To ballast R. Brown

Lester Russell Brown (born in 1934) is a Agroéconomiste and American environmental analyst. Pioneer of research on the Sustainable development, it was one of the first, and most prolific, to write on the problems involved in the ecology.

He is the founder of the institute Worldwatch as well as Earth Policy Institute, governmental organization based in Washington D.C., from which he is currently the president.

Although he wrote more than twenty works, Lester Brown is known mainly for her books “ Plan B 2.0: Rescuing has Planet Under Stress and has Civilization in Disorder. , (" rescue of a planet under pressure and a Civilization in crise") ” and “ Eco-economy: Another growth is possible, ecological and durable ”.

With publications represented in more than forty languages, it is one of the author-essay writers most largely diffused in the world. To ballast R. Brown was described besides by the Washington Post as being " one of the most influential thinkers of our époque".

Jean-Louis Borloo, Minister French for Ecology, the Development and Installation Durable, recognizes explicitly that Lester R. Brown is one of the independent sources of inspiration of work of the " Grenelle of Environnement".

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