsar, Iran. It delves into likely the most overlooked environment on earth, the wetlands. Our planet’s wetlands are in dire need of protection against over development. Loss of these environments leads to the loss of vital ...

  Join us for a riveting podcast where we discuss a broad range of topics from immigration, the economy, US Hegemony, class warfare, and JMG’s take on the three most important issues to arise between 2018 and 2020. John Michael Greer is a widely read author and blogger whose work focuses on the overlaps between ecology, spirituality, ...

For the longest time, Bitcoin, the Internet’s largest cryptocurrency, slowly puttered along as essentially a libertarian thought experiment. That is, “why rely on the American Dollar, which is backed by a federal reserve, when a community can collectively create a separate currency?” Years ago, Bitcoin users were lucky to purchase pizza with their independent coin, ...

On November 16, TransCanada, the owners of the Keystone Pipeline, reported that a portion of the line had ruptured, spilling over 210,000 gallons of oil near the small town of Amherst in South Dakota. That currently ties it for the dubious record of the biggest oil spill of 2017 in the United States. The spill ...

On May 16, 2017, twenty-three brave souls refused to leave the right of way forced by a corrupt judiciary that would allow the construction of the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline to begin. For this, they were arrested. This video is a homage to those twenty-three and for all those who have and will continue to follow. ...

I was born the fifth generation of my family in Southern California sixty years ago. Sometimes it’s difficult to believe, but in the early years of my parent’s life and of my own, Southern California was a paradise. Wages were high, housing was inexpensive. Employment at every level, from Janitor on up, was easy to ...