Learn With Your Fellow Members

We have an abundance of resources for supporters to expand their population knowledge along with virtual opportunities to get involved with our work. From webinars, quarterly magazines, book club discussions, and blog posts, learn more about how you can join us in taking steps toward global population stabilization.

Book Club Discussion

Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It by Samuel Miller McDonald

Progress has built cities, flattened mountains, charted the globe, delved into the oceans and space, created wealth, opportunity, and remarkable innovation, and ushered in a new epoch unique in our planet’s 4.5-billion-year history.

But the modern story of progress is also a very dangerous fiction. It shapes our sense of what progress means, and justifies what we will do to achieve it—no matter the cost. The book calls attention to how we continue to subscribe to a set of ideas about dominion, growth, extraction, and expansion. Yet these same ideas that have fueled our success now threaten the existence of all species on a planet in crisis.

Geographer Samuel Miller McDonald offers a new perspective on the myths upon which the modern world is built, highlighting its destructive lineage and proposing an urgent alternative.

*We don’t record book club meetings, so tune in live, if you can, to catch the discussions!

Date: Thursday, November 19th
Time: 4:00 pm ET/1:00 pm PT

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Find the book on bookshop.org

2026: A Year of Impact

A discussion with the senior staff of Population Connection

Close out the year with our annual year-end event, showcasing our organization’s most noteworthy accomplishments in 2026. Senior staff will take us through our achievements and progress, all made possible by our incredible network of supporters!

Our Population Education program supported hundreds of K-12 educators to help prepare the next generation of decision-makers to think critically about how population trends affect global issues. In addition, our Population Studies for Higher Education gave dozens of presentations to college and university classes across the US, highlighting the connections between population, health, environment, and sustainable development.

We widely distributed our quarterly magazine, Population Connection, and mailed each issue to every member of Congress. Our media outreach efforts to combat misleading headlines were persistent, with several letters to the editor published in news outlets, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.

Through our Global Partner Initiative, we’ve expanded support from 19 to 24 organizations across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We continue to invest in community-based organizations working at the intersections of girls’ education, conservation, voluntary family planning, and comprehensive reproductive health care.

We invite you to join us for the presentation to dive deeper into a year of impactful work. Together, we will celebrate our collective progress in 2026!

Date: Wednesday, December 9th
Time: 2:00 pm ET/11:00 am PT

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Last year we packed the calendar with incredible virtual events, hosting Global Partners and other experts in the fields of conservation, population issues, sustainable development, and women’s empowerment. Speakers based around the world joined us through Zoom to share their work and answer questions from attendees. Click the button below for recordings of the 2025 presentations, presentation slides, and answers to the Q+A sessions.

2026 Virtual Events Archive