Publications from Assisi Nature Council

Active expressive participatory Environmental Education with Young Children, Ray Lorenzo, Assisi Nature Council library of Environmental education and Ethics, Assisi, 1987( reviewed 2007).

Sacred Spaces : beyond the concept of resources' exploitation, Conference Report 1992.

Towards the Third Millennium, Document of the International Seminar "Terra Mater", Gubbio 1992.

Un Giardino dei Semplici , Maria Luisa Cohen, Domizia Donnini and the School S.Antonio, Assisi Nature Council, Library of Environmental education and Ethics.

Manifesto for Gardens of the Third Millennium, Assisi 1998. (featured in the website)

International Conference: Gardens for the Third Millennium, from the Garden of Eden to Urban Paradise, Assisi 1998, Perugia University Press, 2000.

Simbolismo delle piante e giardini, by Maria Luisa Cohen, Assisi Nature Council Library of Environmental Education and Ethics 2006

Analisi Botanica di un Territorio collinare finalizzata alla realizzazione di un giardino per le farfalle diurne, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Corso di Laurea in science Naturali, Daniela Deminco e Daniela Gigante, 2004/2005 (featured in the website)

Utilizzo gastronomico delle piante selvatiche mediterranee del Monte Subasio, by Maria Luisa Cohen, Library of Environmental Education and Ethics 2006

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ENS World News

C2NN

Google Alert on "Peak Oil"

Our most important reference is:

The Optimum Population Trust UK
www.optimumpopulation.org
with which we wish to develop closer relation and exchange projects

Earth Policy Institute
www.earth-policy.org

ECO - The Campaign for Political Ecology
eco.gn.apc.org

EcoFuture, Dedicated to sustainability and the ecological future of our planet
www.ecofuture.org

ECOPOP
www.ecopop.ch

EnviroLink Network(An on-line information resource on environmental issuess)
www.envirolink.org/

National Audubon Society's Population & Habitat Campaign,
Supports voluntary family planning as a key element in conserving and restoring natural ecosystems.
www.audubonpopulation.org

People and the Planet
www.peopleandplanet.net

Popline, the world's largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related health issues
www.jhuccp.org/popline

Population Action International
www.populationaction.org

Population Connection
info@populationconnection.org

Population Growth over Human History
www.globalchange.umich.edu

Population Media Center
www.populationmedia.org

Population Reference Bureau
www.prb.org

Sustainable Population Australia
www.population.org.au

UN Population Fund (UNFPA)
www.unfpa.org

UN Population Information Network (POPIN):
www.un.org/popin

Union of Concerned Scientists, working for a healthy environment and a safer world.
www.ucsusa.org

Worldwatch Institute
www.worldwatch.org

World Overpopulation Awareness (WOA)
www.overpopulation.org

World Population Clock
www.census.gov/main/www/popclock

BUTTERFLY WEBSITES ONLINE

from:
www.butterflyworld.com/links.html

'Hill House Publishers (Melbourne & London) publishers of fine books in
Natural History and science, authentic facsimiles of antiquarian works, maps and prints.
www.nhm.ac.uk/publishing/pubczoo.html

Butterflies of North America
The U.S. Geological Survey's guide to the butterflies of the US and northern Mexico, including a photographic identification guide, county checklists, and more. www.butterfliesandmoths.org

Monarch Watch
A website dedicated to the study of the monarch butterfly and its yearly migration.
www.monarchwatch.org

Where Do Butterflies Come From?
A simple guide from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, including a fun project for kids.
www.hhmi.org/coolscience/butterfly

Butterflies and Moths
Searchable database of generic names and type species. From The Natural History Museum, London.
www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/butmoth

NBII Children's Butterfly Site
Kids can learn all about butterflies and moths at this site. It includes a coloring page with the life cycle of the Monarch, and a gallery of pictures.
www.bsi.montana.edu/web/kidsbutterfly

Yukon Butterflies - butterfly activities and lessons
Watch an on-line metamorphosis and learn about the life-cycle of the Painted Lady Butterfly. Developed by Yukon Grade three classes complete with activities....
www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/jackhulland/ projects/butterflies/observations/webcam/index.html

Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center(Colorado)
At our 30,000 square foot facility, 250,000 people a year (including 35,000 children), explore a tropical rainforest with 1,200 free flying butterflies, hold a friendly tarantula and enjoy a hands-on experience of the world of invertebrates.
www.colorado.com/listing

What is a Butterfly? -- A comprehensive on-line hypertext book about butterflies. It is designed for people of all ages and levels of comprehension.
www.enchantedlearning.com/ subjects/butterflies/allabout

Field Museum Butterfly Collection -- A well-crafted guidebookwith common questions and answers.
www.fieldmuseum.org/butterfly/default.htm

Missouri Botanical Garden Butterfly House -- Garden in St. Louis renowned for its fundamental botanical research, horticultural displays and education programs.
Includes a butterfly house.
www.butterflyhouse.org

Insects.org Bug Bios
A butterfly wing pattern module of Class Insecta!
www.insects.org

& more:

Adopt-An-Insect Project, was developed to explore the world of insects at Havana Junior High School.
The project pages includes procedures, objectives, lesson plans, and an assortment of links.
Sciencespot.net/Pages/adtinspg.html

Butterfly World's Bring Back the Butterflies campaign is a North American effort to help people bring large numbers of butterflies back to our landscape. It is a call for people across the Continental United States and Canada to build a small garden in an effort to reverse the ongoing destruction of butterfly habitat in their local area. www.butterflyworld.com/campaign.html

Butterfly Gardening, your guide to creating and maintaining a backyard wildlife habitat.
www.backyardwildlifehabitat.info/butterflygardening.htm

Butterfly Gardening 
A butterfly garden is an easy way to both see more butterflies and to contribute towards their conservation, since many natural butterfly habitats have been lost to urbanization and other development…
www.butterfly--garden.com/

Captain’s European Butterfly Guide: There are approximately 440 species of Butterfly in Europe and North Africa. I have seen but a small part of them but hope eventually to come across most of them and perhaps include them in these pages, currently there are 263 species included.
www.butterfly-guide.co.uk

The Swallowtail Butterfly in Italy,The Queen Butterfly of Italian Gardens: One of the most spectacular sights in Italian gardens has to be the European swallowtail butterfly flitting, effortlessly over lavender, buddleja, valerian or any other nectar-providing flower…
www.lifeinitaly.com/garden/swallowtail-butterfly.asp

HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants, Natural History Museum, brings together an enormous body of information on what the world's butterfly and mth (Lepidoptera) caterpillars eat.
www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/hostplants/

The subject of overpopulation and its consequences on the environment and on our lives are confined to the rarified sphere of academia , research institutes , world institutions and the internet, while its wider dissemination in the public media and therefore in the people’s consciousness, is missing.

We aim at correcting such mysterious absence from the public debate, presenting here some articles and documentation regarding what we consider one of the most important issues of our time, overpopulation.

Reconsidering population growth
A round-table discussion on the economic, financial and environmental implications of over-population.
Optimum Population Trust, London 15 February 2006
The prospect of population decline: environmental relief or economic threat?
D.A. Coleman University of Oxford
david.coleman@socres.ox.ac.uk
http://www.apsoc.ox.ac.uk/oxpop

"Science Summit" On World Population
A Joint Statement by 58 of the World's Scientific Academies
www.interacademies.net

Population and Its Discontents
Vision for a Sustainable World
Excerpted from the September/October 2004 WORLDWATCH magazine
Special online feature on population at
www.worldwatch.org/features/population/

Global and Local Solutions to Population Growth
SUSP
www.susps.org/overview/solutions.html
http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/lectures/461

Population size 'Green priority'
By Richard Black
Environment Correspondent, BBC News website
Solving the Earth's environmental problems means addressing the size of its human population, says the head of the UK's Antarctic research agency.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4585920.stm

The Fewer the Better
David Nicholson-Lord
8 November 2004-New Statesman.
www.newstatesman.com/writers/david_nicholson-lord

Peak Oil, Carrying Capacity and Overshoot:
Population, the Elephant in the Room.
What Drives Population - Food or Energy?
Population Decline - Red Herrings and Hope
By Paul Chefurka: www.paulchefurka.ca

