Lester Brown, brief biography
Lester Brown, born in New Jersy on March 28, 1934, started his career as a farmer in southern New Jersey during high school and college. After earning a degree in agricultural science from Rutgers University in 1955, he spent six months living in rural India where he became intimately familiar with the food/population issue. In 1959 Brown joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service as an international agricultural analyst. In 1974, with support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Lester Brown founded the Worldwatch Institute, the first research institute devoted to the analysis of global environmental issues. While there he launched the Worldwatch Papers, the annual State of the World reports, World Watch magazine, a second annual entitled Vital Signs: The Trends That are Shaping Our Future, and the Environmental Alert book series. He is the recipient of many prizes and awards, including 24 honorary degrees. He is one of the world’s most widely published authors, has authored or coauthored fifty books and his books have appeared in some forty languages. The most famous of them is "Plan B".
The faces of the shift
