Earth Policy Institute
| Founded | 2001 |
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| Founder | Lester R. Brown |
| Type | Environmental Research |
| Focus | Environmentalism |
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Key people
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Reah Janise Kauffman, Vice President Janet Larsen, Director of Research |
| Slogan | Dedicated to planning a sustainable future as well as providing a roadmap of how to get from here to there. |
| Mission | (1)To provide a global plan (Plan B) for moving the world onto an environmentally and economically sustainable path, (2) to provide examples demonstrating how the plan would work, and (3) to keep the media, policymakers, academics, environmentalists, and other decision-makers focused on the process of building a Plan B economy. |
| Website | www.earth-policy.org |
Earth Policy Institute is an independent non-profit environmental organization based in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It was founded by Lester R. Brown in 2001 and functions as an environmental think tank, providing research and analysis on environmental indicators and making policy and lifestyle recommendations aimed at promoting environmental and economic sustainability.
Cited by environmental advocates, as well as policymakers and journalists alike, the Institute is a nonprofit that provides articles, data resources, and select free downloads of their books on their website.
In June 2015, the Institute announced that, with Brown's retirement, it would close its doors at the end of the month.
The Earth Policy Institute functions as a think-tank, providing policy research and recommendations on sustainable development and living, as well as on environmental issues.
EPI’s goals are (1) to provide a global plan for moving the world onto an environmentally and economically sustainable path, (2) to provide examples demonstrating how the plan would work, and (3) to keep the media, policymakers, academics, environmentalists, and other decision-makers focused on the process of building a Plan B economy.
The Institute sends out articles called Updates, Eco-Economy Indicators, Book Bytes, Data Highlights, and Press Releases to the media and the general public on a free low-volume e-mail listserv and are posted on its website along with supporting data and sources for additional information.
Publications are released in several languages. International publishers for books can be found on the website, as well as links to other organizations who publish the translations of articles.
The Institute has released the following books:
Earth Policy Institute states that Plan B Updates are original, four-page analyses of environmental issues ranging from worldwide advances in renewable energy to deaths from heat waves to new flows of environmental refugees.
Earth Policy Institute states that eco-Economy Indicators consist of the 12 trends EPI uses to measure progress toward building a Plan B world. The 12 trends are Population, Global Economy, Grain Harvest, Fish Catch, Forest Cover, Water Resources, Carbon Emissions, Global Temperature, Ice Melting, Wind Power, Bicycle Production,Solar Power.
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