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Economist: Fewer feet, smaller footprint

This article discussed the Bixby publication The Impact of Population Growth on Tomorrow’s World a special theme issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

AFP: Population growth driving climate change, poverty: experts

This article discusses the Bixby publication The Impact of Population Growth on Tomorrow’s World a special theme issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

Scientific American: Is birth control the answer to environmental ills?

This article discusses the Bixby publication The Impact of Population Growth on Tomorrow’s World a special theme issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Bixby Center Featured in Foreign Policy Magazine

The Bixby Center’s infographic “Sex Matters,” which explores contaception and family planning in different parts of the world, has been published in Foreign Policy Magazine. The piece argues that “Low birthrates aren’t a consequence of national wealth; rather, they’re needed to create it.”

LA Times Op-Ed: The war for Afghanistan’s women

There are two wars going on in Afghanistan. One is to defeat the Taliban, and that war is not going well. The other is to liberate women, and that war has hardly begun.

The Monthly: Burden of Billions

Two’s company, but 6.8 billion’s a crowd. Enough already, say two renowned U.C. Berkeley researchers who are reviving a controversial crusade to stem population growth. The movement is more important now than ever, say Drs. Malcolm Potts and Martha Campbell, for the future health of our planet. But it’s key, they believe, that women are given the option (not the mandate) to choose smaller families. By Noelle Robbins in the monthly July 2009

The Daily Californian: ‘Sex and Sustainability’ Event Mixes Art and Development

The graduate student group Bixby Youth in Action, along with the Sierra Club, sponsored “Sex and Sustainability,” an event that examined the connection between population, poverty and women’s empowerment through a series of art pieces by UC Berkeley students.

San Francisco Chronicle: Population growth grant for Cal school

A $15 million grant has been awarded to UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health to study the impact of the world’s population growth on the global environment, international conflict and public health.

San Francisco Chronicle: Why can’t we prevent more childbirth deaths? Blame abortion politics

Nana’s story is the kind that makes Berkeley residents Martha Campbell and Dr. Malcolm Potts throw their hands up in frustration. Not because it’s common. Because it’s unnecessary. There’s a cheap, easy-to-use, safe and effective drug to prevent and treat obstetric bleeding: misoprostol. Bixby Chair Malcolm Potts