Our Mission:
is to help solve environmental and social problems by including population size in discussions of those problems.
We work to empower people to determine the best population size for their regions,
and to help implement steps towards reaching and maintaining those levels. Education is high in our
priorities.
By choosing now how many people our regions (and the Earth) should support, we can choose our
own future. If we continue to avoid the question, we will be pushed by biological and economic forces into
a future that could be pretty dismal.
Part of our role at HowMany.org is to help remove the
obstacles that keep the question, "how many", from being seriously and rationally
discussed, and to help develop the steps
necessary to move toward those goals.
HowMany.org raises public awareness by:
- Exploring the links between population growth and environmental stories such as
global warming, suburban sprawl, water rights, species extinction, and energy consumption
- Channeling funding toward education and research about population and the environment
- Encouraging and facilitating popular discussion of how population and the
environment interact
Who we are:
Searle Whitney
HowMany.org founder Searle Whitney graduated cum laude from Yale University and
holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University in psychology. He has worked in diverse
fields including landscaping, software development, and publishing. He has a
longtime interest in nature, the environment, and social justice. His current
passions include oldtime and bluegrass music.
Chris Flood
Chris Flood brings diverse leadership and development experience to HowMany.org.
He was the founding Executive Director of City Year Louisiana from 2005 to 2008,
and worked previously
at City Year Philadelphia. At both organizations, he developed highly successful
strategic communications and fund development plans and now brings this experience
to HowMany.org. He currently serves on the board of Leadership High School in San
Francisco and has served on the board of the New Orleans Kids Partnership and the
Enhance Capital Development Corporation and worked at City Year Greater Philadelphia,
where he recruited, taught, and led corps members. He has a Masters degree in City
Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Swarthmore College.
Mary Garvey
Mary Garvey is a freelance administrative specialist who has worked with
Howmany.org since it's inception. She is committed to the idea that
population studies can lead to meaningful solutions to global problems.
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In the News
The Coming Famine by Julian Cribb book review-Aug, 2010
Cribb says we've passed peak oil, water, fertilizer and land;
he argues for more technological research and eating lower on
the food chain. He does not mention stabilizing population
(at least this reviewer does not note it).
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[ archive]
Risks of Deep Water Drilling 2010/08/30
Population pressure forces us to take risks we cannot control with deeper and
more complex drilling worldwide.
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Pakistan: Drowning today, Parched tomorrow 2010/08/16
Pakistan's fast-growing population has a very
uncertain outlook for future water supply. Sharing the waters
of the Indus River is a major source of conflict between Pakistan and India.
The U.S. may support a $12 billion agricultural and hydroelectric project.
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Downward Spiral of Hasty Population Growth July, 2010
More frequent need to rebuild roads, bridges, schools undercuts the economics of raising
population to offset future shortage of younger workers. Jane O'Sullivan article about
Australia applies to other nations that rely on high
population growth and high GDP growth.
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[ archive]
Four Urban Growth Boundary measures: on November ballots.
Establish boundary in Cloverdale.
Renew Petaluma's and Santa Rosa's.
Defend San Ramon's.
[ Greenbelt Alliance's] campaign.
The Population Problem is falling Births!!! July, 2010
It is amazing how some news sources report on population.
With population growth as the prime mover behind
28 environmental and social ills,
from traffic to world-wide hunger to "ethnic cleansing", they report on possibe
shortages of workers in 20 years although worker productivity is rising.
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China's Instant Cities 07/2010
Pictures and comments on China's booming construction. "Industry has long been yoked to
visions of utopia, but also ... the toxic emissions,
rising temperatures and habitat fragmentation associated with unchecked growth"
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Water Dispute Increases India - Pakistan Tension July, 2010
Sharing a major river, both countries have large and growing populations
and both need a population policy so that they can live comfortably with the resources available to them.
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Population surge outstrips efforts to eradicate slums
227 million people escaped slum conditions between 2000 and 2010. However, due to population increase
and urban migration the number of slum dwellers increased from 776 million to 827 million.
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Teen pregnancy fashion?
Will trendy advertising
for cute pregnancy clothes encourage teenage girls to think it's cool to be pregnant?
"Forever 21" with 400 stores and 12,000 employees just introduced such a line.
Call their corporate offices 213-741-5100 (& 888-494-3837)
and let them know what you think.
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Climate Change:
Calling Planet Birth
Family size is the great unmentionable in the campaign for more environmentally friendly lifestyles.
Having 1 less child in the US would reduce carbon emissions 19 times more than
all the E.P.A.'s recommended actions combined. -
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Gulf Oil Spill 2010: The burgeoning population forces us to take
the unknown risks of drilling in mile-deep ocean. Here are two
of many stories about the debacle:
Oil Hit Home- Arc of Frustration in Louisiana- May, 2010 - [ article]
The Critics Deconstructed Intersting article about the attacks against population activists,
and the need for population awareness
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The Last Taboo What unites the Vatican, lefties, conservatives,
environmentalists and scientists in a conspiracy of silence?
Read
The Last Taboo
by Julia Whitty in the June 2010 issue of
Mother Jones: "Who's to Blame for the Population Crisis?"
Drop in Birthrates in 2008 is Linked to Recession -Apr 2010
Population growth is not inevitable. When incentives favor postponing having children,
many people do.
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Smart Growth? the smart alternative is No Growth
Although city planners are trained to call some patterns of growth 'smart',
in many areas the only truely smart alternative is No Growth
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Parting the Waters - mid-East wars over Water Rights - March 31, 2010.
30 of the 37 Wars over Water in the past 60 years involve Israel and its neighbors.
Fewer people living in these desert regions would leave more water per person. This should
inform the population policies of all countries involved.
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Florida's "Hometown Democracy" amendment - Blocking Build-Build-Builders.
September 27, 2009 - Orlando Sentinel .
Our development pandemic threatens the economy as much as the environment. Building more
houses when the number of buyers has not increased deflates the value of houses that is going
to linger for years and years.
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A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice & The Environmental Challenge
Dec 23,2009 This new book compiled by Laurie Mazur discusses environmental issues as they affect
equality, justice and sustainability. Regarding the UN's low and high estimates for World
population in 2050 "if we take seriously the twin imperatives of sustainablilty and equity, it
becomes clear that it would be easier to provide a good life - at less environmental cost - for
8 rather than almost 11 billion people."
[ Press Release]
[Past News Articles]
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