Resources
General resources including audio clips, articles, books, films, podcasts and videos relating to population and progress. *Tip: To more easily search through the list use Ctrl+F*
Audio:
- NPR story: Population Growth on the Leonard Lopate Show – Link
- NPR story: Visualizing How A Population Grows To 7 Billion – Link
Article:
- Billion-Dollar MegaProjects That Will Transform NYC By 2030 – Link
- Climate Central – Reports on the facts related to our changing climate and its impact on the American public – Link
- Foreign Affairs: The Dying Bear – Case study of Russia and its shrinking population. – Link
- Foreign Affairs: The economic connection to pop. growth. – Link
- Foreign Affairs: The New Pop. Bomb – Effects on international security and foreign affairs. – Link
- How youth view the 21st century in their hometown – Link
- Huffington Post: Pop. bulge in India – Effects on it’s economy. – Link
- LA Times: Beyond 7 Billion Series – Articles, blogs, multimedia resources. – Link
- Lexicon of Food – Multimedia articles on all food-related issues and ideas – Link
- MinnPost – Report on Twin Cities decreasing pop. growth – Link
- National Geographic – Effects of urbanization and pop. growth on the environment. – Link
- National Geographic Special Series: 7 Billion – Link
- National Geographic – Why population matters politically, socially, economically. – Link
- New Yorker – Billions and Billions – What this means in historical and contemporary contexts. – Link
- NPR: Population hitting 7 billion – Link
- NPR 7 Billion Series/Multimedia – Link
- NYT – Garment Workers in Bangladesh Demand Higher Wages – Link
- The Population Problem – Effects on economy, agriculture and well-being – Link
- Think Progress: Human and Environmental Progress – Rio+20 – New metrics to measure progress. – Link
- Time Magazine – Is GDP an Obsolete Measure of Progress? – Link
- United Nations Conference on Climate Change – Articles, videos, and photojournalism on the issues and the Paris conference itself – Link
- WSJ – Latinos – Growing Hispanic pop. in the U.S. – Link
- Yale Environment 360: What if experts are wrong? – Analysis of population data – Link
Book:
- “How’s Life? Measuring well-being”: OECD book about the social, economic, and political aspects of progress. – Link
- “Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics” – Link
- “World Population Policies: Their Origin, Evolution, and Impact”: The history of population policies. – Link
Film:
- Documentary about 7 Billion and its consequences. – Link
- One Day on Earth – participants across the world filming stories for their future- Link
- View Change – using the power of film to tell stories about real people and progress in global development. Choose from a large selection of documentaries – Link
Photo:
- Conversations with the Earth: Indigenous Voices on Climate Change – multimedia, photo and video stories from around the world – Link
- Foods that families from around the world eat – Link
- The Places We Live – online multimedia exhibition of photographs that document life in urban slums and the effects of rural-to-urban migration – Link
Podcast:
- Interviews with experts; effects on health, environment, development, and other issues. – Link
- Pop. growth and the role of the international donor community. – Link
- Population health, how to measure health quality of entire populations. – Link
- Population Institute – Focusing on family planning and pop. growth. – Link
- Public health seminar series, relates to pop. growth and progress. – Link
- Yale Univ. – Fertility, pop. growth, demographics, and pop. policy. – Link
Video:
- 7 Billion, effects on modernization, health care, and other issues. – Link
- 7 Billion others project – Link
- Crossroads Project – Using Performance Art to Explore Humanity’s Growing Sustainability and its Quest for a Response – Link
- Discovery Channel – Intersection of pop. growth and energy demand. – Link
- Environmental problems, implications for U.S. Policy. (Series) – Link
- Exit (Terre Natale) – Population Delta – Link
- Exit (Terre Natale) – Population Shift – Link
- Gapminder (Hans Rosling) videos and infographics – “A Fact-Based Worldview” – Link
- Infographic – 7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast? – Link
- Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies. – Link (Part I) Link (Part II)
- Media that Matters – Accessible videos tackling complex global issues – Link
- NPR Planet Money – Bangladesh Garment Workers – Link
- PBS interviews and programs about world population. – Link
- Progress of all countries through income and overall health – Link
- Question Bridges – U.S. Black Male Idenity Project – Link
- Recycled Musical Instruments – Link
- TED talk – Global pop. growth and the data. – Link
- U.S. population growth and its demographic breakdown. – Link
Website
- Urban Survivors – a multimedia project by Doctors without Borders highlighting the humanitarian and medical needs of seven of the world’s biggest slums – Link