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Created: Feb 23, 2008
Updated: Nov 26, 2009
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MISSION
The Earth Policy Institute (EPI), founded in 2001, is dedicated to saving civilization. It works to accomplish this mission by providing a roadmap of how to get from our current Plan A (business as usual) economy that is disrupting the earth’s natural systems to Plan B. Plan B is a comprehensive plan for reversing the trends that are fast undermining our future. Its four overriding goals are to stabilize climate, stabilize population, eradicate poverty, and restore the earth’s damaged ecosystems. This includes a plan to cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2020. As founder and president, Lester Brown says, “Failure to reach any one of these goals will likely mean failure to reach the others as well.”
EPI’s objectives are (1) to provide analyses on how the world is progressing toward environmental sustainability, (2) to draw the attention of the media and policymakers to the process of implementing a Plan B economy and provide examples of how this can be done, and (3) to use its analyses to inspire change at all levels.
EPI works at the global level simply because the solutions cannot be implemented in isolation. To reach its global constituency, EPI has built a powerful information dissemination model capitalizing on the synergies between its worldwide network of book publishers, the communications media, and the Internet.
To date, EPI has published six books, including two major revisions of Plan B, first published in 2003. It has also released dozens of Plan B Updates and a set of 12 Eco-Economy Indicators. In addition to English, EPI’s books are being published in all the world's major languages (those spoken by 50 million people or more) which include Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Russian, and Thai. There are three English editions, U.S./Canada, UK/Commonwealth, and India/South Asia, and two Chinese editions, mainland and Taiwan. Among the minor language editions are Catalan, Danish, Esperanto, Hungarian, Norwegian, Swedish, Bulgarian, and Romanian.
Everything it publishes is available for free on its website.