From The Life And Death Of Nssm 200
How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy
mumford@population-security.org

Overpopulation & Terrorism: Rats In A Cage
by John Omaha
www.culturechange.org/issue19/overpop_terrorism.htm

Implying That 6.5 Billion Is Sustainable?
Birth rates 'must be curbed to win war on global poverty'
news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2201090.ece
31 January 2007

See also:

PRESIDENT NIXON'S SPECIAL MESSAGE ON POPULATION
to the Congress on Problems of Population Growth," July 18, 1969, entitled "World Population, A Challenge to the United Nations and Its System of Agencies."
www.population-security.org

THE ROCKEFELLER COMMISSION ON POPULATION GROWTH,1972,
on nearly 50 areas of policy and action, including sex education, equal rights for women, contraception and minors, voluntary sterilization, abortion, and population stabilization.
www.population-security.org/rockefeller/


Online Videos

Arithmetic, Population and Energy
By Dr. Albert Bartlett. Both video and MP3 available.
albert.bartlett@colorado.edu

http://globalpublicmedia.com/lectures/461
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY

Professor Bartlett lectures regularly to a wide variety of audiences from coast to coast on the topics such as “Sustainability 101: Arithmetic, Population, and Energy.”
In 37 years he has given this lecture over 1600 times.

A one-hour DVD of this lecture is available from the General Book Department of the University of Colorado Bookstore, Campus Box 36
Boulder, Colorado, 80309-0036; Phone (303) 492-7599; FAX (303) 492-0420; 
www.CUBookstore.COM
Price: $12 plus $7.50 for shipping and handling.
(Prof. Bartlett accepts no royalties from the sales of these DVDs.)
A reprint book of Prof. Bartlett’s papers on the subjects of growth and sustainability is available.
“The Essential Exponential” (2004)
A.A. Bartlett, R.G. Fuller, V.L.P. Clark, J. Rogers
Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 68588-0131
(402) 472-9304, www.unl.edu/scimath/exponential
(Prof. Bartlett accepts no royalties from the sale of these books.)

6.6 Billion and Counting

The human population is now more than 6.6 billion, and each year 78 million more people are added to that number. When will the world be ready to acknowledge the importance of this issue?

In our special fall campaign, we at the Worldwatch Institute are raising $30,000 to expand the breadth and scope of our work on reproductive health and population. We have eight days to raise enough money to call attention to what many of you have called "the elephant in the room."

Continued growth in human numbers is greatly complicating efforts to stabilize concentrations of greenhouse gases. It also contributes to a lack of clean water, exploited natural resources, and high proportions of young people who lack meaningful prospects in countries with rapidly growing populations.

Your contribution of $35, $50, $100, $250, or more will make this critical work possible.

While many other organizations shy away from the subject, Worldwatch is working to bring attention to the population issue in sensitive and constructive ways. For example, many leaders still don't understand that as many as two in five pregnancies worldwide aren't intended or welcomed—a problem that can be addressed with education and the provision of basic reproductive health services. But we need your help! Your contribution of $35, $50, $100, $250, or more will make this critical work possible.

You will get the biggest bang for your buck. Three generous Friends of Worldwatch have pledged a dollar-for-dollar match of up to $15,000, so your gift will have twice the impact!

If population is such a serious issue, why isn't every mainstream environmental organization talking about it?

Since its founding just four years after the first Earth Day in 1970, Worldwatch has presented human population as a critical force to be understood and addressed in building sustainable societies. Over the past seven years, the U.S. government has reduced its support of international family planning, heightening the need for organizations like Worldwatch to tackle this critical issue.

The Institute's focus on population—rare among environmental groups and unique within environmental research—has been expressed in our books, Worldwatch Papers, State of the World chapters, and even in the hiring of specific researchers dedicated to the topic. While we haven't focused on population as much as we'd like to in recent years, we want to change that.

But we can only do it with your help. Your voice is crucial in setting the agenda for our research. Let us know how much you care about this issue by making a gift today.

Can I count on you?

Sincerely,

Christopher Flavin
President

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