Lester R. Brown

Cambridge Forum, with the help of Tim Weiskel and an anonymous Friend of Cambridge Forum, is pleased to present internationally renowned environmentalist LESTER BROWN. Brown has been assessing the health of the earth’s ecosystems for more than two decades.  Over that time he has seen increasing signs of break-down until we are now facing issues of near-overwhelming complexity and unprecedented urgency. Can we change direction before we go over the edge? In his new book World on the Edge, Brown attempts to answer that question by systemically laying out both challenges and potential policy solutions.

“Lester Brown is one of the pioneers and heroes of global environmentalism. If the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize had been extended to a third recipient, the logical candidate would have been Lester Brown.” — E. O. Wilson