<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style>Cambridge Forum<br> 3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138<br>617-495-2727<br>email: director@cambridgeforum.org<br>cambridgeforum.org<br><br>Release February 1, 2011<br><br><br><br>WORLD ON THE EDGE: Preventing Environmental and Economic Collapse<br><br>On Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 7 p.m. Cambridge Forum hosts Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, a D.C. research organization, discussing his new book, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse. <br><br>For two decades, Lester Brown has been assessing the state of planet’s well being. How does he analyze the current status of the Earth’s ecosystems? Dramatic events have already altered the status quo for populations across the globe. Given the loss of wheat, due to the 2010 record summer heat wave in Russia, will future generations of farmers be able to feed 8 billion people? What solutions does Brown propose to restore the Earth’s health?<br><br>Author of 20 major books alerting the public to possible environmental problems, Lester Brown is widely perceived as the nation’s leading environmental writer. E.O. Wilson, in his supporting note on the book cover writes: “If the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize has been extended to a third recipient, the logical candidate would have been Lester Brown.” Brown has received numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the U.N. Environment Prize, Japan’s Blue Planet Prize and twenty-five honorary degrees. <br><br>Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited CDs are available to the public by contacting 617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in their entirety on demand by visiting our website at cambridgeforum.org and clicking on the Forum Network at WGBH.</body><pre>
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