Center for Environment and Population | In the News - The Center for Environment and Population (CEP) is an independent, non-profit research, policy and advocacy organization that addresses the relationship between human population, resource consumption, and the natural environment. Through groundbreaking resource materials and strategically planned activities, the Center strengthens the scientific basis of policies and advocacy to achieve a long-term sustainable balance between people and the natural environment.


Science, Policy, and Advocacy on Population and the Environment

The Center for Environment and Population (CEP) appears frequently in the news - in local community, to national and international print and broadcast traditional media, and social media including regular blogs:

- See "Women in the World Summit 2013 and Spring 2013 Texas campus event in Gates Foundation "Impatient Optimists" blog here and RH Reality Check blog here.

- See "Wanted: New Campions for Family Planning" and "Grassroots: Voices, Stories of Women in the Developing World" blogs in Gates Foundation's Impatient Optimists site, Fall 2012.

- UN Rio+20 CEP events, press release, fact sheet

CEP attended the UN Rio+20 meeting in June, 2012 to advocate on the issues of women and population/reproductive health as relate to sustainable development, the environment, and climate change. See CEP's Press Release, side-events, and new Fact Sheet here!

More CEP at Rio+20 news coverage: Tides Center, Planetwire, Treehugger

- World at 7 Billion Population and CEP coverage:

AlterNet online publication: "7 Billion and Counting: Welcome to a Planet With Population Overload and Resources in Crisis: less to do with the raw numbers of people than their relationship with the planet's sustainable resources", with National Geographic visuals.
CEP Press Release: "7 Billion World Population and Implications for Women, Environment" (For Release: Fall 2011)
RH Reality Check Blog: "The Significance of 7 Billion World Population for Women and the Environment"
Women Make News.com Blog: "7 Billion: Important Milestone for Women and the Environment"
CEP Radio Interviews on 7 Billion: WKCT, & more, Fall 2011
New York Times, Letter to the Editor on Wangari Maathai, women and development, Sept 29, 2011

Announcement: Green Belt Movement Website Events "Connecting Local to Global: Women, Climate Change and Conservation"

- Planetwire

- Invitation/Agenda
RH Reality Check Blog "By The Numbers: Population, Consumption, and Reproductive Health" August 2011
RH Reality Check Blog "New UN Population Report Reveals Planet Changing in More Ways Than One" May 2011
Local community news: "NGO Has Work Down to a Science", May 2011

"The World at 7 Billion: What It Means for Women and the Environment" - Grassroots Public Event, May 2011

Future Choices.net

Mamaroneck News

UN MDG Side-Event: "Population & Environment: Linking MDGs 5 and 7" - September 2010
- Planetwire
CEP Population, Climate Change, Environment Fellowship Program - Summer 2010
- U. Colorado Blog
- RH Reality Check

Interactive Map: "U.S. Population & Climate Change"
- New Security Beat

Sec. Clinton's Speech & the Environment

Copenhagen: Population and Climate Change Blog

"U.S. Population, Energy & Climate Change" report

"U.S. National Report on Population and the Environment"

Other links on the National Report

"U.S. State Reports": New Hampshire State Report on Population and the Environment

More CEP Press Coverage
- Wilton Bulletin
- Environmental Health Perspectives

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RH Reality Check Blog "New UN Population Report Reveals Planet Changing in More Ways Than One" May 2011